Peru is the world’s biggest producer of coca leaves. ibid.
Paco [paste] produces a powerful and addictive high when smoked ... Dubbed poor man’s Crack, Paco is a cocktail of poisonous chemicals. ibid.
Paco addiction has spread like wildfire across South America in the last decade. ibid.
The further north it travels the more expensive it becomes. ibid.
West Las Vegas is one of the city’s most drug-ridden neighbourhoods. It’s a hotbed for Vegas’ crack cocaine industry. Drugs Inc s3e1: High Stakes Vegas
Crack smokers can experience a temporary state of full blown paranoid psychosis. Drugs Inc s3e2: Alaska Heroin Rush
Since the late eighties Crack has become a powerful force in Alaska's urban underworld. ibid.
Powerfully addictive with a short and expensive high, Crack is a drug-dealer’s dream. ibid.
Whammy is fake crack cocaine. Drugs Inc s3e5: Hurricane Blow
Montana: known as the Treasure State. This is Big Sky country, and a state awash with Crack. Drugs Inc s3e6: Meth Boom Montana
Crack may be cheap but the quality has gone down. Drugs Inc s3e9: Motor City Rush
Miami has found it hard to shake the grip of the Crack epidemic that has swept through the city. Drugs Inc s4e6: Miami Vices
The dope holes in Miami are thriving. The short high leaves addicts constantly craving more. ibid.
$200 a day ... Whatever she earns immediately goes on Crack. Drugs Inc s5e8: Dallas Dope Cowboys
The cartels have infiltrated Dallas. ibid.
‘I love it. More than anything. More than life itself, you know. But yet I hate it worse than anything.’ High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell, woman on crack, Community Channel 2013
Three weeks later Brenda leaves Boo Boo. She hides at the house of her ex-boyfriend Mike. ibid. caption
43To get money for crack Dickie commits a series of violent crimes. He is arrested for the 27th time. ibid.
Brenda is now four months pregnant. She decides to enter a drug rehab program. She is back with Boo Boo. ibid.
One month later Brenda is running out of time for an abortion. Her drug addiction has gotten worse. ibid.
Brenda doesn’t show up for her abortion. Three weeks later Brenda disappears from Lowell. ibid.
Boo Boo starts to fall apart. ibid.
Boo Boo stays off crack for three months. He joins a HIV support group. ibid.
Dickie spends his last night cracking up with Boo Boo. In the morning he will be sentenced to a long prison term. ibid.
Boo Boo lives in Lowell. His crack habit is $200 a day. Dickie is in a state prison … Brenda is still missing. No-one in Lowell has seen her. ibid.
A new form of the drug appeared – Crack. How Drugs Work: Cocaine, BBC 2011
Clint Eastwood: ‘See this cute little vial here: it’s crack. Rock cocaine. The most addictive form. You think it’s the glamour drug of the eighties ... If you’ve got to die for something, this sure ain’t it.’ David Walliam’s Awfully Good Ads, ‘Just Say No’, Channel 4 2011
The House That Crack Built. Rab C Nesbitt s10e4: Fight, Rab opens local drop-in centre, BBC 2011
Not only did most of the crack dealers still live in the projects, but most of them still lived at home with their moms. Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner, Freakonomics
Along with the bad pay, the foot soldiers faced terrible job conditions. For starters, they had to stand on a street corner all day and do business with crackheads. ibid.
So if crack dealing is the most dangerous job in America, and if the salary was only $3.30 an hour, why on earth would anyone take such a job? ibid.
The problem with crack dealing is the same as in every other glamour profession: a lot of people competing for a very few prizes. ibid.
As veteran crack dealers were killed or sent to prison, younger dealers decided that the smaller profits didn’t justify the risk. The tournament had lost its allure. ibid.
Crack use was nonexistent until the early 1980s, and spiked like mad in 1985, peaking in 1989. That it arrived early on the West Coast, but became more prevalent in the cities of the Northeast and Middle Atlantic States. And that it produced a remarkable level of gun violence, particularly among young black men, who made up the bulk of street-level crack dealers. ibid.
Crack usage peaked around 1989 but it never went away. Cocaine: History Between the Lines, History 2014
Crack is an epidemic in the United States. Cities of all sizes are falling prey to its devastation. The events you are about to see were filmed in Palm Beach County, Florida over a period of eight weeks. America Undercover: Crack USA: Country Under Siege, caption, HBO 1989
‘It’s just like getting cookies from a store; you can go anywhere and get it.’ ibid. blond dude
Since crack hit, juvenile assaults are up 50%. Juvenile armed robberies are up 600%. Six in ten crimes are now crack related. ibid. commentary
Rick Kirkham shot over 3,000 hours of film and video. He never watched any of it. Rick was born in Oklahoma City 1958. Rick had the perfect family. TV Junkie, captions, 2006
While covering drug raids [as a reporter], the police introduced Rick to crack cocaine. Rick’s story on the Nasty Boys gained nationwide attention. In 1988 he was hired to report for Inside Edition. ibid.
May 9th 1993: I am checked in as an impatient in the chemical dependency unit. ibid. Rick on video
And that’s how horrible the addiction is: and yet it takes over your mind. ibid. Rick on crack
This addiction is gonna kill me. The terrible thing is you don’t think about your family, your friends, your career. ibid.
Very raw and animalistic … How can something be so euphoric and good and so terrible; you do it you know it can kill ya. ibid.
It’s totally debilitating. ibid.
I’m a video junkie. ibid.
7 years now I’ve done basically at least three nights a week if not more. ibid.
I got the letter from Inside … Terminated because of non-diligent and unfaithful service. ibid.
Ricky, you mamma is trying to send your daddy to jail. ibid.
8.50 in the morning and Rick’s not home. ibid. Tammy
I’ve virtually destroyed my life. ibid.
After ten days Rick returns home from his second rehab. ibid.
They filed for divorce. ibid.
Crack: It was like watching a strategically-engineered ad campaign; talk about perfect product placement – did we mention it’s cheap and strong and very addictive? It’s only five dollars now so stay away from it! American Drug War: The Last White Hope, 2007
Crack cocaine: it’s the king of all drugs, the undisputed champion of Class A narcotics; it’s expensive, tiny and very very addictive. It’s a drug-dealer’s dream. Crackhouse, BBC 2003
Every single one of my friends were now either crack addicts or crack dealers. ibid.
Virginia’s got two other kids but she doesn’t live with them. ibid.
Virginia’s burnt out a lot of houses. ibid.
In 1984 the United States’ crack epidemic swept through African-American communities instantly turning playgrounds into warzones, destroying thousands of families and making minced meat of good men. On October 18th 2010 I began filmed a group of crack addicts in Atlanta, Georgia, who live outside behind a Texaco gas station infamously dubbed as the Living Room. J is for Junkie, 2011
‘I used to be a beautiful woman … I used to be a majorette.’ ibid. Susan
Crack: a highly addictive form of rock cocaine that is typically smoked … and never let go. Crackheads Gone/Went Wild, 2006
‘The blow don’t discriminate, man.’ ibid.