The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1990 was implemented in response to crack epidemic of the 1990s.

True or False.

TRUE

Explanation:

Crack is a low-cost drug that comes from the same substance that produces cocaine. So crack emerged as a need for trafficking to lower the cost and sell more drugs. It turns out that crack is a highly addictive and deleterious drug, so that the US experienced a major crack epidemic in the 1980s, which increased the number of cases of violence as drug abuse and increased violence are correlated. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1990 was a government response to contain the epidemic. Today, 20 years later, the United States has successfully reversed drug-related crime rates and the incidence of crack use, although it is still a public health problem.