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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Coca to Cocaine: A Historical Overview -- THE FIRST COCAINE CRAZE -- FEDERAL REGULATION OF COCAINE -- THE SECOND COCAINE CRAZE -- CHAPTER 2 From Leaf to Street -- DRUG CARTELS -- METHODS OF USE -- REASONS FOR USE -- SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF USE -- CHAPTER 3 Addiction and Treatment -- HOW COCAINE WORKS ON THE BODY -- FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO COCAINE ADDICTION -- TREATMENTS FOR COCAINE ADDICTION -- CHAPTER 4 Cocaine and the Law -- CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES -- DRUG LAWS -- Age -- Severity of the Crime -- The State in Which a Person Is Convicted -- THE CRACK VERSUS POWDER COCAINE CONTROVERSY -- CHAPTER 5 Cocaine's Cost to Society -- CRIME-RELATED COSTS OF DRUG ABUSE TO SOCIETY -- HEALTH CARE COSTS -- THE COSTS OF COCAINE REHABILITATION PROGRAMS -- CHAPTER 6 Cocaine and the Media -- THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND COCAINE RAP -- FASHION, BEAUTY, AND COCAINE -- MOVIES AND COCAINE -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- FOR MORE INFORMATION -- WEB SITES -- FOR FURTHER READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PHOTO CREDITS

AbstractThis study estimates the impact of the discretionary Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program (EBMGP) on drug arrests and crime. The 1986 and 1988 Anti‐Drug Abuse Act allocated federal funds to state and local municipalities to combat illicit drug use and violent crime associated with drug sales and trafficking. The results show that the implementation of the EBMGP resulted in an increase in police hiring, an increase in drug sales arrest rates for Blacks and Whites, and a decrease in total crime. Nonetheless, Black‐White racial disparity in the drug sales arrest rate still significantly increases by approximately 1 for every 1,000 Black residents. Our findings highlight the role of federal crime control policies in state and local policing. Although, the EBMGP was a color‐blind policy initiative, it was not race neutral in its implementation.

During the 1990s, the drug problem in Sweden stabilized in spite of a heroin wave on the European continent & in the UK. The preconditions for this control policy are discussed, as are the advantages of the Swedish drug control model with its massive programs for prevention, treatment, & repression. In the 1980s, focus was on zero tolerance & dissociation of harm reduction activities in connection with the economic crisis. This resulted in a lessening of preventive measures & treatment in favor of strengthening police power in the drug control model. The change in focus toward an even more pronounced zero tolerance approach did not yield any visible results regarding drug use. Experimenting with drugs & heavy drug use increased considerably during the 1990s. 1 Figure, 28 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications, Inc.]

The Bush Administration's drug control strategy lacks an appreciation of the problem and the inability of current institutions and mechanisms to combat the problem effectively. The government is schizophrenic, treating the user as both victim and offender. Calls for universal tests, trails and sentences. (SJK)

Members of the Federation of Professional Bodies, Chamber of Advocates, Federation of Industries and the Caritas Association for Drug Prevention and Action participated at a Forum entitled "Medicines and Drugs on the Job''. This forum was organised by the Chamber of Pharmacists on the 16th June 1987, on the occasion of the Common wealth Pharmacy Day, which commemorated the holding of the first exploratory conference in London of the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association of which the Chamber of Pharmacists is a full member. ; N/A

This article draws on the findings of a research study conducted on behalf of the Directorate of Health Care of the Prison Service. The study involved conducting a needs analysis of drug misuse in three Leicestershire prisons. The aims of the project were: (i) to assess the level of drug misuse in three prison establishments; (ii) to assess the level of staff knowledge of drug misuse and staff management of drug misuse; (iii) to assess current staff training in drug misuse, and (iv) to explain how effective multi‐disciplinary working with prison staff and staff in community based facilities may be developed. The article presents some of the findings from the research which show how they have informed the current drug strategy while at the same time crucial findings and important issues have been sidelined. We will be arguing that the 1998 strategy is a small improvement on the previous policy but the continued emphasis on the supply side approach to tackling drug misuse will ultimately fail to reduce drug misuse in prison. Not only do we wish to question the approach which the strategy adopts but also whether or not the extent of the problem requires the level of response envisaged and the resources involved.

During the 1980s illegal drug use in Britain appeared to be increasing at an alarming rate and spreading across the country on an unprecedented scale. An apparent growth in the use of heroin caused particular concern: the number of known heroin addicts rose from just over two thousand in 1977 to more than ten thousand by 1987. Moreover, heroin use was being reported in urban areas throughout the country. This was in contrast to previous decades, when it was thought that drug use was largely confined to London. By 1985 the Conservative government was able to assert that "the misuse of drugs is one of the most worrying problems facing our society today." Growing fears about drug use prompted a flurry of activity from both central and local government, from law enforcement bodies, voluntary organizations, and health professionals.