The 'Explosion’ That Never Happened: Crack and Cocaine Use in Britain
Submitted by Mike Ashton
- 6 July 2017
In 1989 a whirlwind of concern was stirred up by a US drug enforcement officer who predicted for Britain a US-style “explosion” of violence associated with the ‘almost instantly addictive’ crack version of cocaine. That did not happen - but what did, where do those claims stand today, and what of cocaine powder, for decades seen as the champagne set’s favourite drug? Read more...