Nothing blatant‚ mind you‚ but a dark and ominous feeling overshadows me. Peering through the crack‚ I find a young man in his early teens‚ maybe thirteen‚ wearing jeans and a hoodie. He’s just standing there (not saying a word‚ just standing there) looking at me beneath that hoodie and a heavy set of bangs. Even with his head tilted down‚ I knew
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The response to the epidemic was not only political but social as well. Local communities reacted to the epidemic with local programs and educational propaganda. An organization known as CRACK or Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity was started in the 1990’s specifically targeting female drug users (Paltrow). The program offered women $200 dollars to undergo sterilization. An overwhelming percentage of the population targeted were African American. Children were stigmatized as a result of the panic
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heroin epidemic in the United States because modern pharmaceutical companies have allowed production of legal‚ regulated prescription opiates that led to the increase of drug abuse and overdose deaths. Pharmaceutical reps receive big bonuses for pushing their products on doctors‚ which resulted in they get the large profit and thus forgot for a certain responsibility to their patients. How many lives have been limited by the use of painkillers? Who is responsible for the pain-pill epidemic? How many
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The Client That Stole Christmas Chewing a large bite of turkey sandwich‚ Kristen Hammersmith pressed her palms together behind her back‚ relishing the series of cracks and pops between her shoulders. It had been a long year‚ and she’d spent too much of it hunched over this desk. She believed that Driscoll did important work—building reliable‚ if expensive‚ software for businesses whose systems couldn’t afford to fail—but it could be stressful. Sometimes she had nightmares about a bug in the Driscoll
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the world called crack. Crack was known as freebase cocaine in the 1970’s but required the ether to make. Freeway Ricky Ross was a drug dealer from Los Angeles who simplified the freebase process by using baking soda creating a hard substance called crack cocaine and spreading the world. Crack Cocaine is heated in a pipe‚ and can be either smoked or injected and gives a fast‚ intense high‚ while powder cocaine is snorted through the nose with a delayed and less intense high. Crack became peoples drug
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Retrieved on May 1‚ 2012 from http://www.shmoop.com/drugs-america/timeline.html “Just Say No: Address to the Nation.” (2007). Retrieved on May 1‚ 2012 from http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/reagan/stories/speech.archive/just.say. no.html “The Crack Epidemic.” (2012). Retrieved on May 1‚ 2012 from htt://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/history/1985-1990.html “Thirty Years of America’s Drug War.” (2012). Retrieved on May 1‚ 2012 from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron/ “Tobacco:
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Obesity is one of today’s most blatantly visible but yet most neglected health issues in America causing an escalating global epidemic of overweight. Also known as “globesity” that is taking over the United States (Controlling the Global Obesity Epidemic). Although‚ obesity may not be the Black Death‚ it is still a severe health crisis that needs to be treated immediately (Griffin). Statistics show that two-thirds of adults and nearly one-third of children struggle with either being overweight
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CRACK COCAINE ABUSE Physiological Psychology PSY 350 Professor Cindi-Marie Willoughby INTRO: What comes to your mind when you hear the phrase “cracking up”? Usually one thinks of laughter and good times. Well‚ let me give you another scenario that isn’t quite so pleasant. Cracking up also refers to the abuse of crack cocaine. Even though cocaine was once used for medicinal purposes‚ crack cocaine abuse has been the cause of many deaths. Since crack cocaine abuse causes respiratory and
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spice‚ cocaine‚ meth‚ and crack. In addition‚ there are legal drugs that can often lead to abuse‚ such as‚ alcohol‚ tobacco‚ and prescription drugs. Crack cocaine is
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tested positive for the presence of at least one drug at the time of their arrest” (http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/criminal-justice-reform). This information gives some insight into the pervasiveness of the presenting problem. Drug addiction is an epidemic among those being arrested. Incarceration has been the “big stick” of numerous administrations when it comes to fighting the drug war. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 enacted new federal laws governing how we deal with drugs in the country. These
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