Rojas nearly committing suicide following a cocaine binge, he was saved in the ambulance ride.

"You need to go to a place when you're performing a cocaine binge where you really don't care about yourself very much," Ms. Carlson said.

He said he was trying to get help for a woman who had been on a two-day cocaine binge.

Next came well-reported excesses, which included heavy drinking and cocaine binges.

He meets two women in a bar and goes back to their place to have a cocaine binge, but they are interrupted by two strangers.

Tuesday was difficult for people like Stephen Dey, who had just joined the program after a two-month cocaine binge.

A cocaine binge, for example, might leave a worker impaired for several days after cocaine use could no longer be detected in his or her urine.

He admitted going on a four-day cocaine binge.

One of those who did was Ceford, a week after the interview in the coffee shop, and the results sent him on a cocaine binge.

The camera zooms, pans and shifts focus as if it were being wielded by an optometrist on a cocaine binge.