| 单词 | drug |
| 例句 | The actual operation of drug forfeiture laws seriously undermines the usual rhetoric offered in support of the War on Drugs, namely that it is the big “kingpins” that are the target of the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Once he felt better, he stopped taking his cholesterol and hypertension drugs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Stores, nightclubs, cafes, and schools had closed, and drug dealers, gangs, and violence were on the rise. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love’s as good as soma. ” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z For years,“help” had meant sending him to drug counseling and anger therapy sessions. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Eventually the schools reopened, farm shops sold food, distribution networks sprang up and the black market offered everything from imported drugs to new shoes if you could afford to pay. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She was depressed all the time, and taking drugs seemed to be the only thing she truly enjoyed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z After a while I realized he had been given a drug. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Quick recap of what I knew about drugs: my mom told me never to do them; my dad told me not to do them until after the SATs. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z After our reunion at Uncle Sammie’s, my grandfather was sent to jail for selling drugs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Though the fuss about Bunny had mostly blown over, the college had still not returned quite to normal—and not at all in the new “Dragnet” spirit of drug enforcement which had spread across campus. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Because of Chapel Hill High School’s strict Zero Tolerance Policy toward drugs, the school nurse had to dispense all medications for Chapel Hill High School students. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I want to think tie is involved in some type of illegal drug operation that is about to be exposed, bringing national attention to Paintbrush Falls. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z I was feverish, bothered by the sores that the drugs had brought out on my arms and chest, and I could not remember how I had meant to weave the story. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In short, most researchers don’t put texting, or video game playing or Internet use in the same category as addictive drugs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “What do you see in him? Don’t you see he uses drugs?” people ask her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “There was that attempted holdup three years ago—the time that drug addict came in like a wild man.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The pillow smells of his lime pomade and she breathes it in, sobbing . . . . . . until, drugged by weeping’s opiates, she falls asleep. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was followed by Reagan’s National Security Decision Directive, which declared drugs a threat to U.S. national security, and provided for yet more cooperation between local, state, and federal law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It’s likely Holmes also wanted Pitezel to gather whatever intelligence he could about the cure and its labeling, so that he could mimic the product and sell it through his own mail-order drug company. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “All those drugs in the sixties,” she says accusingly. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Virtually all constitutionally protected civil liberties have been undermined by the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z With such an extraordinarily large population to choose from, decisions must be made regarding who should be targeted and where the drug war should be waged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter to her that our uncle had gone to the army hospital to get himself cleaned up and off drugs. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “The Aztlan police have wondered for a long time how drugs were being distributed in this country. They were extremely interested in what they found at the saltworks.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Starting in the mid-1930s, drug smuggling had become a big part of her workload. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But deep inside, I knew I was hooked, and I was secretly jealous of those from my drug circle who got themselves together and pulled out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z How fascinating, they will likely say, that a drug war was waged almost exclusively against poor people of color—people already trapped in ghettos that lacked jobs and decent schools. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One night, as he sits down to dinner, Lourdes tells her son that if she had sent more money, he would have blown it on drugs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There was not an organ of his body that had not been drugged and derogated, dusted and dredged, fingered and photographed, removed, plundered and replaced. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Or the organic phosphates may interact with various drugs, or with synthetic materials, food additives — who can say what else of the infinite number of man-made substances that now pervade our world? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z More than 70 percent of all criminal cases in the Chicago area involve a class D felony drug possession charge, the lowest-level felony charge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He went and chatted up some lady loitering amongst the drugs, clipboard in hand. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She had told him that she knew a magic drug to cure any ailment. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat on her bed once back then, stared into red eyes hazy from drugs, and asked her that same question. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Although African Americans do not engage in drug crime at significantly higher rates than whites, black men do have much higher rates of violent crime, and violent crime is concentrated in ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The guy who stabbed Monkeyman had been arrested before for possession of drugs and was on parole. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Today, they’d be thrown in a Social Disgrace Unit with drug addicts and maricones. Look at me. They say I’m rebellious, but it was rebels who made the revolution!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z While I encountered some cynics and plenty of people who had learned to budget their energy, I never met an actual slacker or, for that matter, a drug addict or thief. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He sold the bed she bought him for drug money. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Once after she had started saving, the drug store had a special. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z How awful, I thought, for drug dealers to try to get poor people hooked on drugs. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Mandatory drug sentencing laws strip judges of their traditional role of considering all relevant circumstances in an effort to do justice in the individual case. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Our fight had nothing to do with drugs,” Owen says. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Those companies that did make MDR drugs could pretty much name their own price. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A little time jump, a little static on the screen, probably jet lag: up too late at night, drugged in the morning. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Whites should demonstrate that their silence in the drug war cannot be bought by tacit assurances that their sons and daughters will not be rounded up en masse and locked away. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If there are significant differences in the surveys to be found, they frequently suggest that whites, particularly white youth, are more likely to engage in illegal drug dealing than people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One of them persuaded him to take some drugs back home to St. Louis. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This flexibility—which is important in all criminal cases—is especially important in drug cases, as studies have indicated that many drug defendants are using or selling to support an addiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She never says it directly, but I’m pretty sure her dad is a drug dealer. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z According to the most up-to-date rumors, the drug he ordered from the restaurant was crack and he was caught dipping into the cash register to pay for it. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “A majority of those years have been spent serving in Garden Heights,” the voice-over continues, “a neighborhood notorious for gangs and drug dealers.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Later on, lithium would revolutionize the treatment of bipolar disorder, but the drug would not be licensed in the United States until 1970. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Where can we get ourselves some good drugs in this place?” one of the boys asked. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Bonding over illegal drugs hadn’t magically solved our problems. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Or the hands of a school security guard patting me down for drugs I didn’t have. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z "He owned some drug stores, a lot of drug stores. He built them up himself." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Once in the Oval Office, Bush stayed on message, opposing affirmative action and aggressive civil rights enforcement, and embracing the drug war with great enthusiasm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Now that police departments were suddenly flush with cash and military equipment earmarked for the drug war, they needed to make use of their new resources. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The 1999 drug bust incarcerated almost 15 percent of the black population of the town, based on the uncorroborated false testimony of a single informant hired by the sheriff of Tulia. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Drug forfeiture laws are frequently used to allow those with assets to buy their freedom, while drug users and small-time dealers with few assets to trade are subjected to lengthy prison terms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Roberta calls to tell me, in fulsome tones, that my “drug screen is fine” and that I’m due in tomorrow at three for orientation. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That meant, of course, that I hadn’t been drugged. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I hold one of her twitching hands, unclear whether it moves from the poison that affected our nerves, the shock of the attack, or withdrawal from the drug that was her sustenance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Inaccurate data from countries with high incidences of MDR have made it difficult for pharmaceutical companies to meet demand for these drugs consistently, and therefore market prices have fluctuated. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “That officers here sell drugs,” someone finally ventured. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a veteran of the drug game at eighteen. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Stuff I learned in grade school, when the D.A.R.E. cops used to come around and teach us about the so-called war on drugs. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Yet as we have seen in chapter 2, the drug war has not been aimed at rooting out the most violent drug traffickers, or so-called kingpins. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. I think the drugs caused them; they kept giving me injections....” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, he’s happy. They went and gave him some serious drugs, probably.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z In return, the dealers would promise not to sell drugs to the citizens of the United States and Mexico. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Far from resisting the emergence of the new caste system, Clinton escalated the drug war beyond what conservatives had imagined possible a decade earlier. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Concentrating law enforcement efforts in locations where drug activity will be more easily detected is viewed as a race-neutral organizational necessity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When his high school friends started experimenting with hard drugs, so did Mike, and he soon developed a heroin addiction. