This website is intended as a resource for journalists, academics, researchers and interested members of the public. Crack-facts attempts to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about crack cocaine in a truthful manner, without the bias and hysteria that often surrounds discussion of the drug.

The issues addressed here include the effects of crack cocaine on the brain, the differences and similarities between crack cocaine and powder cocaine, the history of the drug, and the nature of addiction.

1. What is cocaine?
2. What is crack?
3. How is cocaine used?
4. How is crack used?
5. How many people use crack?
6. How does cocaine work?
7. What are the effects of cocaine?
8. STDS and crack
9. History of crack
10. How dangerous is it to take crack or cocaine?
11. Definitions of addiction
12. Crack addiction and the illegal market
13. Maintaining the habit
14. Drug, set and setting