crack epidemic

Vaccinating Cocaine Use Away

Vaccinating Cocaine Use Away

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In the case of cocaine, where is there no drug intervention option at all, when you have someone who is in serious danger of overdose, you need something to take away the effects of the cocaine. Something … Cocaine, especially when smoked as crack … Read more on Scientific American (blog)

 

A half-century after the 'dream': 10 signposts on America's race journey

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The Crack Wars Class Project


The Crack Wars Class Project – This video was made for a World Civilization class and portrays the effects of the crack epidemic that hit the United States. *I do not own any of the clips …

 

Raleigh man charged with making crack, trafficking in cocaine

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RALEIGH — Police on Tuesday charged 33-year-old Calvin Delonta Watson with cocaine trafficking and manufacturing crack cocaine in a Raleigh Housing Authority home. Police also charged Watson, with possession of a stolen Ruger handgun and … Read more on News & Observer

DATELINE: The C.I.A. and the Crack Epidemic


DATELINE: the C.I.A. and the crack epidemic – an old DATELINE piece about Crack and the CIA…

 

Decades Later, Drugs Didn't Hold 'Crack Babies' Back

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Decades Later, Drugs Didn't Hold 'Crack Babies' Back. July 31, 2013. The crack epidemic made headlines in the '80s and '90s, and doctors despaired for the children born to crack-addicted mothers. But a new study suggests that many so-called 'crack … Read more on KUHF-FM

 

Warren County tackling the heroin epidemic

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The TIFF Discovery Lineup Includes Drunken Irishmen, Stranded Australians

The TIFF Discovery Lineup Includes Drunken Irishmen, Stranded Australians

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1982 Tommy Oliver, USA World Premiere 1982, a film inspired by true events at the onset of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia, tells the story of a father and his efforts to protect his gifted daughter from the insidious epidemic which has literally … Read more on Twitch

 

Would you give up your seat for Jennifer Aniston?

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Linda Grimes Gets Her 'Life-Fixing Jollies Vicariously'

Linda Grimes gets her 'life-fixing jollies vicariously'

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Add a healthy dose of triangular lust — hellooo, Joe and Ranger — and it's downright addictive. Then there's Trixie Belden, the intrepid teenage sleuth who occupied a large section of my childhood … Escaping from the zoo with their new baby orang … Read more on USA TODAY

 

'Minecraft' follow-up '0x10c' dead but not buried

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Two Powerful Signals of a Major Shift on Crime

Two Powerful Signals of a Major Shift on Crime

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A generation ago, amid a crack epidemic, state and federal lawmakers enacted a wave of tough-on-crime measures that resulted in an 800 percent increase in the number of prisoners in the United States, even as the population grew by only a third. The … Read more on New York Times

 

Sentencing, frisking reversals shake up nation's war on drugs

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Commentary: Forget 'bad'-Food Edicts; Target Poverty

Commentary: Forget 'bad'-food edicts; target poverty

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Following a group of cocaine-exposed babies born during the height of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia between 1989 and 1992, researchers found no significant difference between cocaine-exposed fetuses and controls when it came to markers such as … Read more on Alexandria Town Talk

 

Holder To Scale Back Use Of Harsh Drug Sentences

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The U.S. prison population has increased by about one-third since the 1980s, when legislation was passed to get tough on the use of marijuana and crack cocaine. Holder will also announce that older, non-violent inmates will be released if it's … Read more on WBUR

Crack Babies Grew Up OK; It's Poverty That's the Real Problem

Crack Babies Grew Up OK; It's Poverty That's the Real Problem

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Television show after television show, article after article proclaimed that children born to addicts of the increasingly prevalent "crack" cocaine were all-but-guaranteed to have birth defects, including extremely low IQs and severe emotional problems … Read more on DailyFinance

 

Decades Later, Drugs Didn't Hold 'Crack Babies' Back

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Sean Philpott: Cracking the Health Code

Sean Philpott: Cracking The Health Code

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The babies exposed to cocaine in utero were more likely to be born prematurely, of low birth weight, exhibit delays in cognitive development, or be diagnosed with an attention deficit disorder. The crack epidemic, it was feared, would result in a … Read more on WAMC

 


(Crazy Brah) Niggers hate the truth

 

Oxford Road crack addict jailed for dealing heroin and cocaine

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'Crack Baby' Study Ends With Unexpected but Clear Result

'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but clear result

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A crack epidemic was raging in Philadelphia in 1989 when Hallam Hurt, then chair of neonatology at Albert Einstein Medical Center on North Broad Street, began a study to evaluate the effects of in-utero cocaine exposure on babies. In maternity wards in … Read more on Philly.com

 

Vermont officials fear 'collateral damage' from decriminalization

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