Cocaine Handbook gives a closeup view of the illicit international cocaine trade, focusing on what happens at each stage as the product passes from cook to alchemist to dealer to user.

Cocaine Handbook includes health and safety information, laws for all 50 states, and the loaction of testing labs and treatment centers.

Cocaine Handbook describes in exact detail how samples are tested for common adulterants and impurities. Test and photographs show how unwanted substances are removed from street cocaine by the use of special refining procedures.

All processes in Cocaine Handbook are made exceptionally clear by charts, tables, more than 110 photographs showing the lab tests step-by-step.