"But who's going to raise that child when the village is on crack?"

One woman first came to the church for Christmas toys because she had spent all her family's money on crack.

I remember when the stories started coming out about mothers on crack.

"We had people who could tell from 100 meters away if someone was on crack, simply by their body language," he said.

"He was really strung out on crack for a couple of years."

The man was watching his sister's little boy, he said yesterday, because she had been high on crack since Tuesday.

At the time, she was spending up to $100 a day on heroin and crack.

About half of our patients have also spent years on crack or alcohol.

In Harlem the standard cost of getting high on crack is $3.

I have to see a kid later who has a brother on crack.