Cocaine

The federal and state governments began to regulate and prohibit certain forms of drug use in the early 1900s. The nonmedical use of opiates (mostly morphine and heroin) and cocaine was prohibited in 1914 at the federal level, and by the 1930s marijuana use was prohibited as well. (Nicholas & Churchill 2012) In 1951, the U.S. Congress established harsh mandatory minimum sentences for distribution and possession of marijuana and…

My childhood was not easy; it consisted of struggling through a broken home. As a young child I dealt with a drug addicted mother and a life filled with poverty in Oakland, California. My mother was addicted to crack cocaine, and could never keep a steady job due to her addiction. There were times in our lives where my brother and I went without food, water, or electricity. My father and mother divorced when I was still a toddler, and he was rarely present and provided no financial support.…

exntensive history with cocain use, often reprort that the pleausre that they receive by utlzing the drug gradually eceasees, even though their addictive behavior towards the drug, gradually intensifies. A recent study that documented the effects that cocaine had on the nuerons in the ward system of mice, sheds some light as to why this may be the case for that of cocaiine users and other illicit drug abusers as well. The study dmeonstarted that their was a concain induced imblance, in the…

Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling. Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer. New York: The New Press, 2013. 111pp. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world; 2.3 million inmates which equals a rate of 730 inmates to every 100,000 citizens. As Marc Mauer explains our correctional system began with the premise of rehabilitation but has now evolved into a retributive system. Race to Incarcerate A graphic retelling was the collaborative effort of Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer.…

drugs. When this happens, the person doing drugs will need to do more and more of the drug to get the same feeling.” Cocaine quickly invade the dopamine-carrying cells when enters the body. Because of the ability to bind cocaine molecules with these nerve entrapment cells is very strong, it can easily occupy the original dopamine position. when the dopamine position is full of cocaine filled, it cannot find the storage location. So, it can only be forced combined with its receptor to…

Ignorance is bliss. The song “The A Team” written by Ed Sheeran should be valued because it talks about a young woman who is homeless and addicted to class A drugs. Class A drugs consist of heroin, cocaine, and ecstasy among many more, they are the highest form of drugs available. This woman in Sheeran’s song is so desperate to receive the drugs that she turns to prostitution to be able to afford them. This song brings awareness of drug abuse and the consequences of using. In the lyrics “Goes…

For example, the 100 to 1 crack-cocaine crime bill was specifically aimed at low class, poor communities. Powder cocaine was an expensive drug; therefore, there was no surplus of it in the black community. Blacks used crack because it was a cheaper, diluted, smokeable form of cocaine. Both powder cocaine and crack cocaine were potent and deadly, but crack was treated more severely because minorities most commonly used it. Simple…

In the United States there is a problem of overcrowding on our prisons. Overcrowding is when the amount of prisoners in a prison exceed the amount of space that the prison has. This is a growing concern because it can cause many problems. It can cause misconduct among the inmates, psychological stress, poor prison conditions, and post release recidivism. The problem continues to grow and it seems nothing is being done about the issue and many people don’t even know we have this problem. However,…

Investment in Whiteness will be used to show the racial oppression of African American females. Portrayed as sexual deviants, bad Black mothers, and drug addicted mothers that are punished by racist drug policies following the introduction of crack cocaine to inner-city communities. These racial policies of oppression imposed on African American women are documented in Dorothy E. Roberts’s “Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and The Right of Privacy” and will be…

Societal cultural beliefs dictate that a person behave as a decent human being by treating others with kindness and respect as well as being a law abiding citizen. Culture plays a large role by shaping the individuals expectations about avoiding drugs and warning about the dangers of drug abuse. Consequently, when heroin abusers put a higher value on drugs and a lower value on acceptable culture, a negative relationship developed with expected cultural beliefs. When individual groups, such as…