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z First, let’s consider the absence of overt racial hostility among politicians who support harsh drug laws and the law enforcement officials charged with enforcing them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He meets the local villagers and discovers that an evil man with a machine gun has enslaved them, forcing them to grow poppy flowers that he turns into drugs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Studies of racial profiling have shown that police do, in fact, exercise their discretion regarding whom to stop and search in the drug war in a highly discriminatory manner. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Yet I’m shaking as if I really am a drug dealer. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Every single one gets a little slap on the wrist and goes right back into society, like it’s all good. Black folks or poor folks get on drugs?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Instead, I spent the day taking drugs and playing with radiation. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, it is fair to wonder why the police would choose to arrest such an astonishing percentage of the American public for minor drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and people convicted of drug offenses speaks volumes regarding who is viewed as disposable—someone to be purged from the body politic—and who is not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even for high-end drug crimes, most countries impose sentences that are measured in months, rather than years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A few feet farther on, soldiers stop each vehicle to search for drugs and guns. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z One did not know what happened inside the Ministry of Love, but it was possible to guess: tortures, drugs, delicate instruments that registered your nervous reactions, gradual wearing-down by sleeplessness and solitude and persistent questioning. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I shake the thought from my mind, because thinking of my mother forces me to think of my cousins and their drugs, which makes me think of Detective Stevens, and Dray, and Kasim. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Vast numbers of people are swept into the criminal justice system by the police, who conduct drug operations primarily in poor communities of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse reported in 2000 that white youth aged 12–17 are more than a third more likely to have sold illegal drugs than African American youth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “We tried everything. Drink, drugs, prayer, even small doses of poison. On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Some idiot coughs to cover the “drug dealer” he says as I pass. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He knew about the affair with Karen Kelly and had heard the suspicion and rumors that Walter's independence must mean he was dealing drugs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The same drug that had been considered fearsome twenty years earlier, when associated with African Americans and Latinos, was refashioned as a relatively harmless drug when associated with whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’d always been a pathetic drunk, which was why I totally preferred drugs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Today there is less drug trafficking, but smugglers' runways can still be seen, cut into remote patches of forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Although the majority of illegal drug users and dealers nationwide are white, three-fourths of all people imprisoned for drug offenses have been black or Latino. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Indeed, women who are involved in some relationship with men accused of drug crimes, typically husbands or boyfriends, are among the most frequent claimants in forfeiture proceedings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My eyes glaze over when she gives me the drug talk and she gives me one of her looks. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z And what if I had had drugs in my car? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But then she always took care of herself—no liquor, no drugs, and recently she had stopped drinking coffee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Artemis waited calmly for the drug to take hold of his system. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war without much regard for their guilt or innocence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The lady Kirke mixed me a golden cup of honeyed wine, adding in mischief her unholy drug. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on a bed, telling us to make up our minds about the dangers of drugs, was Sonny Bono. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He reached a corner and went into a drug store. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Especially my mother, who, after Aurelia got out of drug rehab, begged her to come to a dance class with her so she could stay busy and keep her mind off getting lost again. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In 2006, Alabama passed a law that made it a felony to expose a child to a “dangerous environment” in which the child could encounter drugs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A famous gang, famous for drugs and liquor. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Evidently, this medicine was going to drip into him for twenty-four hours, and then they would give him other drugs to minimize the poisoning he would get from this drug. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Like I either imagined it, which is quite possible, or I’m overreacting, which will buy me a trip back to the drug- induced dreamland I’m trying so hard to escape. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Its lifeblood is trafficking in arms, drugs, and people. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And then there were the usual ones—drug addicts who robbed banks to keep up their habits and were finally caught in the act. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Looks like,” she says, and tells me that she hasn’t even taken her drug test. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If some other drug relieves the symptoms of schizophrenia, then an excess of it must cause schizophrenia. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn't into no drugs or nothing like that. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z He ran on a platform of improving the school system, fighting illiteracy, and trying to find innovative solutions to the metastasizing drug trade that was poisoning life in major areas of the city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Face-to-face with those whose lives hang in the balance, they are far closer to the human tragedy occasioned by the drug war than the legislators who write the laws from afar. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Drug raids of state correctional facilities were a bizarre consequence of this surreal drug dealing to carry out executions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was happy, relaxed, self-assured, pleased as punch, like someone who had been terminally ill and, when all seemed lost, had been cured by some wonder drug and was now ready to conquer the world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am not a drug dealer,” Owen answers. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Any notion that drug use among blacks is more severe or dangerous is belied by the data; white youth have about three times the number of drug-related emergency room visits as their African American counterparts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That way, he might discover a drug that would fight Ebola virus or possibly cure it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Of particular interest were details that could be used to humiliate and discredit Ellsberg—tales of recreational drug use, and rumors that Daniel and Patricia enjoyed visiting nudist camps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I hadn’t slept much the night before, and Ruthanne’s lunch combined with the heavy afternoon air hit me like a sleeping drug. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Even Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has condemned the harsh mandatory minimum sentences imposed on people convicted of drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hunt went to a CIA doctor for the drugs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The child cried steadily as though in drugged misery. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The drugs were usually cooked and cut in a house, and the housemen would have to make sure the sellers had their supply for the day. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Besides watching Tony, Wes’s first real interaction with drugs had taken place a few months earlier, just before the move out to Baltimore County. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z This “volume” approach to drug enforcement sweeps up extraordinary numbers of innocent people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Rees, later held that the execution protocols and drug combinations weren't inherently unconstitutional. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “For most of my friends, fife is liquor, drugs, and bad jobs with no hope of escape,” Jesse had told me. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, he ate ravenously and slept as though drugged. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A number of these kids have the slightly dull, vacant look of people on drugs, and I wonder what they’re taking to keep them here and breathing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Roseland had taken one hit after another, from the exodus of white families and the bottoming out of the steel industry to the deterioration of its schools and the flourishing of the drug trade. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was the conflation of blackness and crime in the media and political discourse that made the drug war and the sudden, massive expansion of our prison system possible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The geese hung around the barnyard the way boys hang around a drug store, and Mr. Zuckerman fed them com and turnips to keep them cheerful. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “He wanted to make sure that you and I hadn’t said anything about drugs when we talked to the police this morning.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The information includes details about the exact hfpe of cow or pig, what kind of feed it was given, what drugs, if amj, when it was slaughtered, and more. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The dark web is where hackers congregate, drugs are trafficked, sex is sold, and assassins are hired. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Crackheads getting high right in front of me, and drug dealers making more money in one day than a stockbroker makes in one week. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “No officers, to my knowledge, are selling drugs,” he said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham’s older brother had forged checks and wounded their father’s wholesale drug business. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Law enforcement officials assumed the role of drug “experts,” emphasizing the need for law and order responses—a crackdown on those associated with the drug. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But with drug crime, neither the purchaser of the drugs nor the seller has any incentive to contact law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Sabatini: Quite a few times with drugs and guns and stealing and lying and cutting school. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to the drug store and looked inside at the man leaning against a wall, smoking. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “A drug deal turned into a robbery, and he got shot in the head twice. Right in front of me. A few months before you were born, in fact. That’s why I named you Starr.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He looks like a drug addict, but I know that’s not it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Just the other day we went to a drug rehab center for teenagers,” Junior said. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z As I sat next to her, trying to spin a basketball on my index finger, I heard my grandparents talk about how drugs and violence had slowly crept in. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She told me if I took a drug now, even if I didn’t have children for a decade, they would be deformed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z First, states need to repeal mandatory sentencing laws for drug offenses. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know what drug he was in the habit of taking?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z At the news-stand she bought a copy of "Town Tattle" and a moving-picture magazine and, in the station drug store, some cold cream and a small flask of perfume. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Okay, now you’re speaking my language. What do you want? Money? Don’t say drugs because I don’t have any.