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6 pages in length. The writer briefly examines the aspects of five articles pertaining to social work and cultural issues in certain populations. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of slavery. With legalization of cocaine and heroin at the turn of the twentieth century, the temptation was made much easier to indulge; by the 1950s, there was a
preponderance of black junkies. According to David Grant, publicist for the Institute on Black Substance Abuse in Minneapolis: "Black neighborhoods as places to go to get high [were] established
early in the century. Many whites still come to black neighborhoods to buy drugs...Blacks were relegated to the lower rungs of the drug trade, and it exposed them of
greater risks - both from homicide and incarceration" (Green, no date). With black youth representing a higher population of substance abusers than other ethnic populations other than Caucasian, research
findings indicate that drug and alcohol abuse is predisposed to ethnicity (Calhoun, 1996). Drug abuse may be considered a victimless crime only in
some circumstances; in others, however, the vicious cycle where social determinism plagues virtually every aspect of life is no more evident than with the drugs, poverty and race. Policing
such an overwhelming cause as rampant drug use has brought to light an interwoven component of ethnic inclusion to the point of rendering a social stigma to such a stereotype.
The primary reason these seemingly unrelated entities are inextricably entangled with one another is because of the vicious cycle of poverty and crime, with particular emphasis upon the economic
and political struggles of inner-city existence in the United States. According to Gross (1997), "racial discrimination exists in the criminal justice system, associated with the politics of the war
on crime and the war on drugs, as well as racist attitudes of police officers" (pp. 405-415). Inner-city life is no picnic for
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