Crack pipe (actual definition) - A pipe used for boiling and inhaling drugs in freebase form, from crack cocaine to methamphetamine, DMT, heroin, 2-CT-7 or anything else that can be made into a freebase. Crack pipes do not burn the material being smoked, but rather heat it so it sublimes into vapour, which is inhaled.

So, a crack pipe turns a solid directly into a vapor (skipping the liquid phase).

Solid information turns to vapor, which quickly dissipates.

Crack pipes are made of glass, which are clear, see-through. Contents are visible, not hidden.

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Crack+Pipe

Crack pipe (potential comm definition) - "cracked pipe." Pipes are used to transport water. Information = water. So, a cracked pipe would be a leaky pipe = information leak.

Both definitions, from a comms perspective, are similar: information that is "released" or "dissipates."

"crack pipes to prevent infection and promote 'racial equity'"

Infection -> virus -> viral -> viral information -> out-of-control information

see-through glass -> contents are visible to all -> "racial" equity -> everyone gets the same data

"President Biden's Health and Human Services department (HHS) is finalizing funding to dole out crack pipes to drug addicts as part of its 'Harm Reduction Plan.'"

Biden is supplying a standardized means of communication to reduce the harm stemming from viral, out-of-control information.