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Like Meade, Ridley shared his own story of overcoming a crack cocaine addiction. He said he remembers being in a crack house in the 1990s as a television carried news of a community group ...
Donovan X. Ramsey discusses his book, 'When Crack Was King' — the story of the crack epidemic through four survivors — and draws lessons for the opioid epidemic.
But the antidote to fentanyl is a different story. Naloxone abruptly plunges an overdosed user into excruciating withdrawal symptoms, he says. ... who kicked his own crack addiction in 2017 ...
"Ramsey's debut work of nonfiction is a master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities," wrote Zachary Siegel in a review for The Washington Post, "Thanks to Ramsey's diligent work, the crack era no longer feels distant and fragmented." [22]
Its filmmakers, Michael Cain and Matt Radecki, sifted through the video diary footage to piece together the story of Kirkham's life, focusing on the seven years in which he and his family struggled with his addiction to crack cocaine.
Then I was asked if I was a physician’s assistant, and I was asked if I was the wife of the guy sitting across the table from me. Another asked if addiction was a real area of medicine.” The demands of a rural community, where resources are spread thin, makes it more difficult to focus a practice on addiction medicine.
He discovered his talent when he was searching for an instrument with which to push the filters in his crack stem from one end to the other, so that he could smoke the remaining resin. What he found was a pencil, which he subsequently also used to write a short story called "No place to call home" which he then sent to "Street News". [ 4 ]
He says he was spending $2,400 to $2,600 a day for six years straight at the heaviest part of his cocaine and crack addiction. ... This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times. Show comments.