Cocaine use in Britain has caused much concern but its extent has been unknown. Users are still quite affluent, but when cocaine hits street level - as it is predicted to do in the late 1990s - problems are likely to increase. This work sketches the recent history of the panic over cocaine in Britain, before reporting in-depth research on more than 100 users in Scotland. This group contained all types of users, from casual 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 addicted. It compares British users with those elsewhere in the world, showing that the effects are similar everywhere - cocaine does not addict most of its users. The picture of drug use obtained from addicts in clinics is a distorted one.
- ISBN10 3718659042
- ISBN13 9783718659043
- Publish Date 13 September 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 June 2013
- Publish Country CH
- Imprint Harwood-Academic Publishers
- Format Paperback
- Pages 200
- Language English