Cocaine a problem on Wall St
The use of cocaine on Wall Street and the United States commodity ex-' changes is growing — and so are mistakes in judgment linked to cocaine abuse, according to The Wall Street Journal.
One independent order filler at the Chicago Board of Trade, the world’s largest commodity exchange, has died of "acute cocaine toxicity.” Cocaine has been around the financial markets for years — the Chicago Board Options Exchange four years ago was the scene of a bizarre televised swoop by Federal agents. Mr Douglas Lipton, the deputy director for research and evaluation for the New York State Division of Substance Abuse Services, is chagrined. “Would you,” he asks, “invest money if you knew your broker was stoned more than half the time?” — Observer News Service.
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