Cocaine Changes - The Experience of Using and Quitting

Over 200 in-depth interviews with heavy users document the dangers of cocaine, but the authors contend that the national hysteria over it is largely unfounded

List of contents

Acknowledgments 1. Changing Perspectives on Cocaine: An Introduction Part I: Using Cocaine 2. Getting into Coke: Initiation and Styles of Use 3. Things Go Better with Coke: The Uses of Cocaine 4. Cocaine at Work: A Case Study of "The Company" 5. Selling Cocaine: Drifting into Dealing 6. The Call of the Pipe: Crack Use and Freebasing 7. Controlled Users Part II: Having Trouble with Cocaine 8. Cocaine-Related Problems Part III: Quitting Cocaine 9. Quitting Cocaine: Motives, Strategies, and Actions 10. Making Sense of Cessation: A Synthesis Part IV: Conclusions 11. Ten Years After: Long-Term Impacts of Cocaine on a Small Network of Users 12. Coke and Culture Appendix: Study Background, Methods, and Sampling Notes References Index

About the author

Dan Waldorf is a Research Sociologist and Project Director at the Institute for Scientific Analysis.

Summary

The latest War on Drugs in the United States targeted cocaine and later crack as an "epidemic" sweeping the nation with tragic and irreversible effects. This title presents a study of heavy cocaine users in an effort to understand how they got started, their uses of cocaine, and the "natural" progression of use and abuse.

Product details

• Authors: Sheigla Murphy, Craig Reinarman, Dan Waldorf, Dan Waldrof
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.1992
• EAN: 9781566390132
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-013-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 141 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 406 g
• Series: Health Society And Policy; Health Society and Policy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)