Sentences with phrase «cocaine epidemic»

In 2007, Tam curated «Jamaica, Queens Thing,» about the intersection between hip - hop and the crack cocaine epidemic.

Because of the crack cocaine epidemic?

This helped fuel the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s.

I mean, these are the events that have led to the conspiracy theory — which isn't quite so farfetched and is supported by some good evidence, some of which we bear witness to here — that the CIA was actively involved in importing cocaine into the United States in the 1980s, and that the agency's activities were in large part responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic.

«The Deuce» follows the story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York's Times Square from the early»70s through the mid»80s, exploring the rough - and - tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area.

I love the fact that we are presented with three wildly different perspectives of the same issue (the burgeoning cocaine epidemic).

The good news is that Snowfall, the searing FX drama about the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, does start moving at dazzling speed after a slow, plodding start.

When the crack cocaine epidemic impacted communities of color in the 1980s and 1990s, people like Marty Golden called for law and order instead of compassion.»

But most of them took one look at the country's most notorious neighbourhood — gorgeous but crumbling buildings, a crack - cocaine epidemic on top of a heroin problem, mentally ill people living on the streets — and shook their heads.

Not exact matches

During the 1990s» crack cocaine and AIDS epidemic, there was a sharp increase of lower - income grandparents who became the primary caregivers of their grandchildren.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams compares today's opioid epidemic with the crack cocaine scourge of the 1980s.

Inside his large, bustling laboratory in Berkeley's famous Stanley Hall, Duesberg plotted out graphs of the 1960s and»70s epidemic of drug abuse, including busts for heroin, cocaine, and other drugs.

Schrock: Well, other researchers — I think there is a group at the University of Minnesota — are looking into the possibility of treating cocaine addiction with other kinds of rewards, so that's definitely an area they are going to look into and they also think it has implications for obesity because if sugar is this addicting and if we can treat it like an addiction, we may be able to curb this obesity epidemic.

Straight Outta Compton Film Review by Kam Williams Gritty Raptrospective Chronicles Rise and Demise of Legendary Gangsta» Group Back in the Eighties, the CIA began orchestrating the introduction of crack - cocaine to African - American communities all across America, starting with the South Central L.A.. By the middle of the decade, the epidemic had turned Compton into a godforsaken wasteland rife with drug addiction and crime.