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I look over my shoulder, and through the haze of drugs I see him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They’d ransacked the place, purposely leaving it a mess to make it look as if some junkie had broken in looking for drugs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In bits and pieces he explained the plan: one night, he would drug the warders on duty at the lighthouse to allow for the landing of a boat on the beach. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Master Williams went on to ask J.T. and Digger a bunch of questions: how old they were, how much school they’d had, were they under the influence of drugs, alcohol, or medication? Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z It was as if the drug had caused Nestor’s power to outpace his body. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He sells our food so that he could get more drugs, leaving us hungry. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Their point is particularly relevant to the predicament of minority police officers charged with waging the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “They want something called...I don’t remember the name. We call it something different in Haiti. But it’s drugs.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Myers claimed to have committed the Vickie Pittman murder under the direction of another local sheriff; he laid out to us a widespread conspiracy involving police, drug dealing, and money laundering. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Maybe he had drug education at school. Plus the twins snooped in my room and told him I had a dresser full of pills, so he wanted to make sure I’m not an addict.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It takes thirty minutes for the drug to work. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The medical personnel were trained to handle drug overdoses and minor injuries, and knew very little about cerebral palsy. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z In 2005, for example, four out of five drug arrests were for possession, and only one out of five was for sales. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I don’t know why she chose drugs over me and Trey. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I’m telling you, there aren’t any drugs. I used the weed up this morning. That’s why I needed more from Josh.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The KGB men had drugged and interrogated him. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She shouldn’t trust anyone who steals money from their family, begs friends for change, and digs through her couch just to support her drug habit. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Yo, you trying to diss my man Dray? What makes you think he’s a drug dealer?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z These realities suggest—if the past two decades of endless war somehow did not—that the drug war is doomed to fail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A doctor in Boston had invented a new drug to treat leukemia. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “G-Wiz. He’s this weird blue alien thing for the Washington Wizards. He looks like Cookie Monster on drugs.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z If she hadn’t been drugged or dreaming or in a coma, she would have cried. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In the past, the criminal justice system, as punitive as it may have been during various wars on crime and drugs, affected only a relatively small percentage of the population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The impact of the drug war has been astounding. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I like to believe that even though I was drugged and nearly murdered at school yesterday, I am able to put that behind me today. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “You said it yourself, he thought Khalil was a drug dealer,” Daddy says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t have talked back to her or taken drugs or drunk beer from paper bags like the other teenagers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "We got all this stuff to carry around with us," Ty'ree said "You know how they say drug addicts got a monkey on their back?" Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z It started to become clear to Wes: the drug game was raw capitalism on overdrive with bullets, a pyramid scheme whose base was dead bodies and ruined lives. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “A drug deal went bad and Stef’s mom was hit in the cross fire.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, I knew the aftereffects of the drug would leave her exhausted and weak. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The last job I'd had in New York was pushing a shopping cart full of drugs down the streets to people's apartments. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Selling me the drugs was no problem, but listening to my increasingly manic thoughts and opinions was far too much for one person to take on a daily basis. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z That day I thought that they had not only drugged but mindchanged him, leaving him insane or imbecile. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A few years after the drug war was declared, crack began to spread rapidly in the poor black neighborhoods of Los Angeles and later emerged in cities across the country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In fact, there were more black men in the state’s correctional facilities that year just on drug charges than the total number of black men enrolled in undergraduate degree programs in state universities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When the news spread that the drugs were being used in executions in the United States, European producers stopped making them available. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Object might have been drugged or comatose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Bhalla prescribed a half-dozen drugs to lower Wilson’s cholesterol, prevent clotting, and control his blood pressure. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z That my uncle wasn’t sick from war, but sick from drugs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Throughout the black community, there is widespread awareness that black ghetto youth have few, if any, realistic options, and therefore dealing drugs can be an irresistible temptation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “What about mental conditions: feeble-mindedness, insanity, psychopathic personality, epilepsy, narcotic drug addiction, chronic alcoholism?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “People take drugs because they want to. You just have to not want to.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z On Christmas Day, totally hungover from too many drugs and too much sun, Kelley and Stringer shipped out on the same plane. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In some jurisdictions, they are billed for drug testing and even for the drug treatment they are supposed to receive as a condition of parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At the time of his arrest, Marcus was twenty-four years old and had been addicted to drugs for six years, beginning shortly after his mother’s death and escalating throughout his early twenties. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The CIA also admitted that, in the midst of the War on Drugs, it blocked law enforcement efforts to investigate illegal drug networks that were helping to fund its covert war in Nicaragua. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The guards were looking for drugs, weapons, any contraband. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z If the dog alerts to drugs, then the officer has probable cause to search without the person’s consent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By contrast, in other developed countries around the world, a first-time drug offense would merit no more than six months in jail, if jail time is imposed at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The second myth is that the drug war is principally concerned with dangerous drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There's a market for drugs of any kind. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The “drug-courier profiles” utilized by the DEA and other law enforcement agencies for drug sweeps on highways, as well as in airports and train stations, are notoriously unreliable. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You guys been doing any drugs tonight?” he said casually. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z For permission to stay in the relative safety of the river encampment, the leader, El Tirindaro, who is addicted to heroin, usually wants drugs or beer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Hmm, what’d you miss... A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He let himself out of the apartment quietly, so quietly that he surprised two drug addicts fumbling in the hall toilet. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a stretch, but I'm thinking that maybe I can lace one of the sheriff’s cigarettes with the drug, make him compliant, and then just finish the job. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Then my dad breaks into this whole rap about how bad drugs are and it’s like we’re making a television commercial or something. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z All I have to do now is pass a drug test, which she schedules me to take at the beginning of next week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wanna know why? She sold candy, Dr. Cook. Not drugs. Candy.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He had tried pointing out that the reason he’d been sent to Green Lake had nothing to do with drugs or alcohol, but that didn’t make any difference to them. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Now to explore another pair of common crime-drop explanations: Tougher gun laws Changes in crack and other drug markets First, the guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Any references to drugs, sex, or defiance of authority were out. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They urged the Court to prohibit the police from stopping motorists for the purpose of drug investigations unless the officers actually had reason to believe a motorist was committing, or had committed, a drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I started experimenting with drugs, and became involved with a gang in a nearby town. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I personally hate drugs. It’s too much risk, but the more the money the higher the risk. Tell this ...?” “William Irizarry.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z My sister tells me he is probably drunk or on a drug. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “No. And no more of your drugs. I have slept long enough.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As a perverse and incredibly boring experiment, I am now trying to prove that I can get by without the drugs and the drinking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “You could fake a drug overdose or something so you wind up in the ICU,” Kim says. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, when police go looking for drugs, they look in the ’hood. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I even robbed a petty drug dealer once. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At least three, maybe five swarms of robbers, some with Uzis, some on drugs, patrol the three-mile dirt paths that migrants must use to go around La Arrocera, authorities say. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z If I had died of a drug overdose or joined a cult, my mother’s thinking would have taken essentially the same form. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z This is why they invented drugs for heartburn. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Josh Wolf was the drug dealer,” I volunteer. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z There are too many gangs, drugs, and crimes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z White high school students typically buy drugs from white classmates, friends, or older relatives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Just a puff here and there, man, come on. I don’t do drugs.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As noted earlier, at least 10 percent of Americans violate drug laws every year, and people of all races engage in illegal drug activity at similar rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And who knew how many beach rats she’d drugged and collected into the mysteries of her church? Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the courtyard remained busy with drug activity. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Without those tissues, we would have no tests for diseases like hepatitis and HIV; no vaccines for rabies, smallpox, measles; none of the promising new drugs for leukemia, breast cancer, colon cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z At the time the drug war was declared, illegal drug use and abuse was not a pressing concern in most communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It has been a bumpy ride these last four years, but I found out that there is something better to live for than drugs . . . me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z They sat on the floor with blank looks on their faces, exhausted, or they loaded syringes with drugs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not everyone was attentive; one juror, as though poisoned by the numerous spring-fever yawns weighting the air, sat with drugged eyes and jaws so utterly ajar bees could have buzzed in and out. