{"id":660647,"date":"2013-05-28T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=71d6243c2643920aa3bca5c5d33108ac"},"modified":"2013-05-21T10:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:17:51","slug":"seeing-the-crack-epidemic-as-a-disruption-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660647","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Crack Epidemic as a Disruption Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the 1985 arrival of crack cocaine in large U.S. cities had dire consequences, including a <strong>doubling<\/strong> of the homicide rate among black males aged 14 to 17, the epidemic&#8217;s social ills subsided after a few years, despite continued high use of the drug, says a team led by Roland G. Fryer Jr. of Harvard. After experiencing severe disruption from this technological innovation, illicit drug markets settled down and crack prices fell sharply, hurting the business&#8217;s profitability and reducing competition-related violence among dealers, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=g6_Lynu19qA:VAHl27bhyFQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=g6_Lynu19qA:VAHl27bhyFQ:bcOpcFrp8Mo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/harvardbusiness\/~4\/g6_Lynu19qA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the 1985 arrival of crack cocaine in large U.S. cities had dire consequences, including a doubling of the homicide rate among black males aged 14 to 17, the epidemic&#8217;s social ills subsided after a few years, despite continued high use of the drug, says a team led by Roland G. Fryer Jr. of Harvard. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}