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Jumping on the opportunity to create a scare and therefore views, major news channels manufactured information about an epidemic, effectively mass-marketing a newer, stronger, and far more dangerous form of an already potent drug. The result was an epidemic, with usage rapidly spreading across the United States.

By an estimated 4. Cocaine, which was an expensive commodity, was unavailable to this demographic, but crack, which was available in smaller and stronger quantities, was cheap and easy to get. Just a year later, that number would almost double again, rising to 94, Crack cocaine massively impacted urban communities, quickly hitting and decimating poverty-stricken areas. During the peak years of the crack cocaine epidemic, the drug was primarily distributed in inner-city neighborhoods, where dealers could easily sell quickly at a minimum price.

This resulted in heavy distribution to families and households already vulnerable to addiction through stress and poverty and in turn generated a more than doubled homicide rate among impoverished black males aged , and a significantly increased crime rate.

Often addicted, many users would turn to selling, further spreading crack into their communities and increasing violence and local poverty further. By , the U. Congress responded, passing a sentencing disparity versus powder cocaine, with a minimum sentence of 5 years in prison for possessing 5 grams of crack cocaine. By the mid s the crack epidemic eased off, but crack remained and is still sold today, often at a quarter or less of the price of cocaine. Crack cocaine causes numerous negative side-effects, all of which can dramatically harm the users mental and physical health.

The most common are overdose and harm to the lungs from smoking, resulting in crack lung, and over 25, emergency room visits each year. Crack Lung — Crack lung is the colloquial term for the respiratory difficulties caused by smoking crack. Users can have difficulty breathing, may develop pneumonia, may develop hemorrhaging, and may develop a pulmonary edema. Biden's infrastructure proposals. Republicans in both states said the closure highlighted the need for infrastructure spending, but not Mr.

I don't agree with the president's plan at all," Boozman said. In an inspection for the National Bridge Inventory report, the Federal Highway Administration said the I bridge checked out in fair condition overall, with all primary structure elements sound and only some minor cracks and chips in the overall structure. Its structural evaluation checked out "somewhat better than minimum adequacy to tolerate being left in place as is.

However, height and width clearances for oversize vehicles were "basically intolerable requiring high priority of corrective action," the inspectors found. Tennessee recommended "bridge deck replacement with only incidental widening. Arkansas transportation officials said the crack didn't appear in the last inspection of the bridge, which occurred in September Degges said the average is closer to 50, vehicles a day, with about a quarter being trucks.

Its traffic volume was expected to increase to 56, vehicles a day by , the report said. This is going to really create some potential problems for us," said Republican Representative Rick Crawford, whose district includes the east Arkansas end of the bridge. The IceBridge team observed the rift running across the ice shelf for about 18 miles 29 km , using an instrument called the Airborne Topographic Mapper, which uses a technology called lidar light detection and ranging that sends out a laser beam that bounces off a surface and back to the device.

The lidar instrument measured the rift's shoulders about feet meters apart at its widest, although the rift stretched about feet 79 meters wide along most of the crack.

The deepest points from the ice shelf surface ranged from to feet 50 to 60 meters. When the iceberg breaks free, it will cover about square miles square kilometers of surface area. Radar measurements suggested the ice shelf in the region of the rift is about 1, feet meters feet thick, with only about feet of the shelf floating above water and the rest submerged.

It is likely that once the iceberg floats away, the leading edge of the ice shelf will have receded farther than at any time since its location was first recorded in the s. This story was provided by OurAmazingPlanet. Gallery: An Expedition into Iceberg Alley. Krot told the man. Angela Simmons caught fans by surprise on Jan.

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