The Crack

leads to addiction. However, the issue of drug use is not a new problem in America. The Crack epidemic stands out as one of the most popular drug use crisis in the history of America. This epidemic exposed the hidden decay in the American society and the vulnerability of the society to harmful drugs. Furthermore, the epidemic exposed the weakness…

Cocaine has been used for a long time, way before recorded history. It is a known fact that cocaine comes from “western South America in countries such as Peru and Bolivia” (Carroll 13). Cocaine comes in different forms such as “coco plants, paste, cocaine hydrochloride, freebase cocaine, and crack cocaine” (Olive 9-11). The use of crack cocaine can lead to a higher chance in committing a crime, neurological problems, and dependence on the drug that is hard to escape. It is certain that…

Amber Bauer 2nd hour Crack Cocaine 1) Crack or crack cocaine is an illegal drug that is made from cocaine. Cocaine is mostly an illegal drug that comes from the leaves of a plant called coca. When people smoke crack cocaine they have a feeling they are high. The name crack comes from the cracking noise the drug makes as it is smoked. The cracking noise is caused by evaporating water escaping. In parts of the world making, smoking, or selling crack cocaine is illegal and is very…

Daniel disclosed his use of crack cocaine. He has a history of alcohol use as well, but claims only occasionally. Daniel states he began using at the age of seventeen. Daniel explains that when he initially began using cocaine it was only recreational, so about two or three weeks, after he began to increase his intake. He would then snort cocaine and smoke it to the point he was awake at all times and was alert of everything around him. He later became dependent on the substance, in which he…

livingroom my mom told me and devon to go outside so that the adults could talk, something she always does. So, very reluctantly i trudged outside with devon who wasn’t any happier to have to be outside than I was. We putzed around for awhile. Then I said, “Hey, didn’t we just buy a skateboard at a garage sale,”. Devon nodded but said nothing obviously bored out of his mind. Opening the door I went back in the house and grabbed the skateboard. I walked outside noticing that the board looked…

There was a truck putting their furniture inside the trunk. Nancy thought that this was really weird so then she thought and thought until she thought that they might have been thefts. So then when they were not looking nancy ran into the house and looked around. then through the crack of the door she saw what the thief look liked and it fitted the description by Judy’s aunt's . Then nancy quickly hid behind a dresser and look from a crack. Then, one of the thieves, saw Nancy hiding. He shoved…

society and cities such as Los Angeles has withstood the test of time. Los Angeles felt the blow from crack cocaine early on as 1980s as it was a new way for addicts to get their “kicks.” In fact by 1982, “Los Angeles hospital emergency rooms reported the nation's greatest increase in cocaine overdoses,” which now established Los Angeles as a city that was hardest hit, the most early of all American cities from the crack epidemic (Witkin, 46). This researched fact in addition with another…

technological advances – black communities in the ghetto were left jobless (Alexander, 2011). With no means of legitimate income in the inner-cities the appeal of selling illicit drugs such as crack cocaine increased as did the media coverage on the developing violence as a result of this drug market. The media portrayed crack as the destruction of urban communities because of black “crack whores” who had “crack babies” that would create a “subhuman” underclass; this coverage reinforced racial…

The three officers under J.T. made only $7 an hour, and the foot soldiers made just $3.30. One also has to consider that for this little pay, gang members also “stand a greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas” (Levitt & Dubner, 2009, p. 102). Gang members do this because when they grow up crack dealing was “the best job they thought they had access to” (Levitt & Dubner, 2009, p. 102). But like most every other…

According to,(), the U.S. government saw crack cocaine being used mainly by lower class African Americans and they used their power to punish them although crack cocaine is the same as powder cocaine just in rock form. The punishment for crack cocaine became 100-1 in regards to the sentence for powder. They government also made a mandatory sentence for crack users which caused the incarceration rates to skyrocket. Multiple judges did not agree with these mandatory sentences as they felt they…