Format
Book
Publication Date
Published by / Citation
Drug and Alcohol Findings
Keywords
cocaine
Crack
UK
England
treatment
prevalence
history
moral panics

The 'Explosion’ That Never Happened: Crack and Cocaine Use in Britain

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...