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8 pages based upon findings in five journal articles which maintain that the social programs and ideas such as "The War on Drugs" are overreaching political ploys to distract our attention from the real issues at-hand. It is argued based upon statistical data and scholarly example that the "drug problem" in the U.S. is not nearly as terrible as we are led to believe it is. Writer is considerably thorough in argument. Bibliography lists the 5 sources analyzed within the body of the paper.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Drugsoci.doc
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it causes corruption, crazed violence, and almost always leads to death. The government tells us that we are busy fighting a war on drugs and so it gives us
various iconic models to despise and detest : we learn to stereotype inner-city minorities as being of drug-infested wastelands and we learn to "witchhunt" drug users within our own communities
under the belief that they represent moral sin and pure evil. I believe that these titles and ideals are preposterous and based entirely upon unnecessary and even detrimental
ideals promoted by the government to achieve purposes other than those they claim... In Ronald J. Taylors article entitled "The Crack Attack : Politics and
Media in Americas Latest Drug Scare," the author attempts to expose and to deal with some of the societal problems that have related from the over-exaggeration of crack-cocaine as an
"epidemic problem" in our country. Without detracting attention away from the serious health risks for those few individuals who do use the drug, Taylor demonstrates how minimally detrimental the
current "epidemic" actually is. Early in the article, the author summarizes crack-cocaines evolutionary history in the U.S. Taylor specifically discusses how the crack-related deaths of
two star-athletes fist called wide-spread attention to the problem during the mid-1980s. Since then, the government has reportedly used crack-cocaine as a political scapegoat for many of the nations
larger inner-city problems. Thefts, violence, and even socioeconomic depression have been blamed on crack and according to what Reinarman and Levine imply-- this has been done wrongly so.
They assert that the government has invested considerably in studies whose results could be used to wage the perennial "war on drugs" while to politicians, that war has amounted
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