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National fatality figures are approximate, since coroners do not or cannot always find the evidence that cocaine was lethal. But overdoses of coke were directly or primarily responsible for as many as 300 deaths in 1981. Last year Dr. Charles Wetli, the deputy chief medical examiner for Miami's Dade...
For cocaine extremists seeking peak pleasure at any cost, "free-basing" is the ultimate high. The smoking technique was rare until 1979, when head shops began mass-marketing $15 free-base extraction kits. Although not practiced by most cocaine users, free-basing is disturbingly popular, especially in California. Its toll...
The stuff, resembling rock-candy granules, has a melting point half that of plain cocaine. It is customarily smoked in a small glass water pipe, often filled with rum instead of water. The bowl is usually fitted with several thicknesses of fine steel mesh so that the precious drips of...
"In the end, I thought I was God." With the help of an unsuspecting nurse, he maintained his medical practice. But his life at home was unraveling. He was unperturbed by the constant small fires he started with his free-basing equipment. He was now smoking $2,000 worth of...
Trop moved out of his house and into a dilapidated apartment. "I was chasing the memory of the high," he says. "The highs got lower, and the lows got deeper." His skin was covered with sores from malnutrition. The free-basing also caused rashes and made his tongue so swollen...