The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s. [1][2] This resulted in several social …

Crack epidemic, the significant increase in the use of crack cocaine, or crack, in the United States during the early 1980s. Crack cocaine was popularized because of its affordability, its …

Jul 13, 2023 · "We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the …

The crack epidemic dramatically increased the numbers of Americans addicted to cocaine. In 1985, the number of people who admitted using cocaine on a routine basis increased from 4.2 …

The biggest surge in the use of the drug occurred during the “crack epidemic,” between 1984 and 1990, when the drug spread across American cities. The crack epidemic dramatically …

Once crack cocaine began to appear in urban communities, its use quickly escalated into an epidemic. Sold for only $5 to $20 per vial, crack cocaine was affordable for users and …

how the drug problem, specifically the crack epidemic, was impacting the community,” she later explained. The Community Coalition advocated mandatory school counseling drug and gang …

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As of 1990, there were nearly half a million current crack users among the 1.6 million current cocaine users. The persistence of these patterns of drug abuse has been acknowledged

Crack cocaine reached epidemic proportions in Philadelphia between 1989 and 1991, a period that saw some 500 dealers indicted by federal, state, and local authorities.