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...anyway, no longer rare. Among the 4 million to 5 million Americans who regularly (at least monthly) use cocaine, drug counselors estimate that 5% to 20%?at least 200,000, perhaps 1 million?are now profoundly dependent on cocaine, a new corps as numerous as heroin addicts...
...through the trade. Says the DEA's Bacon about the Colombian gangs: "They're absolutely ruthless, and they've imported their way of doing business to this country." A fellow DEA official, formerly stationed in New York and now in Dade County, is still astounded by the savagery. "Heroin dealers in Harlem didn't wipe out each other's whole families. They did in one guy on a bar stool," he says. "The Colombians wipe out the whole bar." Says U.S. Attorney Walsh: "Behind that social line of cocaine laid out at a party, there might well have been...
Consumers are plunging nose first into coke just when medical studies are reporting conclusions that should scare off new users and old. Until recently, when speaking of cocaine dependence, no one dared call it addiction: cocaine's withdrawal symptoms are not physically wrenching, as with heroin and alcohol. Nonetheless, says Dr. David Smith, director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco, "addiction is compulsion, loss of control and continued use in spite of the consequences. Cocaine is very addicting." What is more, and a fact many social snorters refuse to believe, coke can kill its users...
...year ago this month on Sunset Boulevard, after a sleepless drug-and-liquor binge, John Belushi was injected with a "speedball," a potent mixture of heroin and cocaine. Early that afternoon the wasted comedian was dead in his hotel bed, and a Hollywood hanger-on named Cathy Smith was in Los Angeles police custody. But Smith, who had been with Belushi all night, was not charged with any crime. Two months later, the tabloid National Enquirer reportedly paid her $15,000 for an interview. The paper quoted her (inaccurately, she claims) as saying that she had given Belushi the fatal...
...drugged against his will, California criminal lawyers believe that the murder case against Smith will be hard to make. But there is a precedent: in 1980 the state court of appeals upheld the second-degree murder conviction of a man who had furnished an unintentionally fatal overdose of heroin to a friend. "California," said Los Angeles Attorney Robert Sheahen, who has represented Smith, "stands virtually alone in making this kind of thing murder." Says Smith: "They're trying to find a scapegoat...