The crack epidemic

The crack epidemic in District of Columbia

Introduction

The crack epidemic refers to a period of six years between 1984 and 1990 in the United States, specifying in DC; it started in 1980; where there was a huge increase in both the consumption of crack in the big cities as in "crack houses" across state. The consequences of this epidemic included a large increase in addiction to this substance, the destitute, the murders, the robberies, the robbery, and long prison sentences. The first effects of the epidemic began in early 1980, but for the DEA (Drug Administration Enforcer) the officer of the epidemic period covers from 1984 to 1990, is arguably the peak of the epidemic.

The story of crack begins in the early 1970s. The cocaine is then perceived in the world of culture-cons like a drug almost sweet, something apart, the "drug of choice" elite "baby boomers. Numerous underground publications of the era denounce the absurd laws that criminalize a product perceived as harmless.

The violence generated by the crack epidemic ended as suddenly as he had begun. The reason for the decline in crime is not well understood. According to some reports, as another chapter in Levitt Freakonomics, increased police presence had nothing to do with the end of the epidemic as the cities in which this presence grew; they saw the consequences of the epidemic suddenly appeared. Young women and low income level who did not want their children were given the choice of abortion and thus slowed the emergence of a generation of children who had been born in unflattering conditions and an environment more prone to crime.

Open part of the 20th century, the District of Columbia is a set aside city. After World War II, white flight began. Affluent, mostly white, residents abandoned the outskirts of the city, leaving the poor and predominantly black city.The new city was destroyed in 1968, race riots consumed the traditional black DC's in these areas will not develop in the next few years the economic center. Rise, rather than any new business is ineffective local leadership, poverty, violence and a crack epidemic.

The end of the crack epidemic in 1990 coincided with the moment in which all those born after Roe v. Wade had hovered adulthood, when young people often begin their criminal career.

Discussion District of Columbia's crack epidemic

Cocaine, crack, and addictive toxicity caused by the physical and psychological consequences of users of psychoactive substances. Perhaps more important, unfortunately, however, cocaine, crack users, their families and communities, workplaces and social negative impacts. It is often exacerbated violence, domestic violence and abuse of cocaine or crack. Children are often victims of their parents or use of cocaine, and subjected to parental abuse or prenatal exposure.

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