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13 Σεπ 2024 · 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 immediate euphoric effect, and its high profitability. The crack epidemic had particularly devastating effects.
President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of crack cocaine during his Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy on September 5, 1989. 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.
Crack cocaine first saw widespread use as a recreational drug in primarily impoverished neighborhoods in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Miami in late 1984 and 1985; this rapid increase in use and availability was named the "crack epidemic", [2] which began to wane in the 1990s.
13 Ιουλ 2023 · Ramsey traces the advent of crack to a group of chemistry students at U.C. Berkeley who devised a recipe for freebasing cocaine using water and baking soda. The resulting substance provided a...
26 Μαρ 2023 · When Did The Crack Epidemic Begin? Cocaine use, and by extension, cocaine addiction , grew rapidly in the United States from the 1970s to the late 1980s. A glut of cocaine entered the United States from South America.
14 Μαρ 2022 · The crack epidemic of the 1980s began when a glut of powder cocaine (cocaine hydrochloride, extracted from coca leaves) reached the United States. It was likely funneled from South America through Miami and other Caribbean ports of entry.
11 Ιουλ 2023 · The crack epidemic exposed just how broken the most vulnerable were in the 1980s and ’90s, just how little the rest of the nation cared, how people would rather disappear their fellow...
