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When Crack Was King was critically-acclaimed upon its release with positive reviews from publications including the Los Angeles Times [3], The New York Times [4], Kirkus Reviews [5], NPR, Apple Books, [6] Publishers Weekly [7], and The Guardian. [8] The Washington Post named the book a notable new release in a "summer of big books."
Crack baby is a term for a child born to a mother who used crack cocaine during her pregnancy. The threat that cocaine use during pregnancy poses to the fetus is now considered exaggerated. [ 27 ] Studies show that prenatal cocaine exposure (independent of other effects such as, for example, alcohol, tobacco, or physical environment) has no ...
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.
Ross has said that when he first saw crack cocaine as a teenager in 1979, he did not immediately believe it was a drug because it looked different from other drugs he had seen. [ 5 ] The nickname Freeway came from Ross owning properties along Los Angeles' Interstate 110, also known as the Harbor Freeway . [ 6 ]
The crack epidemic in the U.S. was a time during the 1980s when people were using crack cocaine as payment for every day goods, crack cocaine was cheap. [6] [4] Thompson wrote about her life during that time in Queen Pin, co-written with David Ritz. It was published in 2010.
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Sleeping Beauties. Around the world a sleeping sickness plunges women into a strange, cocooned state. If awakened, they turn homicidal. King and his son screw this global story down to a small ...
In 1986, the DEA began an anti-crack campaign in New York, rounding up hundreds of buyers and street sellers, many of whom became informers. [6] They led agents to Polanco-Rodriguez's headquarters at 2400 Webb Avenue and 2623 Sedgwick Avenue, in Kingsbridge Heights, Bronx. There, agents found bulletproof vests, automatic weapons, a gas mask and ...