How About a Friendly Frisking?: The Myth of the "Consensual" Police Encounter

How About a Friendly Frisking?: The Myth of the "Consensual" Police Encounter

Filed under: What Causes Cocaine Addiction

The officer conducted a search, and found crack cocaine in June's shirt pocket. In Florida, cocaine possession is a third-degree felony, and Escambia County judges aren't inclined toward leniency for 64-year-old African-American career criminals. June …
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When Meds Become Prescription for Prison

Filed under: What Causes Cocaine Addiction

Abuse of prescription painkillers is a public health epidemic. More people died from prescription painkiller overdoses in 2011 than from heroin, cocaine and all other drugs combined, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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The House I Live In

Filed under: What Causes Cocaine Addiction

Starting with the African-American housekeeper who helped raise him and ended up seeing her own offspring lured into a drugs and violence, Jarecki carefully and methodically builds his case that our dysfunctional drug laws have caused far more damage …
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