Statistics
This racial group is most frequently sentenced for the use of crack cocaine.
What are Black Americans?
This act created mandatory minimum sentencing.
What is the 1989 Anti-Drug Abuse Act?
This group is most notably affected by cocaine use and abuse.
What are Black Americans?
This method of ingestion creates an immediate high between 5 and 10 minutes after.
What is smoking?
Cocaine use could result in relying on the substance, otherwise known as this.
What is addiction?
This age group uses cocaine at the highest rates.
What are 18-25 year olds?
This act established a 100:1 ratio.
What is the 1989 Anti-Drug Abuse Act?
This group suffers from compounding effects of income inequality and drug use.
What is the poor?
This method of ingestion created a relatively slow onset of a high between 15 and 30 minutes after.
What is snorting?
Getting caught with cocaine may result in this.
What is arrest?
This racial group is least frequently sentenced for the use of cocaine.
What are white Americans?
This act reduced the ratio to 18:1.
What is the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act?
Class inequality and _____ _____ result in higher arrest rates for drug related crimes.
What is structural racism?
Cocaine use may affect this system.
What is the central nervous system?
These 2 substances react to produce coca ethylene.
What are alcohol and cocaine?
This racial group is most frequently sentenced for the use of powder cocaine.
What are Hispanic Americans?
This act created retroactive sentence reductions.
What is the 2018 First Step Act?
Black men are sent to prison __x more than white men.
What is 13?
These are effects of large amounts of cocaine.
What are bizarre, erratic, and violent behaviors?
Cocaine use may result in the following symptoms: disturbances in heart rhythm and heart attacks. These are classified as _____ _____.
What are cardiovascular effects?
Over 27,785,000 people fit into this category.
What are people who have tried cocaine at least once?
This act eliminated federal laws that treat crack and powder cocaine differently.
What is the Equal Act?
Over __% of drug offenders in state prisons are Black Americans.
What is 60%?
These are effects of small amounts of cocaine.
What are restlessness, irritability, anxiety, panic, paranoia, tremors, vertigo, and muscle twitches?
Cocaine use may result in the following symptoms: abdominal pain and nausea. These are classified as _____ _____.
What are gastrointestinal complications?