Crack Cocaine Epidemic 1980s
Drug-Free Zones Off-Target, Group Says
During the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, dozens of states drew wide circles around schools and called them "drug-free zones" to keep dealers away from children. … Content Retrieval
Published In Emergency Medicine News, June 2000
Another factor may be the disappearance of the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and its accompanying gang violence. The reasons for this are elusive. … Return Document
QUESTION PRESENTED
The Crack Cocaine Epidemic Of The 1980s Crack cocaine first appeared in the illegal drug marketplace in the early 1980s. Crack cocaine is an easy-to-produce, smokeable substance containing co- … Doc Retrieval
For This LAPD, The Weapons Are Words
The California crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. And "Agents & Assets" keeps coming back. Created in 2001 by LAPD founder and director John Malpede, the show took the LAPD's … Return Document
Menacing Or Mimicking? Realities Of Youth Gangs
Media distortions of the crack cocaine “epidemic” of the late 1980s and early 1990s (see Reeves & Campbell, 1994, for an exhaustive analysis of that coverage). … Visit Document
Recipient Of The 2006 Abell Award In Urban Policy
Surge in violent crime in the late 1980s and early 1990s, linked to the crack cocaine epidemic, occurred simultaneously with the rise of a new theory about the role of police in communities. … Retrieve Here
COCAINE TREATMENT: Early Results From Various Approaches GAO …
3Drug Abuse: The Crack Cocaine Epidemic: Health Consequences and Treatment (GAO/HRD-91-55FS, Because cocaine use became epidemic in the early 1980s, research opportunities have been limited, and a standard cocaine treatment has not … Access Doc
BMC Public Health BioMed Central
In the United States in the mid and late 1980s, there was a cocaine epidemic fuelled by the use of "crack" cocaine [1-4]. At the same time, increases were noted in violent … Document Viewer
Assessing U.S. Drug Policy – University Of Maryland – Peter …
Crack cocaine The epidemic began in Los Angeles and New York around 1982 and spread to other cities over the next five years. over a long period of time; as compared to the early 1980s prices have fallen by … Return Doc
Mercury Lies; Reporter Dies
To the crack–cocaine epidemic. In other words from the early-to-mid 1980s. Webb connected that cocaine to an early "crack" production network that supplied Los Angeles street gangs, the Crips and the Bloods, leading to Webb's conclusion that contra cocaine fueled the early crack epidemic that … Get Doc
Cocaine And crack
Cocaine and crack Just how true are the stories about cocaine and crack? itself in the U.K. – with a 'crack' epidemic 'hitting our shores'. reputation for violence is derived from the chaotic and relatively violent crack markets of the early 1980s in … Read Here
FOSTER CARE: Agencies Face Challenges Securing Stable Homes …
Following the advent of crack–cocaine in the mid-1980s, cocaine use increased dramatically and reached alarming proportions by the end of the 1980s. Research indicates that the “crack epidemic” may have contributed … Document Viewer
RESEARCH REPORT A Different Kind Of Contextual Effect …
US cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and early 1990s12 coupled with the availability of data from geographically sampled both the powder form of cocaine and crack cocaine unless a question asked specifically about crack cocaine. … Read Content
WikiLeaks Document Release
To the “crack” cocaine epidemic of the late 1980s through the Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 (P.L. 99-570 and P.L. 100-690). 2 Further congressional action on gangs did not occur until … Read Document