The Taming of Cocaine

Download or read book The Taming of Cocaine written by Tom Decorte and published by ASP Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in the Antwerp club scene and repeated in-depth interviews with 111 experienced cocaine users, the overall theme of the book is the genesis and the development of informal control mechanisms (social sanctions and rituals) among these illegal drug users. The Belgian data are compared consistently to the findings of other comparable community studies in European and American cities--Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Barcelona, Turin, San Francisco, Toronto--and in Scotland and Australia.