Historian David Farber - Origins of the Crack Epidemic
David Farber, author of CRACK: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed, explains the factors that led to its spread including the rising unemployment in inner cities. He also covers the racial injustices from the War on Drugs and how politicians condemned the users instead seeing it as a public health crisis.
David Farber is a professor of history at the University of Kansas.
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