"If you love it, and if you're not a pussy, you will be smoking thousands of dollars' worth in a month," says former crackhead Richard Taite, who used to smoke the rock with lawyers and celebrity progeny in Bel Air and now runs the Cliffside Malibu rehab facility. The remaining 9 percent, sad to say, were actual addicts. Another 15 percent said they still smoked from time to time. A 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 76 percent of people who tried crack between 20 had stopped using it altogether two years later. In fact, up to 4 out of 5 people who try it don't get addicted. Burroughs and Sid Vicious.īut it doesn't - contrary to our collective gasps - automatically turn you into a crackhead. The incredibly powerful high is a draw, of course, but so is the fact that its name is synonymous with addiction and lets a user feel a deep and dangerous connection to balls-out substance abusers like William S. More than an intense new nightcap, crack serves, rehab experts attest, as a résumé-builder for the in-crowd. "It's like coke times 100," said Keith, letting out an acrid belch of smoke. He and Keith started smoking their crack in the taxi on their way home to the industrial-chic Gowanus section of Brooklyn. Neil bought four tiny blue Baggies, each containing a one-hit rock, for $10 a pop from a kid on a bike, then picked up a $3 glass stem from a corner deli. When they rolled out of the bar at around 1:30 A.M., after an evening punctuated by blow and Adderall, Keith suggested they cap the night with crack.
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At a hip dive bar, I met Neil, an Internet executive, and his friend Keith, who works in the financial industry (both asked that their full names be withheld).
I randomly saw this play out on an autumn Sunday night in New York City's East Village. He says he knows "tons of people" in fashion, music, and art who either have smoked rock or would be willing to try it as long as "someone else in the room has it and knows what they are doing." "There's a stigma to crack that excites certain people," says one 36-year-old fashion photographer who works on New York's Lower East Side. Yesterday's scourge of the underclass is today's indulgence of the idle class. And they follow young, edgy creative-hipster types eager to go through some kind of dark, skid-row rite of passage. In one episode, über-uptight Shoshanna accidentally smokes crack at a Brooklyn warehouse party, thinking the pipe she is casually passed contains weed. The HBO comedy Girls got it exactly right.
Clouds of crack smoke are now wafting from upscale lofts on the Bowery and West Hollywood hotel rooms and from bungalows in Venice Beach and converted warehouses in Bushwick. And just as onetime crack dens have been transformed into high-end real estate, the glass pipe, too, has been gentrified. But there are growing indications that some smokers can handle their shit. It often indicates a user profile.Ĭrack may be one of the most addictive substances on earth - as the indelible images of crack babies supposedly born hooked drove home in the 1980s. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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