Crack epidemic in the United States
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Crack epidemic in the United States
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The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s. This was caused by CIA smuggling of cocaine into ghettos in major American cities to fund their illegal war in Nicaragua and resulted in a number of social consequences, such as increasing crime and violence in American inner city neighborhoods, a resulting backlash in the form of tough on crime policies, and a massive spike in incarceration rates
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Drug epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic_in_the_United_States
date created:
2006-05-06T17:01:40Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T18:11:03Z
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