when and why did the crack epidemic end?

[earl n water]

Crack epidemic was PEAK all throughout the 90s. It definitely didn't END in the 90s.

Like others said, the movement just shifted to meth and pills. CAC drugs. Then it changed from a crack epidemic, to an "opoid crisis".

A lot of yall way too young to remember.

 

[Child_Of_God]

The crack epidemic didn’t really end completely until the mid to late 90s.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

The late 90s was violent too. The early 00s had superthug dudes all on the media. I'd say the impact of the crack epidemic started to wear off around 2004 when I seen black men abandon the super baggy clothes and started to dress like early Kanye West. Also the era where EVERYONE started to go to college, even the hood dudes. Prior to 04, you still had that ignorance of mean mugging, dudes fighting kids on the block for no reason, cats trying to test you in random places, everyone not engaged in dirt were called "soft", and so on.

Dude, the late '90s didn't have anywhere near the violence of the early '90s & the '80s.

Totally different world.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Got this off another board

Anonymous
Answered Nov 8, 2015


Originally Answered: Why did the crack cocaine epidemic end?
As an addict and in particular a crack addict the answer is obvious to me. Of course I'm giving the "ground level" answer, not the geo-political/economic answer.

ONE:
In the last 25 years the quality has dropped from absolutely amazing to complete trash. 25 years ago (and even 10 or 15 years ago) I would buy rocks that were cocaine and baking soda (or ammonia); and maybe a little bit of impurities. It felt like I was using pure cocaine (although I know better). Each hit was an explosion in my brain. I would buy $200 and it felt like I had a world of a high powered drug.

Now, sometimes when I buy it (which is not often at all due to price and quality), I taste it and don't get numb and barely taste the cocaine. And I can taste all the crap they put in it. I take hits and I just don't get "that feeling."

TWO:
The price has sky-rocketed. 25 years ago a dime rock ($10) was huge. It was several hits (maybe 5 or more).

Now sometimes I buy $50 pieces that are as big as the old dimes ($10 pieces).

Note: I always copped in the hood. My experience might be different if I lived there. My experience might be different if I had a more direct source.

 

[LezJepzin]

A year after this dropped

 

[Wild self]

Dude, the late '90s didn't have anywhere near the violence of the early '90s & the '80s.

Totally different world.

Even so, cats were on the street corner, fighting and testing random dudes minding their own business. People getting jumped simply cause they werent a part of a gang or clique. Robberies out this world. Even back in 94, my older bro got his bike stolen in broad daylight in a quiet, clean neighborhood filled with elderly black residents. Crackheads sleeping in churches, breaking stuff whenever they wanted to get high. It was within a deacde apart and the residual effects of the crack era didn't go away until I graduated high school.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Y’all in here talking about the after effects

 

[Alvin]

i wanna say '92.

idk I'd say 95 at the latest
in terms of why? well a lot of people got killed off it (users and dealers) laws were being written that were giving people football numbers and newer forms of getting high (opiates) were way easier to get.

 

[hcobbland84]

i wanna say '92.

It ended when Hov lost 92 bricks.

 

[Ol’Otis]

It ended when Hov lost 92 bricks.

streets been done every since

 

[General Mills]

1994, when the Crime Bill became Law.

NOBODY was tryin' for Three Strikes.​

This.

in Pittsburgh the cops went super hard. Locking up whole hoods. My cousin was in that drug dealing life and the only reason he escaped being swept up was that he was already in jails for some other shyt.

 

[BrownBunny]

I don’t understand why crack has a worse stigma than any other hard drug. An addict is an addict. The dudes strung out on lean, benzos, zannys, or whatever aren’t any better than a crackhead. Mac Miller and Juice WRLD are dead just the same.

 

[Wild self]

I don’t understand why crack has a worse stigma than any other hard drug. An addict is an addict. The dudes strung out on lean, benzos, zannys, or whatever aren’t any better than a crackhead. Mac Miller and Juice WRLD are dead just the same.

This id about the CRACK ERA and how long the aftershocks remained.

 

[Marti]

Hey my name Tanya and I smoke crackkkkk
If you got $10 u can meet me in the backkkkk

 

[BrownBunny]

This id about the CRACK ERA and how long the aftershocks remained.

Yeah, my point still remains. Gangs were killing each other in droves before crack. Addicts were having their lives ruined and dying with other drugs before crack. The ghetto, broken homes, neglected children, etc. existed before crack. Before hard drugs, it was alcohol. The worst gang era in America was probably the 1920s when alcohol was illegal.

As someone who hasn’t even smoked weed, I don’t understand why crack is made into such a bigger thing than powder cocaine, heroin, meth, or any other hard drug. If anything, meth seems like the worst drug on your psyche and physical appearance while heroin and other opioids are the harshest killers.

I’ve never seen a crackhead that looked like this.

Heroin is almost glamorized but it probably destroyed far more people in the 70s than crack did in the 80s/90s.