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...Yachts. To show he was not just soaking the poor, Reagan said he would initiate new $20 user fees for these luxuries. The plan sank...
...smoke marijuana for the same purpose, or mix their C with heroin in a process called "speedballing" or "boy-girl." This produces a tug-of-war in which the exhilaration of coke is undercut by the heroin. As one former user describes the sensation, "It's like taking an elevator at 100 m.p.h. to the top of the Empire State Building and then someone cuts the cable." A few middle class users who dabble with heroin in conjunction with cocaine smoke it rather than inject it in their veins like the ghetto kid. This, they believe, prevents addiction...
...consequences are inevitable. "Like an overburdened telephone switch board," explains Dr. Walter Riker Jr., chief of pharmacology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, "the brain cannot handle all the messages. There is too much information flowing in, and the user becomes hyperaroused." With higher doses and chronic use, the alertness and exhilaration so prized by coke's connoisseurs quickly turn into darker effects, ranging from insomnia to full-fledged cocaine psychosis. Even a single overdose can cause severe headaches, nausea and convulsions-indeed, total respiratory and cardiovascular collapse. Says U.C.L.A. Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel: "Extreme cocaine dosages light...
...articles: "The blizzard is exaggerated. With the affluence around, I'd guess there's the same amount of use on Capitol Hill and Wall Street." That is not necessarily a comforting defense. Protests Jeff Wald, Helen Reddy's manager and husband, himself a former heavy cocaine user: "I've never seen coke used as a means of barter or a way of making a deal...
...picks you up," Phillips says. "It's a very erratic business. Say you're an actor and you're performing for twelve weeks and then you wait a half-year for work. I'm still not sure about why I became such a heavy user. I think I used coke as a manipulative instrument. Men traditionally have used coke for sexual favors. I dispensed it for creative favors. I mean, I did get two or three jobs done in a very short time...