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’s heroin capital—with the DEA and the city’s health department estimating that roughly 10 percent of the city’s residents are addicted. The crack epidemic, at its height, involved fewer than half a million users a year nationwide, according to SAMHSA estimates. But, as with crack cocaine, the numbers of
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by Thomas Philippon · 29 Oct 2019 · 401pp · 109,892 words
worst overdose epidemic in US history. Overdose deaths from prescription opioid pain relievers nearly quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, exceeding the death rate during the crack epidemic of the 1980s. Mortality due to crack was two per hundred thousand. Mortality due to opioids is ten per hundred thousand and has reached forty
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to the growing, successful, high-tech towns and cities.7 African American inner-city communities faced a crisis of crack cocaine in the 1980s. The crack epidemic shows both contrasts and parallels with the current opioid epidemic. Crack was cheap and offered an immediate high that was highly addictive. Crime rates increased
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or physical pain were available at an (arguably) affordable price to populations that were hungry for the escape that they seemed to offer. During the crack epidemic, the inner city offered few legitimate avenues of progress. In the opioid crisis, it is less educated whites, many of whom do not see a
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by Nick Reding · 1 Jul 2009 · 250pp · 83,367 words
their duties.” Glenn Garvin of the Herald called the Oregonian’s coverage “nonsensical.” Craig Reinarman, whose criticism of the Reagan administration’s response to the crack epidemic was put forth in the book Crack in America, worried that the exorbitant meth coverage by papers like the Oregonian had further directed money to
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by Bruce Schneier · 14 Feb 2012 · 503pp · 131,064 words
factors, however, can account for virtually all of the observed decline in crime: increases in the number of police, the rising prison population, the waning crack epidemic and the legalization of abortion.” (15) A recent study of 75,000 households served by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District and Puget Sound Energy found
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by Beth Macy · 4 Mar 2019 · 441pp · 124,798 words
? An eighty-minute production, Hell Up in East Harlem was a gritty, street-level documentary about a Harlem block plagued by gang violence during the crack epidemic of the late 1980s and ’90s. It was all available on YouTube and so, around minute thirty, was the source of the tsunami of misery
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did the number of fatalities. The death rate from drug overdoses in the US rose from below 5 per 100,000 in 1990, despite the crack epidemic, to over 15 per 100,000 in 2015. This new drug wave was entirely legal. Thus, the urban drug market was somewhat less important—though
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that tore apart urban neighborhoods. We will return to these issues in chapter 9. Fortunately, the opioid overdose epidemic is not as violent as the crack epidemic and has not led to the same burst in mass imprisonment. Reducing Deceit through Better Incentives There are many culprits in the opioid epidemic. The
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. Working-Class Life.” “stresses related to the COVID-19”: Stephenson, “Drug Overdose Deaths Head toward Record Number in 2020, CDC Warns.” crack cocaine epidemic: Turner, “Crack Epidemic”; Grogger and Willis, “The Emergence of Crack Cocaine and the Rise in Urban Crime Rates.” High crime rates caused people: Cullen and Levitt, “Crime, Urban
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. www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/coronavirus-uae-to-suspend-all-china-flights-except-for-beijing.html. Turner, Deonna S. “Crack Epidemic.” Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Accessed December 29, 2020. www.britannica.com/topic/crack-epidemic. Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Significance of the Frontier in American History. London: Penguin, 2008. Tuthill, Kathleen. “John Snow and
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rising since the 1970s, reached extreme levels in the early 1990s (see Figure 4.16). Carjackings, rapes, murders, shootings—all had increased exponentially. With the crack epidemic surging and gun violence rising, many were afraid to walk down the street in urban areas at night for fear of getting mugged. The surge
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by Cathy O'Neil · 15 Mar 2022 · 318pp · 73,713 words
brightest futures were studying for college entrance exams and padding their résumés with all sorts of extracurricular activities. In other words, the response to the crack epidemic, in most of the country, was to blame the victims. This meant taking only minimal measures to help afflicted communities confront this terrifying public health
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them had snorted a few lines. Crack, in their eyes, was a “ghetto” drug. They associated it with other people. At the height of the crack epidemic, this distinction was encoded into racist federal law. The so-called 100-to-1 rule, passed in 1986, stipulated a sentence of no less than
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other words, if you are told by all the world that you are not worthy, you often end up feeling that way. The result: The crack epidemic unleashed a frenzy of punching-down shame. What was the alternative? Consider Blossom trying to sleep under the Florida bridge. If she were your sister
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a mental hospital to find common ground with people addicted to drugs. Victims are no longer as hidden from the rest of us. While the crack epidemic was largely confined to the nation’s cities, the twenty-first-century opioid crisis spills across the map, into suburbs and rural towns. It’s
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of Jeff, a white college graduate in Binghamton, New York, shows the differences—from cultural diversity to geographic span—between the opioid epidemic and the crack epidemic. But it also shows how much hasn’t changed. Like victims of the crack crisis, including Blossom, Jeff suffered under layer upon layer of shame
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, 37–56 blaming/stigmatization of victims of addiction, 41–45, 46–48, 50, 56 choice/responsibility tropes, 39, 41–42, 44, 45, 49, 51 the crack epidemic and its social impacts, 39–43 the criminalization of addiction, 40–41, 42–43, 44–45, 48, 51, 53–54 the opioid epidemic and Purdue
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Choi, Kristen, 164 Churchill, Winston, 175 civil rights movements. See punching-up campaigns Clinton, Bill, 66 Clohessy, David, 11–12, 168 cocaine, 42. See also crack epidemic cognitive dissonance, 10, 14, 112–13, 144, 185 the mythology of the Lost Cause, 117–20 collective action. See public policy; punching-up campaigns and
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–68 mask wearing and masking controversies, 153–59, 163 stigmatization of COVID victims, 158–59 vaccine skepticism and resistance, 161–65 Covington boys, 97–100 crack epidemic, 39–46 Blossom Rogers’s story, 37–38, 39, 45–46, 168, 211 Crews, Bill, 156 criminal justice system: the criminalization of addiction, 40–41
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–88 R racism and racial justice: Black Codes, 73 the Central Park birdwatching incident, Karens, and shaming for racism, 109–14, 116, 122–24 the crack epidemic and, 41–43, 44 the Lost Cause, 117–19 poverty and, 58–59, 59–60, 61 racist biases in software, 186–87 reckoning with racism
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States is predominantly a white issue, but the use of drugs in poor areas of the country was established as the norm because of the crack epidemic decades earlier. Is the opioid crisis an accident, or could it be the new crack cocaine push to target the poor white communities? It should
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