Netflix Tackles the 1980s Drug Epidemic in Crack: Cocaine, Corruption, Conspiracy Trailer

Cocaine is a drug that had a glamorous underworld reputation in the 1980s, and remains the drug of choice for the rich and untouchable today.

Crack, a form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted, is so quickly addictive that it spread like wildfire through poor communities in the 1980s, and there are indications that that was by design. The new Netflix documentary Crack: Cocaine, Corruption, Conspiracy profiles the drug epidemic, the Reagan administration's targeting of victims rather than suppliers, and the corruption rife in the police forces and Drug Enforcement Administration contributing to the spread rather than the end of the scourge.

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption, Conspiracy premieres January 11 on Netflix.

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