Crack Cocaine Abuse: An Epidemic with Many Public Health Consequences

Figure 1: Global poverty: World Bank $1.25/day poverty line. Source: Data from Reference 24. Note that East Asia and Pacific includes China; South Asia includes India.

Figure 2: Global poverty: World Bank $2.50/day poverty line. Source: Data from Reference 24. Note that East Asia and Pacific includes China; South Asia includes India.

Figure 3: Quadruple burden of disease in South Africa: percentage of overall years of life lost, 2000. Source: (16). “Pre-transitional causes” of death include communicable diseases, maternal and peri...

Figure 1: User ratings of apricot kernels receive a 4.60 out of 5 efficacy score for cancer on WebMD (130).

Figure 2: Survival of patients with colorectal cancers receiving alternative medicine (blue solid line) versus conventional cancer treatment (orange dashed line). Figure adapted with permission from J...

Figure 3: Percentage of US adults who say they have a great deal of confidence in the people in the scientific community, medicine, and the press between 1972 and 2018. Figure adapted with permission ...

Figure 1 : The relative strength of known public health threats.