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...visit Bolivia and Peru this week to discuss drugs and tour coca fields: "The dollar amounts are so great that bribery threatens the very foundation of law and law enforcement." A blond New York preppie, at 18 a recovering cokehead, was always ready to bribe: "I figured if a cop ever stopped me, I'd just offer him cocaine...
...Denver tire-repair shop, used four grams a day. Says he: "I wanted to feel like a kingpin, the life of the party. Coke gave me all of this. You get to feeling you're bulletproof." (Bulletproof Tony, arrested for selling more than half a pound to an undercover cop, is on probation and paying back the Government its undercover purchase money...
...expensive to waste in a tryout. Undercover agents avoid such tests because they are against the law-and because there is no way to tell what suspicious dealers may have mixed into the drugs. This time, however, his host insisted. "I think they began to think I was a cop," Tarver recalls. It was the beginning of an obsession that shattered Tarver's ten-year career. He stopped trying to sidestep the sniffing and began indulging during assignments, telling himself that this enabled him to gain the confidence of his targets and make bigger busts...
...busy with odd jobs as a substitute teacher or an extra on a TV soap opera. But her interest waned as she became more obsessed with coke. "There was no room to think about anything else. When I was working, I'd be thinking, 'I'll cop [buy] in four hours,' 'I'll cop in three hours.' Sometimes I'd just leave early and go cop." Before long, the interest she received on her trust fund was not enough to pay her drug bills. "The coke made me absolutely insane...
...capsized life. Tarver is now a drug counselor and a candidate for a master's degree in social work at the University of Houston. Having seen the problem from both sides, he doubts whether the new federal crackdown will curb cocaine use. "Suppose you have just one cop on a corner writing tickets, but everybody in town is running the stop sign? How can police stop them...