the vast majority are using both crack and heroin. Jan, a drugs worker with Streetreach, a Doncaster-based project that offers a range of support services, said: 'There has been a definite increase in the level of crack. Crack has become the new pimp and the girls are working harder than ever for it.' Then you wake up and it starts all over again. Eventually you need some sleep, so you take heroin in order to come down. You go out and you work long enough to go and get a rock, then you go away and use it and then you go out and do the same all over again. One drugs liaison officer told The Observer: 'When you mix crack and prostitution it becomes a 24-hour cycle. In London's King's Cross, dozens of women offer passing men unprotected sex for £10 - the price of a single rock in the capital.
Drug workers in Hull say dozens of teenagers are now offering sex for as little as £5 in order to feed their crack habit. Switching to the highly addictive drug has made many prostitutes so desperate for their next fix that they have lowered their prices. Police estimate that this market alone is worth more than £11 million a year. The trend is particularly prevalent in Bristol, where each of the city's 200 prostitutes spends an average of £1,100 a week on crack. The drug has been introduced to the prostitutes in 'party packs', which contain £10 worth of heroin and two 'free' rocks of crack.
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