Substance Abuse Increasing In Inner-City Minorities
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Substance abuse is an ever increasing epidemic facing America's inner-
city minorities. There are several different drugs that are gaining popularity
amongst inner-city youths 1. Juice, that is marijuana soaked in embalming fluid
is starting to show up in more and more inner east coast cities 2. ....
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.... there is so much media hype about the drug
abuse amongst the poor is because the rich have the political power to cover it
up, the poor don't.
Crack is cocaine mixed with baking soda and cooked in to rock form 6.
Even though crack and cocaine are the same drug (just in different forms) the
courts give out stiffer sentences for crack offenders than powder cocaine
offenders 7. According to federal law if a person is caught with five grams of
crack they get a mandatory five year sentence 8. ....
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