Substance Abuse Increasing In Inner-City Minorities

Part I of Essay
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 in ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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. To get a five year sentence for trafficking powder cocaine a person would have to be caught with 500 grams 9. African-Americans ac ....