Crack cocaine

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.…

easier say, than done. Drugs can affect and change the brain and the body making the process harder to quit and harder for their body to recover from the substance abuse. The controlled substance of cocaine which is made from a leaves of coca plant from South America. The controlled substance of cocaine is the most powerful addictive…

1850s, Albert Niemann created cocaine by isolating the coca plant’s main ingredient and mixing it with other chemicals. Niemann thought he created a drug that would benefit the whole world, and for twenty to thirty years or so, the world thought so too, until the severe side effects were later discovered. Cocaine first entered America in 1863 as an unknown ingredient in a fancy wine, and this caused Americans to put cocaine in everything. Americans idealized cocaine and named it “the wonder…

history of cocaine. Cocaine has brought a lot issues on society. Cocaine is very powerful and continues to have an impact in society. Cocaine has caused many issues such as physical and psychological issues. Cocaine damages the brain and individuals continue to consume the illicit drug. Cocaine can be replaced with medication while in treatment. Cocaine has been around three thousand years before the birth of Christ. Cocaine was isolated as a coca leaves in 1859. In 1880s cocaine started…

perception or consciousness. The FDA specifically defines a drug as “a substance (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body” (2012). The main types of drugs used today are alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, heroin, crack, cocaine, steroids, methamphetamines, barbiturates, marijuana, and all manner of prescription drugs (NIDA, n.d.). A handful of these drugs are illegal in the United States, some are only conditionally legal, and at least one, caffeine, is legal and…

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…

Cocaine is a white powder that is most commonly snorted off a flat surface or out of the hand, but, can be put under the gum line or dissolved into fluid. Like heroin, cocaine is a very fast rush that kicks in fairly quickly. When inhaled the powder goes straight to the brain while working as a numbing agent, it was cause loos of feeling…

Argumentative paragraph one: Cocaine is a drug which found on the leaves of plants. As well as it is a strong central nervous system drug which causes changes in behaviour by altering the power of connection between neurons. It causes desirable and undesirable behaviour on users (health, 2013). Desirable behaviour which include, rush, elevation of mood, self-confidence, increased energy, alertness, sexual excitement and decreased need for food. Undesirable behaviour on users which include crash,…

Cocaine, a highly addictive and euphoria-producing stimulant drug is derived from the cocoa leaves which are grown primarily in the South American countries of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Columbia. Cocaine is a highly addictive drug of abuse. The drug is categorized as a stimulant; According to the Center for Substance Abuse Research, stimulants heighten the body’s activity, including increases in energy, alertness, heart rate, and blood pressure. Ancient South American cultures…

alienate certain groups in society. For example, in reading number 5 points out, “passage of narcotics laws and their stringent enforcement required a reviled “other” in order to create an anti-drug consensus… “Cocaine crazed” southern black men, marijuana smoking Mexican migrant, and pregnant crack whore” (Inciardi and Mcelrath, 2011, p.66). What stood out to me in the course of the semester were the drug…