ch. 1. Coca to cocaine : early discoveries and reactions
1. Slavery and adoration : early Incan coca culture / Wade Davis
2. A European perspective on coca in sixteenth-century Peru / Garcilaso de la Vega
3. Sigmund Freud and his experiences with cocaine / E.M. Thornton
4. The joy of cocaine / William A. Hammond
5. The nightmare of cocaine / Anonymous, identified as "a former 'snowbird'"
6. An American invention : cocaine and Coca-Cola / Paul Gootenberg
ch. 2. Exploring cocaine in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s
1. Studying the hot new drug : unknown effects / Joel Greenberg
2. Coca versus cocaine / Andrew Weil
3. Cocaine as a status symbol / Jerry Hopkins
4. Introducing the national drug control strategy / George H.W. Bush
5. Cocaine policy in the 1980s / Jefferson Morley
ch. 3. Crack : the other cocaine
1. Understanding crack : the scientific perspective / Dan Waldorf, Craig Reinarman, Sheigla Murphy
2. Crack starts its rise / Jacob V. Lamar Jr.
3. Cocaine sentencing policy : crack versus powder / Ted Gest
4. Crack culture in East Harlem / Philippe Bourgois
ch. 4. Current issues and controversies
1. Cocaine : still popular, still dangerous / Rebecca Oppenheim
2. The beat goes on : the U.S. war on coca / Linda Farthing, Kathryn Ledebur
3. The emergence of "supercoca" / Joshua Davis
4. Crack in the twenty-first century / Geoffrey Gray
Appendix. How drugs are classified
Organizations to contact.
