There was no wave of compassion when addicts were hooked on crack

news is old and obvious. people in the reagan administration even admit to using crack to vilify the community.
 
All crack is - is cocaine heated up with a little bit of backing soda and water in it. I've done coke and smoked crack several times when I was in my early 20's and I don't see how people can get addicted to it. It would make me stay up all night and party, but when I finally went to sleep and woke up the next day doing a line of coke or smoking a crack rock was the furthest thing from my mind.
 
I don't think I know anyone that isn't somehow dealing with drug abuse. Whether it be a family member or friend. I know where I grew up in Long Island heroin is everywhere. The high school I went to had drug counselor's on site now. I've known several people who have died there.

My brother in-law is 30yrs old, degree in engineering, worked for the gov't and we just found out a few weeks ago is a full blown meth addict. The guy is insane now and threw everything away.
 
What's your point?

People tend to be more compassionate about problems that affect them personally or hit close to home.

You could argue that the African American community is not very compassionate or sympathetic to the people in their own community in regards to drug addiction, domestic abuse, sexual orientation discrimination, mental health issues or teen pregnancies.

Or is it the job of every other ethnicity to solve problems endemic (but not unique) to the African American community?
 
Crack makes you superman and kind of violent. Heroin makes you a zombie.

If you want to draw a parallel then you would have to draw a parallel with the chinese opium dens.
 
Lionel Mandrake said:
All crack is - is cocaine heated up with a little bit of backing soda and water in it. I've done coke and smoked crack several times when I was in my early 20's and I don't see how people can get addicted to it. It would make me stay up all night and party, but when I finally went to sleep and woke up the next day doing a line of coke or smoking a crack rock was the furthest thing from my mind.
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Could be some people just are not the type to get addicted easily. In my 20s, I never did CrystalMeth more than a few times but thos few times I did a shit ton it it, yet I never got addicted.
 
Lionel Mandrake said:
All crack is - is cocaine heated up with a little bit of backing soda and water in it. I've done coke and smoked crack several times when I was in my early 20's and I don't see how people can get addicted to it. It would make me stay up all night and party, but when I finally went to sleep and woke up the next day doing a line of coke or smoking a crack rock was the furthest thing from my mind.
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Do it every night for a few weeks and you'll see how people get hooked. I had to stop messing around with cocaine because when I would drink my face would start hurting for it. Not a road I wanted to go down.
 
ucunc156 said:
news is old and obvious. people in the reagan administration even admit to using crack to vilify the community.
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Can you support this with evidence?

The thing about crack was that the dealers were particularly violent and shot motherfuckers up.
 
nixkid said:
No but the government is supposed to be impartial.
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In 1993 President Bill Clinton made changes to the Community Reinvestment Act to make mortgages more obtainable for lower and lower-middle-class families. In 1993 the Federal Bank of Boston issued a report entitled “Closing the Gap: A Guide to Equal Opportunity Lending." The 30 page document was intended to serve as a guide to loan officers to help curb discriminatory lending [10] "Closing the Gap," instructs banks to hire based upon diversity needs, sweeten the compensation structure for working with lower income applicants, encourages shifting high risk, low income applications to the sub prime market, by saying "the secondary market [Subprime Market] is willing to consider ratios above the standard 28/36," and "Lack of credit history should not be seen as a negative factor."

While, "Closing the Gap" was not an industry-wide mandate, it illustrates the efforts banks took to meet public pressure to overcome mortgage discrimination. Under the Clinton administration community organizers pressured banks to increase their loans to minorities. Karen Wegmann, the head of Wells Fargo's community development group in 1993 told the New York Times, "The atmosphere now is one of saying yes." [11] The same New York Times article echoed "Closing the Gap," writing, "The banks have also modified some standards for credit approval. Many low-income people do not have credit-bureau files because they do not have credit cards. So lenders are accepting records of continuously paid utility bills as evidence of creditworthiness. Similarly, they will accept steady income from several employers instead of the length of time at one job."
 
Who are these mysterious people that only care about Caucasian drug addicts?

99.9% of people don't spend a moment thinking about addicts, let alone a specific type of addict. People have their own life to worry about.
 
Renard said:
Who are these mysterious people that only care about Caucasian drug addicts?

99.9% of people don't spend a moment thinking about addicts, let alone a specific type of addict. People have their own life to worry about.
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He's talking about stuff like this: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/health/new-hampshire-heroin-tactics/

You can literally walk into a police station with heroin and needles and they'll enroll you into a addiction treatment program. No arrest, no Judges. Nothing.

And there isn't much public outcry to lock these people up and throw away the key.
 
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/04/sym...ricas_startling_double_standard_on_addiction/

Yep: In Wisconsin, when rich white kids from the upper-class suburbs started ODing on "Dog Food" - their Police departments issued all of their officers auto-injectors of Naloxone to use on heron users found to be in severe respiratory depression.

Now, Walgreens is providing Narcan brand naloxone to people WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION.

The contrast of inaction/action between the 80's and now is incredible.
 
I don't think it's a stretch to say the U.S. figured it could arrest it's way of drug addiction when the problem was an inner city proble.

Now that is in suburban America, family's don't want t see their addicted child thrown in prison.
 
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