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Various paraphernalia used to smoke crack cocaine, including a homemade crack pipe made out of an empty plastic water bottle.. In a study done by Roland Fryer, Steven Levitt, and Kevin Murphy, a crack index was calculated using information on cocaine-related arrests, deaths, and drug raids, along with low birth rates and media coverage in the United States.
Crack cocaine, commonly known simply as crack, and also known as rock, is a free base form of the stimulant cocaine that can be smoked. Crack offers a short, intense high to smokers. The Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment calls it the most addictive form of cocaine.
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By 1987, crack was reported to be available in the District of Columbia and all but four states in the United States. [18] Some scholars have cited the crack "epidemic" as an example of a moral panic, noting that the explosion in use and trafficking of the drug actually occurred after the media coverage of the drug as an "epidemic". [21]
Brown insisted that he and Houston "would still be together if it wasn't for drugs. Drugs just got the best of us," he said of his ex-wife and the singing great, who died in 2012.
Early in the meeting, which Jim recorded, Anne told the story of her son’s death, how he had died four days after coming home from Recovery Works. “I guess I’m trying to find out some answers,” she said. “It’s, it’s just so painful. I, I, I just, I don’t understand it. … I just, I’m at a loss…I’m just at such a—”
It’s just after 5 a.m. on a Monday in November. Fischer, a 31-year-old construction worker, has to get from his home on the outskirts of Rapid City, South Dakota, to Fort Collins, Colorado — some 350 miles away — and he has to get there by noon. He’s wearing a Kangol hat, jeans, a T-shirt and, for warmth, a hoodie and a jacket.
The video shows a roller coaster car, full of riders, zooming past the area of the crack. Riders can be heard in the video screaming around a curve, seemingly unaware of the large crack in the ...