SYSK Selects: How Crack Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Back in the mid-1980s a new and extremely potent drug hit the scene: crack cocaine. In short order, America was in the grip of both a sweeping addiction and a state of hysteria over use of the drug and the social consequences of crack, like crack babies. Let's take a look back at the receding wave of the crack epidemic and its lasting legacy on America in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.1	Hello everyone, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S. Case Selects, I've chosen our episode
0:36.6	How Crack Works.
0:38.3	And Boyle Boyd is the title ever say it all because we really, really explain how crack works.
0:45.7	So enjoy How Crack Works.
0:49.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.
0:56.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:03.5	I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, Jerry's over there and this is Stuff You Should
1:10.2	Know.
1:11.2	Jerry just waves, she's waving at the audience at his ear.
1:16.2	She's waving to the world.
1:17.2	It's a little weird.
1:18.6	You may be on somewhere.
1:20.6	Josh, you know what's whack?
1:25.6	The Zach Attack from Saved by the Bell?
1:28.6	I don't even know what that is.
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