Eighty-two percent of people sentenced in 2012 for crack cocaine were black.” Of those who used the drug in the last 30 days, 28 percent were African-American.īase. “However, most people arrested, charged and incarcerated for crack cocaine use are black and Latino. “Most crack cocaine consumers are white,” Daniel Robelo of the advocacy group Drug Policy Alliance told Al Jazeera. Overall, 58,000 people tried crack for their first time during the most recent year the survey was taken. For 12th graders, the annual prevalence is around 1 percent, having declined from a peak of about 4 percent in 1987. The age group with the highest percentage of users in 2013 was 50-54 years old. Just 1 in 29 Americans have tried crack, according to the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. 'Additionally, in 2013, the ‘past year dependence’ of cocaine - crack and powder - was half of what it was in the decade prior: 0.3 percent of the population in 2013, compared to 0.6 percent in 2002.'
'We have seen a decrease in the use of crack cocaine,' in terms of people who have used the drug during the past year. “Overall, crack cocaine use is relatively low nationally,' said Samuel Schumach, spokesman for the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy. have waned as substance abusers increasingly seek treatment for heroin and crystal meth, as well as problems with marijuana and prescription drugs.