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Dad says it was full of drugs and needles and suicidal mums. And cockroaches.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The drug causes sedation, not sleep, so I am trapped in fuzzy, dully aching misery for what seems like always. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The normal where nobody tells you how sorry they are or talks about “Khalil the drug dealer.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z As a result, when Jackson County, Wisconsin, quadrupled its drug arrests between 1999 and 2000, the county’s federal subsidy quadrupled too. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Sitting in chairs alongside the six psych-unit cells most days, twenty-four hours a day, were the officers assigned to two kinds of special watch: suicide watch and drug watch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Did he realize that if he does become a hashtag, some people will only see him as a drug dealer? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I’ve never taken drugs, but I wonder if taking acid might feel something like listening to Space Is the Place in the dark while staring up at glow-in-the-dark sticker constellations. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1996, Congress passed welfare reform legislation that gratuitously included a provision that authorized states to ban people with drug convictions from public benefits and welfare. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The media bonanza surrounding the “new demon drug” helped to catapult the War on Drugs from an ambitious federal policy to an actual war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They went in at drug shops and garages. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Law enforcement officials, no less than the rest of us, have been exposed to the racially charged political rhetoric and media imagery associated with the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But the law was applied much more broadly, and soon thousands of mothers with children living in poor, marginalized communities where drugs and drug addiction are rampant were at risk of prosecution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “The Italian mob. They ran this whole area way back in the day—drugs, gambling, blackmailing...you name it.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z At Brooklyn Hospital, he was given a drug to break up the clot blocking an artery to his heart. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As we shall see, the legal rules governing prosecutions, like those that govern sentencing decisions, maximize rather than minimize racial bias in the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Wes didn’t live there so much as he used Nicey’s home as a place to rest and, increasingly, a place to hide his drugs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z One was from a halfway house intake coordinator who testified that, in his experience treating crack addicts, whites and blacks dealt and used the drugs in similar proportions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “What drugs? We’re not talking about drugs. The kid needed to know which end was up, that’s all. First off, he needed to get his backside whipped for hurting Paul.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He would infect a few monkeys with the virus, and then he would treat them with drugs in the hope that they would get better. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He performed research on defenses against hot viruses—vaccines, drug treatments—and he did basic medical research on rain-forest viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He owed money but had no drugs to sell—he had to figure out how to make that money back quickly. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He was still talking about the documentary and how heroin was the new drug of choice for suburban kids. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In a parody of Aaron Montgomery Ward’s fast-growing empire in central Chicago, Holmes had begun selling sham drugs that he guaranteed would cure alcoholism and baldness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some of them sell illegal goods—drugs, mostly. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The first time I took all these drugs at the same time, I began to perspire so much that I took off all my clothes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It may be surprising to some that drug crime was declining, not rising, when a drug war was declared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By the time he was thirteen, he had started abusing drugs and alcohol. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She couldn’t take care of us and her drug habit, too. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “White people,” the study’s authors observed, “are simply not perceived as drug offenders by Seattle police officers.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The drug war helped to birth this system of mass incarceration and create a vast, new undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And if he ever found out that Perrington or his father had sanctioned it, or somehow played a hand in Kaltain drugging her...Dorian’s hands clenched into fists at his sides. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Every hour or two he would fumble through the drug bag, squinting at the labels, and shake out tablets of Dexedrine and Prozac and deprenyl. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And if the mood strikes, the prosecutor can transfer drug defendants to the federal system, where the penalties are far more severe. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Josh Wolf says the drugs in his jacket were sold to him by your brother,” my father prods. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z We were clearly ahead of our time but figured that, with enough drugs, the citizens of North Carolina would eventually catch up with us. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z My cousins sold the drugs that killed the white girl. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Hippies, you know, people like that. Actually, you’re far too young to remember hippies. They say it’s more effective than taking drugs.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When we ran out of food, drugs, ammunition, and gasoline to watch war films, we raided rebel camps, in towns, villages, and forests. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Few legal rules meaningfully constrain the police in the drug war, and enormous financial incentives have been granted to law enforcement to engage in mass drug arrests through military-style tactics. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Jay’s at the table, surrounded by recovering drug addicts. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In her drugged dream, I am no more interesting than the furniture and of less consequence. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I’m worried that if I say any of that, she’ll think I am crazier than she already does and I’ll have to take those terrible drugs they gave me at the hospital. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z We were always either at the front lines, watching a war movie, or doing drugs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Instead, his face looked serious, and his nose was big, even with that mustache, and he was telling us that despite what the teenagers said about drugs, he knew the real score. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor’s wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “You should have thought of that before you threw the knife. Now pour me a drink. I’ll drug the little squealers tonight. No! Not another word!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In truth, the fact that you were in the class likely meant you came from a difficult background, homes where parents fought or took drugs or beat their kids or maybe spoke a foreign language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In August 1989, President Bush characterized drug use as “the most pressing problem facing the nation.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Law enforcement gained a pecuniary interest not only in the forfeited property, but in the profitability of the drug market itself. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As we grew, we spoke more about drugs and sex and life choices, about race and inequality and politics. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Prisons should be for violent criminals, not mainly poor men from rough neighborhoods who get caught selling or using drugs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The worst thing about it is that I’m already in out-patient rehab two days a week, but I just have to make things worse by doing drugs more and more, harder and harder. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Dill was accused of shooting someone during the course of a drug deal after an argument erupted. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Artemis, my sister is lying drugged on that couch. She was almost killed. So explain yourself now!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Others believed that if it did work and prices fell, the drugs would become too widely available. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Well, yes—but I may use a few pages here and there to wrap a few drugs...” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z That changed in the 1980s, when local law enforcement agencies suddenly had access to cash and military equipment specifically for the purpose of conducting drug raids. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She felt like a visitor in her own body as the drug released directly into her bloodstream. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The Court ruled that the police are free to use minor traffic violations as a pretext to conduct drug investigations, even when there is no evidence of illegal drug activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "You got it, Baba," I said, knowing full well I never planned to try drugs with my dad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Football was just something I did along with drinking, smoking, and drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He no longer lived there, but he had a little operation there—he would bring drugs into the county because he could sell them for a higher premium than in the city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A flood of mentally ill people headed to prison for minor offenses and drug crimes or simply for behaviors their communities were unwilling to tolerate. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “You know, I saw on the news that there’s a drug some men put in women’s drinks.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We starve ourselves so we can fit into the perfect pair of jeans, we pollute our bodies with drugs to increase our muscles so we’ll look ripped without a shirt. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z After five years of treatment, the drug appeared to chase the cancer into remission. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The memory of my youth was such a surprising relief from all the hatred and despair, blood and drugs that surrounded me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z That must’ve been such a feeling, even through all the drugs, I think. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He had been a reporter for El Diario/La Prensa working on an investigation of a drug lord in East Harlem. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He battled the disease in Spain, where he lived, with the aid of an experimental drug that was not—and still is not—available in the United States. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z These rules have made it possible for law enforcement agencies to boost dramatically their rates of drug arrests and convictions, even in communities where drug crime is stable or declining. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She hoped that he was not involved in drugs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But when new friends introduced me to drugs, I began to lose interest in football. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I felt as if there were some type of war between my parents and the drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z We celebrated that day’s achievement with more drugs and more war movies. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z If he hadn’t been ravaged by the drug, he might have survived his wounds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z What drugs did exist were very expensive and often scarce. