People refer to the cr@Ck epidemic in the 80s

I lived through it..

It lead to an explosion in gang related killings..

It lead to an explosion in the prison population of the USA..

And kids seeing their parents die from overdoses..

I remember a few times the Media featured a story about a kids ringing the emergency services when their parent was dying in front of them and ended up saving their parent..

I was growing up in iowa during my adolescent years during most of the 80's, we really didn't have the issues of it in most of the state outside the big cities like Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo/Cedar Falls, and Council Bluffs, a technical suburb of Omaha, Nebraska. However I have seen the ravages of crack addiction with my bff in Denver, Colorado, I met her when we both worked in an iowa McDonald's together, but circumstances forced her to move back to Denver where she grew up. When I met her in early 2015 she was a very healthy 35 year old woman, now she looks almost 80, and is very emaciated and skeletal from the drug,

They still love their crack in places like Key West and the Castro in SF

Different kind of crack though 😳

How come nobody talks about that if they stepped over high people? 👀