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That law eased a much-criticized disparity in the old rules—created in the 1980s in response to rising violence and drug-addiction rates in urban areas—whereby crack-cocaine crimes were punished far more harshly than those relating to powder cocaine.
New Terms in Crack Debate Gary Fields 2011
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Budding writer Edmund (Dean Stockwell) is recovering from TB, and mother Mary (Katharine Hepburn), recently released from an institution, is slowly losing her grip on reality to the ravages of drug-addiction.
John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011
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Budding writer Edmund (Dean Stockwell) is recovering from TB, and mother Mary (Katharine Hepburn), recently released from an institution, is slowly losing her grip on reality to the ravages of drug-addiction.
John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011
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That law eased a much-criticized disparity in the old rules—created in the 1980s in response to rising violence and drug-addiction rates in urban areas—whereby crack-cocaine crimes were punished far more harshly than those relating to powder cocaine.
New Terms in Crack Debate Gary Fields 2011
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Budding writer Edmund (Dean Stockwell) is recovering from TB, and mother Mary (Katharine Hepburn), recently released from an institution, is slowly losing her grip on reality to the ravages of drug-addiction.
John Farr: Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors John Farr 2011
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For the longest time, house dance culture has carried a drug-addiction stigma.
Tijana Milosevic: Self-Expression Through House Dance Culture Tijana Milosevic 2011
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Christian communities already provide perhaps the nation's largest network of drug-addiction programs rooted in compassion and love.
James Clark: Why Marijuana Decriminalization Should Be a Christian Issue 2010
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It begins like drug-addiction; the prospective recruit to Satanism “gets into something” on a playful impulse, but then finds himself or herself gripped by compulsions which he or she can no longer control.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008
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The pain reliever methadone, left, is given out for free as part of drug-addiction treatment programs.
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But both of Cindy McCain's staged, teary drug-addiction confessions have been vintage John McCain.
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