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Author | : Jeffrey Shulman |
Publisher | : Twenty First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780941477987 |
Discusses how cocaine and crack affect the mind and body and presents a brief history of cocaine use.
Author | : Jeffrey Shulman |
Publisher | : Children's Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780516073521 |
Author | : Troll Books |
Publisher | : Troll Communications |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1991-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780816724468 |
Discusses how cocaine and crack affect the mind and body and presents a brief history of cocaine use.
Author | : Claire Sterk |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1999-02-17 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1566396727 |
Providing insight into drug use from the point of view of female users, this book tells of the complex lives, challenges, and choices of women who use crack cocaine. While popular images of these women present them simply as unreliable individuals, unfit mothers, and women who will do almost anything for crack, Claire Sterk's years of ethnographic research reveal the nature and meaning of crack cocaine use in the larger context of their lives -- including the impact of such issues as gender, class, and race. Focusing on active crack users, Fast Lives compiles information from participant observation, informal conversations, individual interviews, and group discussions. Sterk details the ways in which use affects the lives of these crack users. She captures how these women arrived at their use; how they survive under current circumstances, such as the constant threat of HIV/AIDS and violence; how they combine the multiple social roles of mother and drug user; and how -- as they share their aspirations and expectations for the future -- their stories underscore the effects of poverty, sexism, and racism on their lives. Many of these women recognize their own responsibility for ensuring positive change. Sterk's book, which includes an argument for a harm reduction approach, reminds us that their strength and courage will too often be futile without social policies that are realistic and appropriate for women. Fast Lives will engage readers interested in social problems as well as students of cultural anthropology, sociology, criminology, public health, ethnography, substance abuse, and women's health.
Author | : David Farber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2019-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108425275 |
The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.
Author | : Marylou Ambrose |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0766058786 |
This book takes a look at the serious and potentially deadly consequences associated with crack and cocaine abuse. Personal stories and the latest statistics bring the dangers of this extremely habit-forming drug into focus.
Author | : Tom Mount |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-05 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1468573977 |
What's it like to be married to a drug addict? What should you do if you think your spouse is addicted to crack cocaine? What is crack cocaine? Having been raised during the 50s and 60s, the author had little exposure to drugs except alcohol. Then, through the eyes of his younger wife ..., he got the education he never had previously. ... His world was falling apart from a substance he knew nothing about.--Page [4] of cover.
Author | : Sue Mahan |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1996-08-23 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780761901419 |
Sue Mahan provides an up-to-date, accessible discussion of the issues relevant to the debate on crack cocaine, crime and women. Following an in-depth overview, the book offers a broad and informed perspective on the legal, lifestyle and treatment issues central to women's addiction to crack cocaine. With sensitivity and compassion, the author also addresses the tragic consequences of children born to addicted mothers, stressing the importance for policy and resources to focus on the mutual well-being of mother and child.
Author | : Dimitri A. Bogazianos |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0814787010 |
In 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law repealing one of the most controversial policies in American criminal justice history: the one hundred to one sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder whereby someone convicted of “simply” possessing five grams of crack—the equivalent of a few sugar packets—had been required by law to serve no less than five years in prison. In this highly original work, Dimitri A. Bogazianos draws on various sources to examine the profound symbolic consequences of America’s reliance on this punishment structure, tracing the rich cultural linkages between America’s War on Drugs, and the creative contributions of those directly affected by its destructive effects. Focusing primarily on lyrics that emerged in 1990s New York rap, which critiqued the music industry for being corrupt, unjust, and criminal, Bogazianos shows how many rappers began drawing parallels between the “rap game” and the “crack game." He argues that the symbolism of crack in rap’s stance towards its own commercialization represents a moral debate that is far bigger than hip hop culture, highlighting the degree to which crack cocaine—although a drug long in decline—has come to represent the entire paradoxical predicament of punishment in the U.S. today.
Author | : Ann E. Holmes |
Publisher | : Chelsea House |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
Examines the problems associated with the use of crack and other forms of cocaine, focusing on the mental and psychological disorders that can occur.