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Some might argue that as disturbing as this system appears to be, there is nothing particularly new about mass incarceration; it is merely a continuation of past drug wars and biased law enforcement practices. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On Sky Offenders, they were having a live thing about drug smugglers getting caught on parasails. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re a lazy bum! A drug addict! No one wants you here.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Neither Elizebeth nor her team was fluent in Chinese, but Elizebeth had learned some basic characters while breaking another drug case earlier that year. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z If it weren’t for the drug test, I might have stopped looking right then and there, but there has been a chemical indiscretion in recent weeks and I’m not at all sure I can pass. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that so many black and brown men are rounded up for drug crimes that go largely ignored when committed by whites is unseen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To relieve the pain they prescribed this drug and that drug and another drug, because the first one didn’t work and the second one didn’t work, either. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Laws prohibiting the use and sale of drugs are facially race neutral, but they are enforced in a highly discriminatory fashion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Others, the political prisoners, were subjected every fifth day to questioning under drugs. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The Ohio Supreme Court, reviewing the case on appeal, was obviously uncomfortable with the blatant fishing expedition for drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Slumped like drugged sentries asleep at the gates of Paradise. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “If it happens again, if you so much as think about it again, I call her. And you’re going to do a drug test.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Gold stopped on the street, in front of a drug store. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He struggled with drug addiction until his arrest. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The appeal of the dilemma has nothing to do, of course, with any interest we might have in women drug traffickers or in the criminal justice system. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I briefly considered my dad's offer: If you're going to do drugs, then bring them home and do them with me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She may think her life is too unstable or unhappy, or she may think that her drinking or drug use will damage the baby’s health. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Beverly Hills police thought it looked like the work of a drug addict, and accused a well-known local crook named Elmer Davis. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Her mother, drugged by Dr. Cuevas, was asleep, and her brothers and sisters and the servants were already in their rooms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And so long as the number of drug arrests increases or at least remains high, federal dollars continue to flow in and fill the department’s coffers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That Trujillo is going to drug me right here in front of a crowd?! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But I can’t give my mom all the credit for getting me to kick my prescription drug habit. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He tried to calculate how much weight he had lost, and how much money he now owed the connects who supplied him with the drugs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Suddenly, police departments were capable of increasing the size of their budgets, quite substantially, simply by taking the cash, cars, and homes of people suspected of drug use or sales. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “What if they hold a gun to my head and force me to take the drugs?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “We got a little sidetracked by drugs, me and Bobby.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He doesn't seem angry about my tricking him, drugging him, and running off to the feast. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Finn didn’t ask Jonas Apple why he’d drink a drink that tasted like aspirin, as concerned as he was about drugs. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z As he neared the corner drug store, which stayed open all night, he wondered if any of the gang was around. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s more drug activity, more drive-by shootings, and more innocent people being killed. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The study also debunked the assumption that white drug dealers deal indoors, making their criminal activity more difficult to detect. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Those who had taken the mercury purge were constantly spitting to rid their mouths of the foul taste the drug left behind. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Surely a drugged Mockingjay will be easier to dispose of in front of a crowd. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Defeat drives them to the worst this border world has to offer: drugs, despair, and death. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He brought together representatives from multinational drug companies, independent middlemen and distributors, nonprofit organizations—almost anyone who might have an impact on drug pricing. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “So we know who sells drugs and we both know who bites like that.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z It is a poor and working-class neighborhood, and in the late 1990s, the drug trade in the area, particularly on Westchester Avenue and one street over on Elder Avenue, was brisk. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Following the piece, they invited themselves to my apartment and I welcomed them, hoping that somebody still had some drugs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z My affection for him reached the point where he became my drug of choice. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z That is not what one would guess, however, when entering our nation’s prisons and jails, which are overflowing with black and brown people convicted of drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “No, no, no. I understand. There are guys like Dray in Haiti, too. We call them vagabon, drug dealers. Maybe some of them like to study, but they love money more.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In fact, in New Jersey, whites were almost twice as likely to be found with illegal drugs or contraband as African Americans, and five times as likely to be found with contraband as Latinos. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In racially mixed open-air drug markets, black dealers were far more likely to be arrested than whites, even though white dealers were present and visible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And just about every available surface inside was painted with bizarre and colorful graffiti, some of it very artistic, and a lot of it just nasty and drugged out. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Once the drug was in her system, she wouldn’t be able to stop it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The first is that the war is aimed at ridding the nation of drug “kingpins” or big-time dealers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Back when my mom was on drugs. I saw her strung out in the park one day. She came up and tried to hug me. I ran off screaming.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The way they showed it in health films, commercials, and episodes on crime stories, drugs turned you into something or someone else. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z And didn’t it lead to more serious drugs? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z "They kidnapped me in Rome. They drugged me. I got away as soon as I could. I'm so happy to be back. I just hope I can find support for my actions here." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a lot of gangs and guns and drugs then, so it was better for kids. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ebola experiments were not a success in the sense that the drugs had no effect on the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were widespread rumors of cannibalism, with claims that some children hanging around the station were drugged, killed, and butchered for meat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The drug had gotten stronger and stronger over the decades. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “This one is attached to drug now. I try to stop him...” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Tired of being locked up, tired of watching drugs destroy entire families, entire communities, an entire city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “I bet he’s totally profiling us right now. Probably thinks we’re drug dealers or something.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They talked about drugs and alcohol, too, and Farmer warned him against heroin. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Added on to the ex-cons living in halfway houses around the way, there were the addicts who used the drug clinics nearby. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z This federal grant money has resulted in the proliferation of narcotics task forces, including those responsible for highway drug interdiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I was getting paranoid—not about the drugs, but about the people who used the drugs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I don't know who came up with the traditional vachette program, but I'm willing to bet that he had some outstanding drug connections. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They went through the room from cage to cage, hitting all the monkeys with the drug. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Prior drug wars were ancillary to the prevailing caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the locker room Ben drank ice water as though it were a drug. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Allowing the police to use minor traffic violations as a pretext for baseless drug investigations would permit them to single out anyone for a drug investigation without any evidence of illegal drug activity whatsoever. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’m proud of her, but I always looked at it like she got off of drugs, and that was that. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Moreover, most people in state prison for drug offenses have no history of violence or significant selling activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As he lay in bed, he realized how time seemed to stop when he was high, how the drug—smoking it, feeling its effects, recovering from it—made him forget everything else. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “I cried when she drugged Peeta so she could go get him medicine and when she kissed him good-bye!” blurts out Octavia. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Cannon gave the teens drugs and played drinking games with them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It doesn’t make sense that he sold drugs. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z In fact, in any given year, more than one in ten Americans violate drug laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Also, the drugs they use to control my pain and mood sometimes make me see things. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Many also admit that a predictable consequence of breaking up one drug ring is a slew of violence as others fight for control of the previously stabilized market. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Butler had seen something like this once before when a force-seven earthquake had rippled through a Colombian drug lord’s estate seconds before he had been scheduled to blow it up. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z First we saw teenagers at a party smoking drugs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I culled symptoms of mono, plantar warts, shingles, borderline personality disorder and a bladder infection, as well as listing a bunch of side effects from some TV ads for drugs. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z TB experts had declared MDR treatment inordinately expensive, but no one had tried to reduce the main expense, which was high-priced drugs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A doctor gave him a strong drug called an emetic, which made him vomit up the ball. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, police officers use minor traffic violations as an excuse—a pretext—to search for drugs, even though there is not a shred of evidence suggesting the motorist is violating drug laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They would use the same name, but their Green Light Committee would serve as the ultimate distributor for second-line TB drugs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A middle-aged neighbor, Cole Cannon, had come over one night seeking to buy drugs from Evan's mother. