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Timeline of total number of inmates in U.S. prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities from 1920 to 2014. A major spike in incarcerations can be seen between 1980 and 2000.
11 lip 2023 · We are piecing together fragments toward a real history. What I’ve learned, through hundreds of interviews and years of research, is that what crack really did was expose every...
25 paź 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.
While the use of coca leaves as an intoxicant dates back three thousand years, crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
The term “crack head” is an expression born in the mid-1980s. By the late 1980s the term denoted a stigmatized status and was well known in both the inner cities and society at large.
23 mar 2014 · U.S. Renowned documentary photographer Eugene Richards bore witness to the ravages of the crack epidemic that gripped the Northeast in the 1980s. His book Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue documents the...
6 kwi 2010 · Compulsive crack use concentrated in American urban neighborhoods characterized by poverty and cultural isolation in the 1980s and the object of lurid media coverage, can be better understood through the lens of the historical epidemiology of drug-related harm.
