Hill: Tech Should Ban Smoking, Fight Tobacco Companies

Hill: Tech should ban smoking, fight tobacco companies

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Statistics

That's more than crack, cocaine and heroin combined, and that's only secondhand smoke. Some people use these statistics to justify banning cigarette smoking on campus, but I say these statistics are trivial. Surely, those who died from secondhand smoke … Read more on The Daily Toreador (registration)

How drugs, lack of safe housing fuel Vancouver's mental-health crisis

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Statistics

Prior to the 1980s, drugs were relatively expensive and unavailable. But now, even people on social assistance can afford to get their fix from drugs such as crystal meth and crack cocaine, Dr. Lohrasbe said. “When most mentally ill people are housed … Read more on The Globe and Mail

The new Jim Crow

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Statistics

A 2000 study of the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported that white students use powder cocaine at seven times the rate of black students, use crack cocaine at eight times the rate of black students and use heroin at seven times the rate of black … Read more on Southside Pride