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SYSK Selects: How Crack Works

SYSK Selects: How Crack Works

Stuff You Should Know

July 20, 201947m 17s

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Show Notes

Back in the mid-1980s a new and extremely potent drug hit the scene: crack cocaine. In short order, America was in the grip of both a sweeping addiction and a state of hysteria over use of the drug and the social consequences of crack, like crack babies. Let's take a look back at the receding wave of the crack epidemic and its lasting legacy on America in this classic episode.

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