When Crack Was King: looking back on an epidemic that destroyed lives

There were times when

thought writing this book was going to kill him. As he struggled through each chapter, “the story fought back”, inflicting brain fog, insomnia, stomach pains, heart palpitations. “On more than one occasion I visited the ER, certain that I was dying,” the 35-year-old writes.

But he got it done: When Crack Was King is a panoramic social and political history of the crack cocaine epidemic that…