A person’s heart attack risk soars shortly after taking cocaine (SN: 6/5/99, p. 356). Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo now calculate that roughly one-fourth of nonfatal heart attacks among people ages 18 to 45 result from the drug. Using data collected between 1988 and 1994 in a national survey, physician Adnan I.
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