The level of addiction and desperation the drug created in users resulted in violent robberies and murders, and crack-addicted newborns. Because the drug was so cheap to invest in and produce, the street price became cheaper over time, allowing its introduction to new and younger users, which prompted violence among drug dealers looking to protect their turf and maintain their customer bases. In 1985, the DEA estimated that 5.8 million Americans were addicted to crack. The effects of crack in Los Angeles had touched the lives of Eazy and all the members of N.W.A. The mid-1980s are generally known as a period of a crack "epidemic," as many inner-city neighborhoods were flooded with cheap cocaine in "rock" form that was imported primarily from countries in Central and South America.
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