21.   The crack epidemic has since faded, the Charleston hospital has discontinued its policy, but a basic issue has not gone away.

22.   The crack epidemic started in New York City and Los Angeles.

23.   The crack epidemic, and its concomitant shootings and deaths, also ebbed.

24.   The series provoked a national uproar and gave rise to fears among African Americans that elements of the government were deliberately sabotaging their communities by creating a crack epidemic.

25.   The story that the CIA deliberately started the crack epidemic also hit a nerve, especially among blacks.

26.   The story seemed to echo an old but nevertheless sensational allegation that CIA-supported Contra drug deals somehow triggered the U.S. crack epidemic.

27.   The law was enacted during the crack cocaine epidemic, but pregnant women found to have used other drugs have also been prosecuted.