Focus On Cocaine And Crack

Discusses how cocaine and crack affect the mind and body and presents a brief history of cocaine use.

Discusses how cocaine and crack affect the mind and body and presents a brief history of cocaine use.

The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.

Examines the problems associated with the use of crack and other forms of cocaine, focusing on the mental and psychological disorders that can occur.

This book presents an historical overview of heroin use in the USA, as well as articles by experts in the field which focus on current developments and emerging trends in prevention, treatment, distribution and consumption. Filling a void in the literature on what is known about the `new' heroin users, this volume also updates the reader on the status of ageing heroin-addicted populations who initiated use of the drug prior to the `age of cocaine'.