Crack Cocaine Epidemic
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These preliminary data support a role from crack cocaine use in promoting the HIV epidemic in Saint Lucia. The participants each received $20 USD as compensation for his/her time. … View Full Source
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In response to the crack cocaine epidemic and the growing rate of drug-related homicides, a series of laws were enacted that created mandatory … View Doc
Cocaine Lecture
Cocaine consumption as parody of Reaganism, consumerism As cocaine became fashionable drug, social emulation kicked in (as it had earlier in Europe for coffee and sugar) 8) By mid-80s: crack epidemic epidemic of violence in ghetto racial disparities in sentencing: 5-year mandatory minimum for 5 grams … View This Document
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And Other by Original Member of Infamous 1980s Crack Cocaine Gang Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly drug career as an associate of “the supreme team” during the crack epidemic of the 1980s, and associated … Read Content
The Crack Controversy – A Rapid Panic Was Sweeping The …
Of the 100-to-1 sentence disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine was a result to what Congress thought was an “epidemic’ that was about to destroy American society. Congress felt crack cocaine was a much more dangerous drug than powder … Fetch Content
The Prescription Drug Epidemic
This is the new crack cocaine epidemic, except that this is far worse. The drugs are more easily obtained; the supply is seemingly endless, and our youth falsely believes that prescription narcotics are a safe alternative to other illicit drugs. … Retrieve Full Source
The Social Construction Of Knowledge
Focus, in particular, on the emergence of “the crack problem” in American society. In the late 1980s, crack, a cocaine derivative, came to be seen as one of the most evil scourges on the social landscape.Even today we hear it described with terms like plague and epidemic. … Document Viewer
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Emergence of the crack cocaine epidemic.339 Finally, both the media and the Sentencing Commission understood the Act to create harsher sentences … Access Full Source
Testimony Of Marc Mauer – Prepared For The House Judiciary …
On average, crack cocaine defendants do not play a sophisticated role in the drug trade. Nearly two-thirds (61.5 percent) of crack cocaine defendants were identified … Return Document
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crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Bureau of Narcotics . Harry Anslinger. 1937 Marijuana Tax Act. The DuPont Corporation and war on drugs … Fetch Doc
Cocaine/Crack
Likewise, the sale and use of cocaine processed into “crack” has become epidemic.-II-Cocaine and crack are . HIGHLY ADDICTIVE. and . VERY DANGEROUS … Read More
Measuring Crack Cocaine And Its Impact
Crack Cocaine and the Inner City. Austin: Harcourt Brace College Publishers. Cook, Philip, and John Laub, 1998, “The Unprecedented Epidemic in Youth Violence,” in … Read Document
Awareness Training On Cocaine
The survey also suggests that the leveling off of cocaine crack use may be related to the particularly intense and early media coverage of the hazards of crack cocaine. This precipitated an early “capping off” of an epidemic by deterring many would be crack cocaine users and by motivating many … Access Content
Guardians And Caretakers: African American Grandmothers As …
Raising the children of the crack-cocaine epidemic. Qualitative Health Research, 4(3), 281-303. Saluter, A. F. l992. Marital status and living arrangements: March l991, Current Population … Read More
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Much of its impact was estimated as a result of the consequences, rather than the process, of the epidemic. Crack, early days Newer preparations of cocaine, such as crack or free-base were suddenly playing an increasingly important role on the streets, These preparations were far more toxic than … Retrieve Content
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B In Craig Renarman's and Harry Levine's article entitled "The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in America's Latest Drug Scare," the authors attempt to expose and to deal with some of the societal problems that have resulted from the over-exaggeration of crack–cocaine as an "epidemic … Return Document
USA Today Article
Experiment to attack a growing crack cocaine epidemic in Miami. They rely on treatment, rigorous supervision and accountability as a way to help, for the most … Get Doc
BMC Public Health BioMed Central
May have been involved in the crack cocaine epidemic, and in the escalation of violent crime in the US [4-7]. Sug-gestive evidence has been collected that the increase in … Fetch Doc