Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach)

As Opioid Crisis Hits Home, Black Media Outlets Step Up to Get Word Out

By the late 1970s, drug traffickers were shipping so much cocaine to the United States that the street price of the powdered stimulant dealers cook to make crack – the smokable rock form of the stimulant – dropped by nearly 80 percent, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).