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Unlike in the USA crack cocaine use has not grown in epidemic fashion in the UK. Its prevalence instead has spread and grown gradually during the 1990s, mainly in the English cities. After heroin, crack or rock cocaine is the drug most associated with the UK’s social exclusion zones and ‘classic’ drugs-crime lifestyles. Just as heroin use can lead on to crack and poly drug use so, as we shall see, regular rock use can also lead into expensive poly drug habits.
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© 2001 Kevin Brain, Howard Parker and Tim Bottomley
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Brain, K., Parker, H., Bottomley, T. (2001). Untreatable? Hidden Crack Cocaine and Poly Drug Users. In: Parker, H., Aldridge, J., Egginton, R. (eds) UK Drugs Unlimited. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919861_7
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