1st Edition
A Very Greedy Drug Cocaine in Context
160 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 1997. This book sketches the recent history of the panic over cocaine in Britain, before reporting in-depth research on more than a hundred users in Scotland. This group contained all types of users, from casual users to heavy users who had cut down without problems, to people with multiple drug problems. The book considers why some people can give up cocaine and others become... Read more
"The Cocaine Crisis" of 1989, Cocaine Users in Reality, Cocaine Careers, Cocaine Use in a Local Context, "Different Cokes for Different Folks", Conclusion
Biography
Jason Ditton Scottish Centre for Criminology, Glasgow, UK. Richard Hammersley Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK, with Samuel Philips, Alasdair Forsyth and Furzana Khan for THE SCOTTISH COCAINE RESEARCH GROUP*
