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Cocaine and White Teens

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

White teens use cocaine at 4 times that of Black teens....and who is incarcerated? January 10, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist Cocaine and White Teens By CHARLES M. BLOW Last month, President Bush touted the results of a government-sponsored study by the University of Michigan called Monitoring the Future. It reported a broad decline in drug use among young people since 2001. This included a 24 percent drop in the overall use of illicit drugs. There was one exception he said: abuse of painkillers. But, one important metric that wasn?t mentioned, and that stubbornly resisted the downturn, was the use of cocaine. According to data from the group that produced the report, the percentage of both black and white 12th graders who confessed to using cocaine in the past 30 days has essentially stayed flat since 2001...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 10, 2009 (boomark / email).