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Crack epidemic in the United States
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<p>The crack epidemic was a surge of <a href="/facts/Crack_cocaine/awtuuVsK">crack cocaine</a> use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s. This resulted in several social consequences, such as increasing crime and violence in American <a href="/facts/Inner_city/PgI58Uwy">inner city</a> neighborhoods, a resulting backlash in the form of <a href="/facts/Law_and_order_(politics)/pjKtwSx7">tough on crime</a> policies, and a massive spike in <a href="/facts/Incarceration_in_the_United_States/4gKXnqqq">incarceration rates</a>. </p>