Crack In America
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Crack In America
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Author : Craig Reinarman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1997-09
Crack In America written by Craig Reinarman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09 with Political Science categories.
A team of veteran drug researchers in medicine, law, and the social sciences provides the most comprehensive, penetrating, and original analysis of the crack cocaine problem in America to date. Helps readers understand why the United States has the most repressive, expensive, yet least effective drug policy in the Western world.
Crack S Decline
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Author : Andrew Lang Golub
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Crack S Decline written by Andrew Lang Golub and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Cocaine abuse categories.
Crack
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Author : David Farber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-02
Crack written by David Farber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-02 with History categories.
The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.
The Emergence Of Crack Cocaine Abuse
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Author : Edith Fairman Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2002
The Emergence Of Crack Cocaine Abuse written by Edith Fairman Cooper and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Psychology categories.
Cocaine was once considered the elite's drug, with a price so high that only the very wealthy could afford it, and thought by many to be 'safe'. But during the 1980s, a dangerous and cheap derivative began appearing on the street. This drug, crack, is a cocaine free-base produced relatively safely and easily. Because of its low production costs, crack became popular among the lower classes, leading to an epidemic in the late 1980s, with estimates that over one million people used crack cocaine. The drug's name became synonymous with gangs, crime, and violence. Because of the intensity and apparent suddenness of the crack crisis, people began to wonder if there were any warning signs public officials missed and how exactly crack spread across the nation. Some even floated the theory that agencies like the CIA and FBI encouraged the use of crack in inner cities. No matter where it came from, crack is a menace that, though no longer 'epidemic', must be combated along with all other illegal drugs. This book makes a close examination of the development, responses to, and effect of the crack cocaine crisis in the United States. Included are descriptions of cocaine, crack, and the free-basing process. Also examined are the health questions surrounding the abuse problems and the allegations that governmental authorities had advance knowledge of crack. With the war on drugs a perpetual and critical battle in America, the facts and analyses presented here are of paramount importance to the understanding of a major issue of society's safety.
When Crack Was King
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Author : Donovan X. Ramsey
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-07-02
When Crack Was King written by Donovan X. Ramsey and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-02 with History categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic “A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.”—The Washington Post “A poignant and compelling re-examination of a tragic era in America history . . . insightful . . . and deeply moving.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • ONE OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND VULTURE’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, She Reads, Electric Lit, The Mary Sue The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan’s war on drugs, journalist Donovan X. Ramsey’s exacting analysis traces the path from the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement to the devastating realities we live with today: a racist criminal justice system, continued mass incarceration and gentrification, and increased police brutality. When Crack Was King follows four individuals to give us a startling portrait of crack’s destruction and devastating legacy: Elgin Swift, an archetype of American industry and ambition and the son of a crack-addicted father who turned their home into a “crack house”; Lennie Woodley, a former crack addict and sex worker; Kurt Schmoke, the longtime mayor of Baltimore and an early advocate of decriminalization; and Shawn McCray, community activist, basketball prodigy, and a founding member of the Zoo Crew, Newark’s most legendary group of drug traffickers. Weaving together riveting research with the voices of survivors, When Crack Was King is a crucial reevaluation of the era and a powerful argument for providing historically violated communities with the resources they deserve.
The Enemy Within
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Enemy Within written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Cocaine abuse categories.
Abstract: This report summarizes what is known about the use and abuse of cocaine and its derivative, crack-cocaine. The effects of cocaine and crack are examined. Its also describes how U.S. social service and public health systems interact with cocaine-using parents and their drug-exposed children, and provides examples of model programs that have been developed to cope with these problems.
Crack
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Author : David Farber
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-10
Crack written by David Farber and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-10 with History categories.
The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.
Dark Alliance
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Author : Gary Webb
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
Dark Alliance written by Gary Webb and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014 In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance” story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.
History Of Crack Cocaine In America
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Author : LaVelle Hendricks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-04-05
History Of Crack Cocaine In America written by LaVelle Hendricks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-05 with categories.
The Big White Lie
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Author : Michael Levine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-10-01
The Big White Lie written by Michael Levine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with Law categories.
In The Big White Lie, Michael Levine, former DEA agent and bestselling author of Deep Cover, leads the reader through a decade of undercover work. Levine's prose is fast-moving, highly readable, and hard-hitting. He tells how the beautiful South American "Queen of Cocaine" seduced the CIA into protecting her from prosecution as she sold drugs to Americans; how CIA-sponsored paramilitary ousted, tortured, and killed members of a pro-DEA Bolivian ruling party; and how the CIA created La Corporacion, the "General Motors of cocaine," which led directly to the current cocaine/crack epidemic. As a 25-year veteran agent for the DEA, Michael Levine worked deep-cover cases from Bangkok to Buenos Aires, and witnessed firsthand scandalous violations of drug laws by U.S. officials.