Emerging Models of Crack Distribution

"Crack." Virtually unheard of in 1985, crack inspires hys teria across the United States. Hundreds of articles on crack have appeared in major newspapers such as the New York Times (Morgan et al. , 1989; Goode, 1989) and Washington Post. "Crack heads," "crack babies," "crack mothers," "crack houses,""crack epidemic," and the like have quickly become part of common parlance and daily concern. Drug use and trafficking, according to Attorney General Thornburgh, represents " ... the greatest nonmilitary assault on the minds, bodies, and well-being of our citizens in our Nation's history" (U.S. Department of Jus tice 1989:1) . The United States is in the midst of a "drug panic" {Goode, 1989) and "drug scare" (Reinarman & Levine, 1989); its centerpiece is crack. Much research has been published during the past two decades on the use and (to a lesser extent) sale of "hard" and "soft" drugs, especially marijuana, cocaine, and heroin (Douglas, 1970; Goode, 1970; Johnson, 1973; Single & Kandel, 1978; Clayton & Voss, 1981; Elliott et al., 1984; Hamid, 1987, 1988b; Johnson & Wish, 1986a, Wish & Johnson, 1986; Preble & Casey, 1968; Cortina, 1970; Hughes, 1977; Moore, 1976, 1977, 1978; Manning, 1980; Kaplan, 1983; Kleiman, 1983, 1989; Zinberg, 1984; Hanson et al., 1985; Williams & Kornblum, 1985; Johnson et al. , 1985; Reuter & Kleiman, 1986; Speckart & Anglin, 1986; Mieczkowski, 1986; Adler, 1985).

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