During the 80's and 90's, the nation's health specialists panicked over the growing number of so-called "crack babies" — children exposed to crack cocaine in utero. These children were said to be ...
I realize I gave my position on this subject away in the title, but I just couldn’t have y’all thinking for even a microsecond that I was about to make the saying “Black don’t crack” a thing. Well, ...
On Sept. 5, 1989, President George H.W. Bush appeared on live television to discuss what he called the nation's "gravest domestic threat." Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of ...
Stanley Nelson's big-picture documentary takes the measure of crack as a destroyer, but does it with a social awareness that was missing at the time. In the 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through ...
Addiction Response Crumlin (ARC) in Dublin said in the last six months the drug is being sold on the streets as crack. Before that, addicts bought cocaine in powder form and made it into crack ...