It is made from pure cocaine usually mixed with baking soda.

The rush he felt from cocaine and the thrill of winning gripped him.

Della died of a drug overdose from alcohol and cocaine in 1998 at age 36.

Colombian traffickers last year grossed more than $4.5 billion from cocaine.

That's where Europe is now, but we're already beginning to see emergency hospital cases from cocaine.

"It wouldn't be that hard to change from cocaine to heroin."

But others note that people often die from cocaine without any external stress or threat.

"And deaths from cocaine generally occur among the heavier users," he said.

In July 2007, deaths from heroin and cocaine were reported from the prison.

"In general the possibility of death from cocaine is not dose related," he said.