Crack Babies Grew Up OK; It's Poverty That's the Real Problem

Crack Babies Grew Up OK; It's Poverty That's the Real Problem

Filed under: Drug Addiction To Crack Cocaine

Television show after television show, article after article proclaimed that children born to addicts of the increasingly prevalent "crack" cocaine were all-but-guaranteed to have birth defects, including extremely low IQs and severe emotional problems … Read more on DailyFinance

Decades Later, Drugs Didn't Hold 'Crack Babies' Back

Filed under: Drug Addiction To Crack Cocaine

The crack epidemic made headlines in the '80s and '90s, and doctors despaired for the children born to crack-addicted mothers. But a new study suggests that many so-called 'crack babies' were not doomed to failure in adult life. Host Michel Martin … Read more on NPR

How Americans Said 'No' To Cocaine After Years-Long Addiction

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In the '80s, when President Ronald Reagan was waging a war on drugs, cocaine and its derivative, crack, ravaged the nation's inner cities. Meanwhile, the powder version of the drug reached a different demographic. "The ethos in fashionable Manhattan … Read more on KPBS