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The Cocaine Crisis

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. David F. Allen

    1. National Drug Council, Nassau, Bahamas

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introductory Chapters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • David F. Allen
      Pages 3-5

    3. History of Cocaine

      • David F. Allen
      Pages 7-13

    4. Modes of use, Precursors, and Indicators of Cocaine Abuse

      • David F. Allen
      Pages 15-26

    5. The Implications of Crack

      • Sidney Cohen
      Pages 27-30

  3. The Consumer Society: The American Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Cocaine: The American Experience

      • Elaine M. Johnson
      Pages 33-44

    3. Cocaine: Drug Epidemic of the ‘80’s

      • Arnold M. Washton
      Pages 45-63

    4. The Self-Medication Hypothesis of Addictive Disorders: Focus on Heroin and Cocaine Dependence

      • Edward J. Khantzian
      Pages 65-74

    5. Psychotherapy for Cocaine Abusers

      • Kathleen M. Carroll, Daniel S. Keller, Lisa R. Fenton, Frank Gawin
      Pages 75-105

    6. Public Health Approaches to the Cocaine Problem: Lessons from the Bahamas

      • James F. Jekel
      Pages 107-116

  4. The Trans-Shipment Societies: The Caribbean Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. The Bahamas and Drug Abuse

      • Brian G. Humblestone, David F. Allen
      Pages 119-123

    3. Epidemic Freebase Cocaine Abuse: A Case Study from the Bahamas

      • James F. Jekel, David F. Allen, Henry Podlewski, Nelson Clarke, Sandra Dean-Patterson, Paul Cartwright
      Pages 125-132

    4. Drug Abuse 1975–1985: Clinical Perspectives of the Bahamian Experience of Illegal Substances

      • Nelson A. Clarke
      Pages 133-138

    5. Cocaine Psychosis

      • Theo Manschrek
      Pages 139-144

    6. Cocaine and the Bahamian Woman: Treatment Issues

      • Sandra Dean-Patterson
      Pages 145-159

    7. Treatment Approaches to Cocaine Abuse and Dependency in The Bahamas

      • Timothy McCartney, Michael Neville
      Pages 161-165

    8. Cocaine Update

      • Michael H. Beaubrun
      Pages 167-173
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About this book

Proceedings of a conference of experts on cocaine addiction, this early volume documents the devastating effects of crack, then a new cocaine preparation, and its extraordinary addicting properties. The Bahamian experience with crack provided an early warning about the extreme personal and social dangers of this drug .

Reviews

`Excellent professional survey of crack and cocaine addiction'
Joseph Schulman (Oxford, MD USA), September 11, 1997

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Drug Council, Nassau, Bahamas

    David F. Allen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Cocaine Crisis

  • Editors: David F. Allen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1837-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42482-3Due: 01 January 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9026-1Published: 22 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-1837-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 242

  • Topics: Public Health, Behavioral Sciences

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