Description: Documents the dangers of cocaine and contends that the national hysteria over it is largely unfounded. This book demonstrates that what keeps many heavy users from falling into the abyss of abuse and what helps retrieve those who do fall is a stake in conventional life: jobs, families, friends.
Review Quotes: "This book puts the cocaine scare of the 1980s to the test and places cocaine in a more realistic perspective. By examining the lives of hundreds of heavy users, it discovers that even among this group, cocaine use is not always cocaine abuse."
--Kevin B. Zeese, Drug Policy Foundation