Product Description: For every news story in the popular press detailing the horrors and the violence associated with cocaine, there have been corresponding studies in the medical litera­ ture shedding new light on our understanding of this most troublesome drug...read more

For pathologists, pharmacologists, drug abuse specialists and toxicologists, this book covers stimulant, opiate and steroid abuse. Each section includes a detailed discussion of how the drug came to be abused, how it is manufactured in clandestine laboratories, and how it is metabolized. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Representing the latest data from active research groups, The Neurobiology of Cocaine is designed to educate students and inform experts in a rapidly changing field. This volume presents current research regarding the mechanisms of cocaine's action in the brain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A straightforward guide to the dangers and addictiveness of cocaine includes the latest information on treating addiction

Product Description: Here is a valuable review of the current state of knowledge of medical and scientific effects associated with cocaine abuse. Cocaine: Physiological and Physiopathological Effects helps professionals identify and understand the health risks associated with cocaine use and their significance from both individual and public health perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A product of many years' work by researchers at the renowned Yale Substance Abuse Research Center, this volume constitutes a comprehensive resource on cocaine. Unusually coherent for an edited book, the volume's chapters reflect the contributors' long collaboration in making significant contributions to the field...read more

Product Description: Here is a timely volume that reviews the current state of knowledge of cocaine use. Some of the country’s leading authorities on cocaine use and abuse examine the pharmacology and neurochemistry of central stimulant abuse with a focus on the specific effects of cocaine...read more

Product Description: Medical Studies, Health Care

A comprehensive study of the pharmacology, history, and uses of cocaine includes discussion on government regulation and law enforcement, drug trafficking, and psychological and physiological effects

On the therapeutic use of cocaine. Edited by Robert Byck. Notes by Anna Freud.