ot pass through the placenta to the mother but remains in the amniotic fluid surrounding the baby. Crack use by pregnant mother has been associated with:1. Spontaneous miscarriages2. Reduced fetal head circumference3. A higher incidence of Sudden Infant Death SyndromeConservative estimates suggests that at least eleven percent of all newborns in the United States today were exposed in the womb to one or more illicit drugs. The number is even higher in urban areas. Birth and hospitalization of a normal newborn cost approximately two thousand dollars. Birth and hospital care of a crack exposed equipment and social service evaluations, costs eleven thousand dollars. Cocaine use during pregnancies not only affects unborn children and their mothers but the American tax payers are also involved. One of the main reason, cocaine addicts exists is the drug dealers who sell it to them. These dealers have no remorse for selling cocaine on the streets. Contrary to media reports the majority of crack is not sold on the streets and purchases are often made in known though highly temporary sites, delivered to the users home or through a friend. As yet pushing crack is still relatively rare as the market for it is sufficiently large that the supplier does not have to use these risky strategies to sell. Crack is merchandised by drug dealers as the cheap, easy and accessible way to use cocaine. Crack=s growing availability and convenience of use makes it one of the most marketable drugs sold on the street today. Crack is sold both at known Adrug copping@ areas and at locations where there was previously little or no drug activity. ABase@ or ACrack houses@(locations set up to sell or smoke crack) have sprung up in many areas. Crack is sold in small plastic vials and is in the form of small white, gray, or beige rough chunks that can be smoked in a glass pipe. Two doses of crack can be purchased for about five to ten dollars. Users prefer crack because of ...
