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J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (4): 909–913.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Joanna K. Weinberg Meredith Minkler and Kathleen Roe. Grandmothers as Caregivers: Raising Children of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic . Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1993. 240 pp. $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (2): 211–239.
Published: 01 April 2020
... cocaine epidemic. Some authors claimed that the political response to the crack cocaine epidemic was criminal justice rather than medical in nature, motivated by divergent racial demographics. Methods: We examine these assertions by analyzing the language used in relevant newspaper articles. Using...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (2): 171–175.
Published: 01 April 2020
... policies in response to opioids in contrast to more punitive criminal justice policies pursued for other drug epidemics? To start this special issue, Jin Woo Kim, Evan Morgan, and Brendan Nyhan compare the opioid era with the crack cocaine era to test whether the policy response to opioids has been less...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (2): 365–372.
Published: 01 April 2020
... understand how a problem even comes to be seen as such. In their essay comparing media representations of the crack cocaine and opioid epidemics, Carmel Shachar, Tess Wise, Gail Katznelson, and Andrea Louise Campbell point out that “the model used to frame a substance abuse epidemic is crucial because...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (3): 701–704.
Published: 01 June 1994
... Perspectives on Aging (1991) and Readings in the Political Economy of Aging
(1984), and a coauthored book, Grandmothers as Caregivers: Raising Children of the
Crack Cocaine Epidemic (Sage, 1993).
Jonathan Oberlander received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. He...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (4): 949–954.
Published: 01 August 1994
... to the Clinton Proposal: A Comparative Perspective, I:
249-254
Weinberg, Joanna K. Review of Grandmothers as Caregivers:Raising Children ofthe
Crack Cocaine Epidemic (Meredith Minkler and Kathleen Roe), 4: 909-914
Weissert, Carol S, Jack H. Knott, and Blair E. Stieber. Education...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (2): 357–385.
Published: 01 April 1990
... currently accounts for more requests for drug abuse treatment than any other
drug, including heroin.
Among lower socioeconomic groups the cocaine problem has taken the form of
a crack cocaine epidemic. Crack is a form of cocaine that can be easily smoked
by “freebasing.” Because crack is smoked...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (2): 177–209.
Published: 01 April 2020
... indicates the number of opioid-related deaths in 2016 alone (41,518) exceeds the number of cocaine-related deaths in the 1980s and 1990s combined (38,371). The scale of the opioid crisis thus outstrips any prior US drug epidemic. In addition, though the use of crack cocaine was associated with negative...
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Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (3): 473–498.
Published: 01 June 2000
... Administration (OSHA). In 1991
the Supreme Court offered a final ruling in the Johnson Controls case
(Daniels 1993; Samuels 1995).
The claim of public interest fetal protection expanded in a different
direction with the emergence of a crack cocaine epidemic...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (4): 993–1020.
Published: 01 August 1997
... cocaine. The sentences were
set by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, introduced and passed amid
widespread fear of a crack epidemic. That year, more than one thou-
sand crack stories appeared in the press; over four hundred crack
reports aired on NBC alone; crack got five cover stories each in Time...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (3): 668–669.
Published: 01 June 1994
... cuts across
class and ethnic group lines but is particularly prevalent in inner-city
communities that have been hard hit by the epidemics of crack cocaine,
violence, and AIDS. Discussion of this trend and its health and eco-
nomic consequences for women, particularly in low-income...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (3): 665–668.
Published: 01 June 1994
... of grandparents raising grandchildren cuts across
class and ethnic group lines but is particularly prevalent in inner-city
communities that have been hard hit by the epidemics of crack cocaine,
violence, and AIDS. Discussion of this trend and its health and eco-
nomic consequences for women...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (1): 139–142.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., the diagnosis of FAS went through a growth
spurt spurred on by the media’s coverage of substance abuse during preg-
nancy and concern about an apparent epidemic of drug damaged babies.
During this time, television news programs aired stories on the public
panic over crack cocaine use by African Americans...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (1): 142–146.
Published: 01 February 2007
... programs aired stories on the public
panic over crack cocaine use by African Americans in urban areas and
the rash of “crack babies” who were being born addicted to drugs and
were subsequently abandoned by their mothers. These children were pre-
sented as a burden to society, and Golden argues...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (4): 719–740.
Published: 01 August 1989
...Jeff Stryker Users of intravenous heroin, cocaine, and amphetamines risk the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through the sharing of contaminated injection equipment. Although most users are aware of this risk, the scarcity of sterile needles and syringes, combined with various...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (1): 131–138.
Published: 01 February 2007
... programs aired stories on the public
panic over crack cocaine use by African Americans in urban areas and
the rash of “crack babies” who were being born addicted to drugs and
were subsequently abandoned by their mothers. These children were pre-
sented as a burden to society, and Golden argues...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (2): 473–478.
Published: 01 April 1994
...
Cocaine and Crack: Supply and Use. Edited by Philip Bean. New York: St. Martin’s,
1993. 176 pp. $59.95 cloth.
The Continuing Challenge of Tuberculosis. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology As-
sessment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1993. 160 pp. $9.50
paper.
Deadly Choices...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (5): 873–916.
Published: 01 October 2016
... mandatory federal sentencing for crack cocaine possession (Morone 1997 ). During the 1980s and 1990s, public outrage over pejoratively termed “crack babies” was directed toward low-income black women (Cadet 2012 ; Campbell 2000 ; Hartman and Golub 1999 ; Meyers 2004 ). Negative representations...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (5): 965–978.
Published: 01 October 2005
....
If there are any lingering doubts over the ferocity of the debate concern-
ing world food production, global public health, and the obesity epidemic,
one need only consider the titles of the books in this review: Food Wars,
Food Fight, and Bad Foods. The books’ subtitles are equally evocative
of the ongoing...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (5): 978–985.
Published: 01 October 2005
....
If there are any lingering doubts over the ferocity of the debate concern-
ing world food production, global public health, and the obesity epidemic,
one need only consider the titles of the books in this review: Food Wars,
Food Fight, and Bad Foods. The books’ subtitles are equally evocative
of the ongoing...
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