He is addicted to cocaine.

Then along comes crack cocaine.

Just say, No! to cocaine.

But romantic love is much more than a cocaine high at least you come down from cocaine.

Because crack cocaine was an unbelievable innovation.

So what was it about crack cocaine?

You couldn't sell cocaine cocaine's a great product powdered cocaine but you've got to know rich white people.

We worry about cocaine coming from the Andean Ridge north.

Heroin, cocaine, women being trafficked into prostitution and precious minerals.

On the other hand, amphetamines like cocaine are dopamine agonists.

And I took crack cocaine, every single night for seven years.

Because you could smoke crack cocaine you can't smoke powdered cocaine and smoking is a much more efficient mechanism of delivering a high than snorting it.

So does cocaine, so does a high fat diet, so does emotional stress.

Early explorers rubbed cocaine in their eyes to kill the pain of it.

So let me start by talking about crack cocaine, and how it transformed the gang.

We caught it with that low tech raft (Laughter) and it was carrying six tons of cocaine.

One of the offshoots of crack cocaine is that you keep an erection for about four hours.

It was easier to get cannabis, heroin and cocaine, faster even, in the prison than outside the prison.

People who use heroin, they inject cocaine, they drink alcohol, crystal meth and every drug known to man.

Six thousand people killed there in the last 18 months as a direct consequence of the cocaine trade.

First, I want to explain how and why crack cocaine had such a profound influence on inner city gangs.

In fact, the same brain region where we found activity becomes active also when you feel the rush of cocaine.

like leafy vegetables, whole grains, avoiding cigarettes, cocaine, stress all of which have been shown experimentally to impact our epigenomes negatively.

And in the words of Malcolm Gladwell, crack cocaine was the extra chunky version of tomato sauce for the inner city.

In fact, one of the most important was a brain region that becomes active when you feel the rush of cocaine.

You can't simply move millions of dollars or kilos of cocaine over the state lines in the back of the station wagon.

And it turned out there was this audience that didn't know it wanted crack cocaine, but when it came, it really did.

Interestingly, the market share of heroin and cocaine is going down, because the pills are getting ever better at reproducing their highs.

And it was a perfect drug you could buy the cocaine that went into it for a dollar, sell it for five dollars.

One third of all drug overdoses in the U.S. and that includes cocaine, heroin, alcohol, everything one third of drug overdoses are prescription medications.

So they're going into convenience stores, stealing Tide, and a 20 bottle of Tide is equal to 10 dollars of crack cocaine or weed.

When the addict shoots cocaine, when the addict shoots crystal meth or almost any drug, they get a hit of dopamine in their brain.

1 of high school seniors had try heroin, 12 hallucinogens, 12 tranquilizers, 17 cocaine, 26 stimulants, and over 50 of us had tried marijuana.

If you look at drugs like heroin, like morphine, like codeine, if you look at cocaine, if you look at alcohol, these are all painkillers.

In the latest report, it is written that 90 of all the cocaine smuggled in the world is transported by sea, and most of that by speedboat.

In fact, I saw Robin Williams recently talk about how he thought he was much funnier when he was doing cocaine, when he had that issue, than now.

So, if you believe the media accounts, being a drug dealer in the height of the crack cocaine epidemic was a very glamorous life, in the words of Virginia Postrel.

To do that, you have to actually go back to a time before crack cocaine, in the early '80s, and look at it from the perspective of a gang leader.

lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

Living on black coffee, sugarless gum, strong cigarettes, uppers, and other stimulants, including the occasional line of cocaine in the dressing room, desperate to squeeze into that model sample size that's a size 0, ladies.

And one of the sad parts of this is that, indeed, among the many other ramifications of crack cocaine is that the most talented individuals in these communities this is what they were striving for.

You put the stick in the powder to take the sacred ashes well, they're not ashes, they're burnt limestone to empower the coca leaf, to change the pH of the mouth to facilitate the absorption of cocaine hydrochloride.

I would say that in the last 25 years, of every invention or innovation that's occurred in this country, the biggest one in terms of impact on the well being of people who live in the inner city, was crack cocaine.

You can just take the DNA code from marijuana or poppies or coca leaves and cut and past that gene and put it into yeast, and you can take those yeast and make them make the cocaine for you, or the marijuana, or any other drug.