Abstract
Crack is a smokable form of cocaine which gives instant and spectacular results. Pure Cocaine in its usual white powder form is unsuitable for smoking because much of the active drug is destroyed at high temperatures: the powder is usually sniffed — ‘snorted’ — up the nostrils through a tube; this gives a reaction in about three minutes, which lasts for several hours. Crack gives a much more intense sensation more quickly (in 5 or 10 seconds) but it lasts only for about 15 minutes. When it subsides, the reaction is one of corresponding depression, with an immediate craving for another dose.
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Philip Bean (ed), Cocaine and Crack: Supply and Use London, Macmillan; New York, St Martin’s Press, 1993, p. 3
John Reardon, ‘Crack’, Observer? 24 January 1988, p. 15
Robert M. Stutman, New York DEA agent, lecture to ACPO Regional Drug Conference, Lancashire, 20 April 1989
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Clutterbuck, R. (1995). Crack. In: Drugs, Crime and Corruption. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376472_9
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