New Podcast Shows the Impact of the 80's Crack Epidemic
It was crack. That’s what many Americans thought in June 1986 when they learned that Len Bias, the University of Maryland basketball star just drafted by the Boston Celtics, had died after a night of celebration in his dormitory. The latest urban menace had claimed someone white American knew — and liked. How long before it claimed one of their own?
It wasn’t crack, actually. An autopsy would reveal that Bias had used ordinary powdered cocaine — not cocaine in rock form, i.e. crack