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z After our summer in Europe, Katz had gone back to Des Moines and had become, in effect, Iowa’s drug culture. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Know where the drug dealers and smokers are at all times. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Anecdotal evidence indicated there was an increased appetite for drugs and alcohol. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He succeeded in getting WHO to agree to sponsor a meeting of drug companies; they would be urged to produce more second-line drugs, and competition would drive down prices, Jim thought. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Thousands of black men have disappeared into prisons and jails, locked away for drug crimes that are largely ignored when committed by whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Lawrence was working full-time on the railroad and living in a house filled with children, Zakariyya was still in jail, and times had gotten tough for Sonny, who was now busy selling drugs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z New York and California are just beginning to give first-time drug offenders treatment instead of prison sentences, and that’s a positive development. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the year 2000, and virtually no other doctor or clinic in Haiti was treating poor patients with the most sophisticated antiretroviral drugs available on the market. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Upon reflection, however, the prevalence of white drug crime—including drug dealing—should not be surprising. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The drug dealer had an authorized wiretap on his phone and, as a result, the police got a search warrant and went to the house where the call originated. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Life ended up being a little rocky for Shanon, because as she grew older, she got caught up in drinking and drugs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Sometimes the grown-ups driving by will call the police, but it’s okay because I don’t do drugs or spray paints. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z No more being stuck inside whitewashed buildings all over the world as doctors try drug after drug, treatment after treatment, none of them working. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He’d fought for tax cuts and credits for the working poor and was focused on cutting prescription drug costs for senior citizens. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And what made the cop think he was a drug dealer? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “You know how many rich white folks come to the courthouse on drug possession?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z While I waited for the drugs to kick in, I dried my clean hair till it was impeccably straight, and fussed over what I would wear tomorrow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I thought drugs might be something people did to you, like jabbing you with a needle while you were trying to mind your business. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z These results contrast sharply with the reality of drug crime in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’m starting to think about what Daddy would say if he knew that I was hanging out in a house where a known drug dealer lives. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He asks me whether I take drugs, drink alcohol. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The typical mandatory sentence for a first-time drug offense in federal court is five or ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The likelihood that a person of Mexican ancestry is an “alien” could not be significantly higher than the likelihood that any random black person is a “drug criminal.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And I said, "Why don’t you get someone else to do drugs with you, vato!" Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It wasn’t because he was some drug lord. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The clear majority of those subject to harsh mandatory minimum sentences in the federal system are people convicted of drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were never on drugs, but they like to help Jay cook breakfast and even make bagged lunches for folks like Ms. Sonja, who may not get a good meal otherwise. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Don’t you see? He wants to find you because he thinks you know more than you should about the drug dealer you brought home. It’s a trick. You should avoid him at all costs.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “No advantage there, Chino. Thass no secret. Anyone in El Barrio from the university of the street knows that the Italians controlled the neighborhood. They ran the numbahs, they ran the drugs.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z In addition to the violent students and the no-shows, there were the kids who did drugs and the ones who stole things. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z To begin with, it is extremely unlikely that a strategy based purely on costs, crime rates, and the wisdom of drug treatment will get us back even to the troubling incarceration rates of the 1970s. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There were posters warning students about the dangers of drugs and STDs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Many state and local law enforcement officials were less than pleased with the attempt by the federal government to assert itself in local crime fighting, viewing the new drug war as an unwelcome distraction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Violence flared in urban communities, not simply because of the new drug—crack—but because of the massive crackdown, which radically reshaped the traditional life course for young black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Dray was not the one who sold the drugs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And he knows whereof he speaks, having struggled with drug use himself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Nailer normally blessed the peace his father’s drug crashes brought. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z When I was ten I knew where drugs came from. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s begun to get things mixed up, because of the drugs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z So do the chimps.One day, perhaps quite soon, scientists may not need to use animals for testing drugs and for learning about human diseases. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z A few months into his administration, Mayor Schmoke was lambasted for saying, “I started to think, maybe we ought to consider this drug problem a public health problem rather than a criminal justice problem.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And I knew mothers who belted their girls, but the belt could not save these girls from drug dealers twice their age. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I remember feeling a tingle in my spine, but I was too drugged to really feel the pain, even though my foot had begun to swell. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He’s going to get a good education and my baby is not going to be sitting around here selling drugs or holding a gun on anybody. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A colored man named Henry had started a white barbershop in Cold Sassy a few years back, but these old fellers liked the drug store better. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Remarkably, in the United States, a life sentence is deemed perfectly appropriate for someone whose only crime is a first-time drug offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z No impartial observer could criticize this Court for hindering the progress of the war on drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He may have been strung out, but don’t blame the drug, blame him. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes, he had really bad aches, especially in his legs, and he was tired a lot of the time, and the chemotherapy drugs were making him feel pretty rotten physically. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been a moment backstage when I had been tempted to allow Arnold to eat the drugged treats. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z When I regained consciousness, it was the morning of the next day and the drugs had kicked in. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As children, they have to make day-to-day decisions about whether to go to school or whether to go on the corner and sell drugs. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as I had known him he was hip to the whole drug scene. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z In 1855, when he was nine, the family moved to Chicago, where his father established a successful wholesale drug business. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Slowly, slowly, with a drugged, fathomless calm, Henry bent and picked up a handful of dirt. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Seeing her thrash about while drugged had almost convinced him to order her death. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Prior to the 1960s a number of drugs, such as Atabrine and chloroquine, had been developed that effectively treated this illness. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I didn’t know much, but I knew you didn’t smoke drugs one day and leave them alone the next. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Because if you’re trying to make honest money and not just dealing drugs, people are always trying to take what you’ve got. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s Thursday, so she’s got classes tonight as she goes after that social work degree—she wants to make sure other people get the help she didn’t back when she was on drugs. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The most common offense for which people are placed on probation or parole is a drug offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The drugged treats were still in my pocket. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The drug game had its own rules, its own structure. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Then I turned round and saw some people walking down the street and I was frightened again because it was two of the people who take drugs in the house next door. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They made it known that it wasn’t a fair fight: the drug dealers were armed with state-of-the-art weapons and a bottomless supply of cash. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Whether the word is ‘impulse,’ or ‘compulsion,’ or ‘addiction,’ clearly there is an overtaking of rational, logical processing of information and judgment like we see with other drugs,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z All a police officer has to do in order to conduct a baseless drug investigation is ask to speak with someone and then get their “consent” to be searched. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the early 1980s, just as the drug war was kicking off, inner-city communities were suffering from economic collapse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He spent much of his time in West Baltimore but had decided to try to open up a drug sales operation in East Baltimore as well. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Some federal judges, including conservative judges, have quit in protest of federal drug laws and sentencing guidelines. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One side of the hallway is reserved for people who have been convicted of drug or property crimes and who have relatively short sentences of five years or fewer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I knew it was his fighting in Vietnam that made him turn to drugs, and I knew it was the drugs that made him steal from us. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Until 1988, one year of imprisonment had been the maximum for possession of any amount of any drug. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The child custody proceedings and public scandal had taken a toll on her; she had started using drugs and seemed to fall apart. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I was the good student, he was the bad; I was obedient, he broke the rules; I stayed away from drugs and alcohol, he tried everything you could ingest. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly I let my gaze rise, immediately realizing again the horror of his eyes, drugged and cloudy. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I'd go over to Rudy's, but I would drink only a sip or two of the Dixie cup he offered, and I wouldn't dare touch the drugs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z "My uncle's going to think I'm a drug dealer." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The clear majority of Americans of all races have violated drug laws in their lifetime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Both men, in their early twenties, had long criminal records that included drug charges, handgun violations, and assault charges. