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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by refurb on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:33PM (#15242926)
If you were around back in the 1980's, you'd realize it was because crack was labelled an "epidemic" and ended up on the nightly news often. "Something had to be done"

That wasn't happening with powdered cocaine.

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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by azernik on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @06:13PM (#15243221)
That is the mechanism by which race-biased views of different drugs and crimes and other social problems operate.
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