11.   By finding it necessary to strongly imply that contra drug-dealing actually launched the crack epidemic, the paper overhyped and overpackaged the story.

12.   Dillon predicted that in Buffalo, where murders have been dropping in the wake of a receding crack epidemic, more time will elapse before a first-degree case emerges.

13.   Donohue and Levitt respond that the high murder rate was just a temporary spike created by the crack epidemic.

14.   Finding a black family in South Central that has not been touched in some way by the crack epidemic is difficult, if not impossible.

15.   He said the crack epidemic has abated, a conclusion on which several national experts in drug abuse agree.

16.   Her first assignment was in Washington Heights, at the height of the crack epidemic.

17.   Hospital and police officials expressed concern about a crack cocaine epidemic and its consequences for newborns.

18.   If the reports are true, the U.S government itself had a part in transforming an already serious drug problem into a nationwide crack cocaine epidemic.

19.   Moreover, they say, their research shows a steady decline in places where there was no crack epidemic and where innovative police strategies were not put into place.

20.   The articles suggested that the crack epidemic had been started by two Nicaraguan exiles who peddled crack in Los Angeles while raising money for the Contras.