“Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.” WhiteCallingDrugFolksEpidemics Author:Richard Pryor
“Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.” YearsCountryStatesCitiesHappenedFiguresNew YorkDrugProgramRateSpreadBritishAidsWarriorOppositionNew York CityContrastUsersAddictIntroductionFundingHivNeedlesBansEpidemicsWar On DrugsInfectionDelayedAids Epidemic Author:Maia Szalavitz
“Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.” ForceHalfMillionsCrimeDrugAlcoholEpidemicsBluntInmates Author:Michael Botticelli
“We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have a problem with violence? Let's declare war on violence! The deeply ingrained American attitude that we can solve any problem w/enough force creates, feeds, & rewards the epidemic of violence we are currently experiencing.” WarEnoughProblemForceAttitudeViolenceCrimeDrugRewardsSolveEpidemicsWar On Drugs Author:Peter McWilliams
“How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.” PeopleDoeWhiteStyleNew YorkDrugTreatsAddictionCaliforniaArticlesGoing OutTypicalSectionsAddictEmergenciesNew York TimesSuburbsEpidemicsHeroinHousewifePhiladelphiaAdmissionDrug AddictPathologyOverdoseHeroin Addiction Author:Ishmael Reed
“This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.” WorstDrugLifetimeEpidemics Author:Mike DeWine
“It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .” CitiesDrugTownsSmall TownCountySuburbsEpidemicsOhio Author:Mike DeWine
“We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south.” ProblemAmericaDrugSouthMassiveEpidemicsHeroinCartelsOpioids Author:Paul Ryan