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She was so drugged, she probably wasn’t much warmer than poor El Viejo in his casket. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The first strange thing about contraband was that its most obvious forms—weapons, drugs, and alcohol—could all be found fairly readily inside prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Uplands became home to a thriving middle class, while the over 1,700 units in Cherry Hill became a breeding ground for poverty, drugs, and despair. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When a stranger lurks close—maybe a drug person slinking toward the nearby train—Guapo runs him off with deep growls and bites. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z He knew he must look out of it—he felt like he’d been drugged. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z You are also now branded a drug felon. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Before you ask, the gap of unemployment is due to my past drug addiction,” Jay says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z When he needed to buy eyeglasses, he let researchers infect him with malaria to study a new drug. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z These guys were in for drugs; that guy did some kind of computer extortion. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z How do you estimate the total need, per patient per year, for doctors, nurses, drugs, laboratory tests, hospital beds, x-rays, and so forth, in the best of rational worlds? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “What is this drug you have? What do you have to do with it to wake her up?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I couldn’t say anything to this sincere, drugged apology for having suspected the truth. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew how easy it was to make mistakes with drinking and drugs a normal part of campus life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It also had Zero Tolerance Policies toward fighting, plagiarism, drugs, and alcohol. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “I’m not giving people more reasons to make those assumptions about me. Do you see me walking around talking about drugs?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z By the early 1980s, the class drug was ready for the masses. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The voluntary use of such drugs was common and accepted. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “It would really help for us to know what kind of drugs we’re dealing with here.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z She engaged in disputes that annoyed the local nobility, and she sold soporific and perhaps hallucinogenic drugs as do contemporary Mexican curanderas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By happy coincidence, some of their fellow inmates were Mexican gang members with close ties to Colombian drug dealers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Some are so old or wasted by illness, drugs, or drink that I can’t place them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Hood was staring at him, bright, drugged, eerie eyes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All they really care about is feeding their urge for drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But Chris used to always tell me that drug dealers played to keep their minds sharp. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The kids in this building deserve a chance: not being around drugs, being able to go to different places and see different things in life. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Though Corcoran had no known history of drug abuse, sources close to the boy say that the normally extroverted Corcoran had become moody and withdrawn in the months prior to the disappearance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But before we kick back, relax, and wait for racial justice to trickle down, consider this: Obama chose Joe Biden, one of the Senate’s most strident drug warriors, as his vice president. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I grabbed a box as though it were a pound of heavy drugs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother had died when he was just three years old, and he had struggled with drugs and alcohol before he decided to enlist. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was a not-too-bad-looking man around thirty-five who seemed too tired even to pretend to be all polite and friendly and he said I’m sorry to bother you but have you got any drugs? How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z This is so, even when they have been imprisoned for minor offenses, such as possession and sale of a small amount of drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Aside from the crooked matches, they said, sumo was rife with drug use and sexcapades, bribes and tax evasion, and close ties to the yakuza, the Japanese mafia. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Until I know the drug test results, I feel obliged to keep looking for jobs. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Which is why he had to say something when he saw one of those drug customers take a shortcut across the garden. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a mind-altering drug we took daily. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Recall the study discussed in chapter 3 that revealed that when survey respondents were asked to picture a drug criminal, nearly everyone pictured someone who was black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z IDA specialized in driving down prices of essential drugs, the kind that the indigent sick need most urgently. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z One might imagine that the legal rules described thus far would provide more than enough latitude for the police to engage in an all-out, no-holds-barred war on drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But as an African American, he was not only targeted by the drug war but then denied access to housing because of his conviction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From his PhD research on Korean pharmaceutical companies, Jim knew that the price of a drug to the public often had little to do with the costs of manufacturing or distributing it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Before long he is selling drugs, mugging suburbanites, carrying a gun. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “It’s hard to stay away from those drugs,” she says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I nod, as if in a dream, as if I can’t stop taking this drug. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At this point, I don’t know if it means drugs or death. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “He thought your brother might have hidden the drugs in here. Without you knowing.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z On the fifteenth of May, while David was in his last day of school in the eighth grade, his uncle Owen died in a drugged state resembling a coma. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z After leaving the Mayo Clinic, Gey spent several days in New York City at Sloan-Kettering for another study, and he underwent chemotherapy at Hopkins using a drug not yet approved for use in humans. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z About once a week we had some kind of pill overdose or drug- related emergency at the hospital—often involving homemade works. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z This stunning development reflects the dramatic increase in the number and race of those sent to prison for drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The drug trade ran so rampant and gang warfare was so ubiquitous in that part of Brooklyn that most people would take to the safety of their apartment at nightfall. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Approximately a half-million people are in prison or jail for a drug offense today, compared to an estimated 41,100 in 1980—an increase of 1,100 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But after several doses of these drugs, all I felt was numbness to everything and so much energy that I couldn’t sleep for weeks. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Although the drugs have erased the infection, he's still pretty weak. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Thus, for countless poor people, particularly racial minorities targeted by the drug war, public housing was no longer available, leaving many of them homeless—locked out not only of mainstream society, but their own homes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Once blackness and crime, especially drug crime, became conflated in the public consciousness, the “criminalblackman,” as termed by legal scholar Kathryn Russell, would inevitably become the primary target of law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was so much money to be made that drug gangs rapidly expanded their ranks, sucking in some of our best friends, and turf wars became deadly, aided by the influx of sophisticated firearms. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Shortly before his death, Justice Thurgood Marshall felt compelled to remind his colleagues that there is, in fact, “no drug exception” written into the text of the Constitution. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Now the syringes were ready to be filled with drugs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it is questionable whether any specialized drug enforcement activity would exist in some states without the Byrne program. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It wasn’t only the drug addicts throughout the world or the Illegals doomed to slavery. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you’re a drug addict,” says Taft, “there is something you need to know.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z But then she thought of Nestor falling lifeless in the snow, of the cells full of Grisha lost in their own misery, all because of this drug. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z No. Studies consistently indicate that drug markets, like American society generally, reflect our nation’s racial and socioeconomic boundaries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was the drugged, sleepy feeling that came from sipping glasses of milk, drinking them slowly so that they would last a long time, and drinking enough for the first time in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She changes the music to narcocorridos, those horrible Mexican songs about drug traffickers who buy diamond-encrusted guns and cut each other’s heads off. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Despite the introduction of different, more powerful drugs, the new kind of malaria spread across Asia, then to Africa, and eventually to South America. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z No drugs or weapons were found during the raid and no charges were filed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The greatest failure of the Reform Act, however, has nothing to do with one’s due process rights once property has been seized in a drug investigation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The teeth were extracted and she bought me an ice cream cone from the side window of a drug counter. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z To find a means to ensure real control over cheaper drugs, Jim enlisted the help of an ally at WHO, a young man who had worked at PIH. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z One rainy day back in second grade her mom was so strung out on drugs that she couldn’t unlock the door to let Fuchsia into their apartment after school. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z This abnormality could be checked, although possibly not cured, by taking certain drugs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Replacing them, he looked straight at me, “It is no surprise that a boy might fear a whipping enough to drug himself for it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If some drug dealer hadn’t sold my mom her first hit, she could’ve gotten her degree already and would have a good job. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z My mom died of cancer, which was no big secret, but hers died from a drug overdose. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t go outside because of all the drug dealing in the neighborhood, but she told him she wished she could have flowers in her front yard. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Mama loved her drugs more than she ever loved me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Another night, Patrick took me to this place where they sell poppers, which is this drug you inhale. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z This would guarantee sales for the drug companies and motivate them to produce the drugs at cheap prices. