Cocaine

protected from crime, and are most likely to suffer from injustice within the criminal justice system” (Stern, 73). “New laws were passed in 1986 and 1988 making punishments worse for involvement with crack cocaine much more severe than for power cocaine, with the main users of crack cocaine being poor black people” (Stern, 79). “Unemployed people are subject to harsher sentencing, but unemployed black and Latino young men are sentenced more harshly than unemployed white men” (Stern, 80).…

By the 1980s, crack cocaine was huge due to the drug epidemic. The government started to tighten down on crack dealers and give them longer, harsher sentences. This only allowed them to make connections in jail so when other inmates got out, they were able to sell crack even…

Ms. Spivey is a 23 year old female who presented to the ED via EMS after overdosing on an unknown amount of un-prescribed medications. At the time of the assessment Ms. Spivey reports only remember taking one pill for her back pain and waking up in the ED. She denies attempting to harm herself, homicidal ideation, and symptoms of psychosis. Ms. Spivey reports a history of depression and anxiety. She expresses relational issues, financial issues, and unemployment are stressors contributing to…

people that will be driving while under the influence of marijuana. Lastly marijuana will impact the younger generation negatively in ways that marijuana will be easily attainable for them, and drug dealers will try to upsell other things such as cocaine to the young adults which is highly addictive. Therefore, cannabis/marijuana should not be legalized in…

Many of today’s illegal drugs such as marijuana and cocaine, amongst other substances and psychedelics, currently used in society were once in fact legal many thousands of years ago. Several of these drugs (if not all) were commonly practiced for medicinal and spiritual reasons. However, in this day and age, when people think of ‘drugs’ negative connotations of its supposed danger and “badness” perpetuated from the media began to appear. Drugs and drug policy have always been up for hot debate…

implementation of “law and order,” the government announcing a war on drugs. However, a racial disparity became evident as possession of crack cocaine held a more severe sentence that of pure cocaine (Source B). This differentiation effectively criminalized more African Americans since crack cocaine was more prominent in their communities due to its low price. Cocaine was more of a city problem, used by wealthy whites who received lighter punishments. Soon, hundreds of thousands of African…

cause changes to the brain’s normal structure and functioning of neurotransmitters, or chemical messengers. Drugs like marijuana and heroin mimic the structure of these neurotransmitters, causing abnormal signals to be sent out. Other drugs like cocaine disrupt the regulation of neurotransmitter signaling, causing certain signals to be amplified while others are muted, thereby altering the way the brain communicates with the body (“Understanding Addiction,” n.d.). The National Institute on Drug…

This documentary blew me away: it called me out on issues I didn’t even knew existed and filled in the gaps on my previously ignorant view of history. An underlying theme of the film was the continuous control of African-Americans under systems of racial control that have “appeared to die, but then are reborn in a new form tailored to the needs of the time” (Alexander). Hence, after the civil war, mass numbers of African Americans were arrested for trivial crimes like loitering. “It was our…

In fact some of the break down products for example, cocaine are even more powerful in terms of their impact on the baby because its actually broken down differently inside the baby than in an adult and its more of a neurotoxin to the baby’s developing brain then cocaine is to an adult. Another important factor in the way drugs effect unborn baby is how far along they are in their development. There are varies…

The term "addiction" is most commonly used with a person 's desire to consume alcohol or drugs. Addictions can be either physical, in your mind or both. By that, it simply means being addicted to any type of substance is all on you. Your body and mind can stop using any type of dangerous substance that you let into your body if you wanted to; key word “you”. You are the key to helping yourself out, it all starts with you. Assuming that addictions became a primary focus on a person life it can…