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This image is of a boy named Dooney. He is an example of the lives of children of crack addicts. At the age of six, he could describe the process of cooking crack and smoking it. He once said that drugs was the reason his mother couldn't take care of…

Mayor Marion Barry was arrested early 1990 by the FBI for possession of crack cocaine. Mayor Barry was suspected of using crack cocaine for years, but denied it. He led the fight against crack in DC. His arrest came as a surprise for some, but not…

This newspaper article describes a group of men whose addiction to crack cocaine brought them to homelessness and poverty. And yet the direction of their conversation seems to always be crack cocaine. They are aware how they hurting themselves, but…

Lynda Waters is a crack addict. She prioritized crack above all else in her life, including her children. She has missed most of their lives, and does not even know her youngest daughter, as she has spent many years in jail. This interview with Lynda…

Drugs were so common place in Washington DC that there were many parts of the city where drugs were sold in the open air with out fear of the law or the police. People would line up to buy crack and often cause traffic jams. Drugs were such a problem…