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The act included a civil forfeiture provision authorizing the government to seize and forfeit drugs, drug manufacturing and storage equipment, and conveyances used to transport drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Modern drug forfeiture laws date back to 1970, when Congress passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z African Americans are not significantly more likely to use or sell prohibited drugs than whites, but they are made criminals at drastically higher rates for precisely the same conduct. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The population under correctional control—on probation or parole—has tripled as well, an increase driven almost entirely by drug convictions and other nonviolent crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Being sick from drugs wasn’t like being sick from a cold, although Uncle D could never seem to be rid of the cold he always had. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z All I knew was that it was controllable and wouldn’t affect my work habits ... if I take the prescribed drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z We said “Crack is wack!” and we made sure everybody could have guns instead of drugs. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z These gross racial disparities simply cannot be explained by rates of illegal drug activity among African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In at least fifteen states, blacks are admitted to prison on drug charges at a rate from twenty to fifty-seven times greater than that of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He doesn’t care about his son or any of his family— all he cares about is his drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z When I wake, I wonder if this will be the only way I sleep now, with drugs shot into my arm. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Instead of sitting among the dead bodies, the bundles of food, crates of ammunition, and bags of drugs, we took cover in the nearby bushes and guarded the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Do you have any idea how old watching idiot kids drink and do drugs up here on the rocks is getting? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Her cholesterol levels were stubbornly high and her blood pressure was up, despite drugs for both. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Allegations of racial profiling in federally funded drug interdiction operations resulted in numerous investigations and comprehensive data demonstrating a dramatic pattern of racial bias in highway patrol stops and searches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His bosses, the connects, and the ones bringing the drugs into Baltimore were making the real money. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But taking risks is at the heart of the drug enterprise, and scared money didn’t make money. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He began lobbying officials there to include the various second-line antibiotics on their list of “essential drugs”—a list that the ministries followed and allocated money for in their budgets. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It had been around half past four when he had been shot with what must have been a drugged dart. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z In six years, the priest has seen twenty-six die from drugs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He saw a little girl pick her way through the snow and stop at a corner newsstand; a man hurried out of a drug store and sold the girl a paper. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The same is true in the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Undoubtedly, the political and cultural context of the drug war—particularly in the early years—encouraged the roundup. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I watched him steal money from my mother’s purse and sell our belongings for drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He had a drug-abusive mother—who probably wasn’t raised right by her mother either—and the drugs were taking over her life. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The population most affected by this misguided law is formerly incarcerated women with children, most of whom were imprisoned for drug crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z "Uh, after that? You mean, like, get into college and get a job and get married and give you grandchildren and stay off drugs and live happily ever after?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z He pats them down to check for drugs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She had seen the thin, ragged drug addicts huddled on street corners, begging for scraps. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He was dying, his eyes glazed with the pain-killing drug of shock; yet his muscles still flexed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Every quarter, we would have to submit our schedules for the next three months for possible drug testing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I don’t understand how everyone can make it seem like it’s okay he got killed if he was a drug dealer and a gangbanger.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z People charged with drug offenses, though, are disproportionately poor people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The thug ghetto girl with the drug dealer? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z It has been estimated that 95 percent of Pipeline stops yield no illegal drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From what I knew, drugs didn’t let go of you just like that. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Because the “car” was guilty of transporting someone who had broken a drug law at some time, she could legally lose her only form of transportation, even though she herself committed no crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She looks at me and asks, “Does this have something to do with the police shooting that drug dealer in your neighborhood?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When they walk by his drug haunts, she holds his hand tighter, hoping it will help. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Matt wondered whether the Keepers had managed to wake up from their drugged sleep. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Another 10 percent, or 7,000, were under the supervision of a psychiatrist, “taking some drugs.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now I understand. You’re still under the influence of some medicinal drug.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people heard this as a cry for drug legalization in Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Then he started running the streets, disappearing with other women for nights on end, and coming back only to sell drugs out of the house while Deborah’s children sat and watched. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z About 90 percent of those sentenced to prison for a drug offense in Illinois are African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the real world, some doctors peddled drugs on the black markets, desperate patients sold their antibiotics to buy food, and stupid pharmacists mixed up prescriptions. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z If both are caught for drug possession, say, the white guy is more likely to be sent to treatment and the black guy is more likely to be sent to jail. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He spied Yossarian finally with a feeling of immense joy, and then his mouth gaped open slowly in unbearable horror as he noted Yossarian’s vivid, beaten, grimy look of deep, drugged despair. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z By the judge's directions, the various drugs were placed in this and it was locked. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair cut, and getting born. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I need to ask if you’ve ever taken drugs,” Ms. Finn says, looking me straight in the eye, daring me to lie. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I had not entirely believed Cloke about the drugs to be found upstairs, but when I went up with him again I saw he had told the truth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The calculation is similar to the one on false positive results in drug testing, and, like it, demonstrates that misinterpreting fractions can be a matter of life and death. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Business” has been her code word for drug dealing since I was seven years old and asked her how she made enough money to buy expensive sneakers. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The prevalence of illegal drug activity among all racial and ethnic groups creates a situation in which, due to limited law enforcement resources and political constraints, some people are made criminals while others are not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers— the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being “reamed out” by managers—are part of what keeps wages low. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Or I could let Arnold eat the drugged treats, embarrass Froelich, and let Ginger go on. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Two months after his eighteenth birthday, Clary was stopped and searched in the St. Louis airport because he “looked like” a drug courier. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “The bacteria in Will’s lungs are deeply colonized. Antibiotic penetration into lung tissue requires time for any drug.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The men were moving with slow, drugged movements. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the fact that most drug arrests are for nonviolent minor offenses, the War on Drugs has ushered in an era of unprecedented punitiveness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And the drug game was everywhere, with a gun handle protruding from the top of every tenth teenager’s waistline. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z No doors have opened since I’ve learned about my cousins’ drug dealing. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In other words, the net effect of crack is still being felt in the form of violent crime, to say nothing of the miseries the drug itself continues to cause. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The resistance within law enforcement to the drug war created something of a dilemma for the Reagan administration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Now I see what is really special to them . . . the drugs instead of me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z You, however, are still branded a drug felon, homeless, and desperate to regain custody of your children. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z First, Tony got shot in the chest during a botched drug deal. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z If indicted murderers have a hard time getting meaningful representation, what are the odds that small-time drug dealers find themselves represented by a zealous advocate? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We know that many important drugs used to cure human diseases come from plants or even from insects. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I was too drugged and traumatized to realize the danger of what had just happened. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z "I think these belong to you," I said as one by one I dropped the rest of the drugged biscuits on his lap. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z That was the last time Tony ever tried to talk to Wes about the drug game. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z So instead of Bodega getting fifteen to twenty for selling drugs, he only got five for possession, then got paroled in three for good behavior. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Drivers say it is enough to worry about officers planting drugs on their trucks and demanding bribes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It’s not to drugs but to gambling, specifically, to slot machines. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The intercalation of the drug test between application and hiring tilts the playing field even further, establishing that you, and not the employer, are the one who has something to prove. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, the odds that he would have been convicted of drug possession would have been extremely low if he were white. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But when I fell into mine, I was drugged with the exotic delirium of malaria, so mine is omnipotent. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I nod once, even though I never want to be a drug runner, and then get out as fast as I can. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then we do our experiments on them, like we find a new drug for cancer, pour it onto the cells, and see what happens.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We’re trying to keep these problems from becoming life-threatening, but what we need is drugs. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother always said that medical drugs are a special kind of poison, one that never leaves your body but rots you slowly from the inside for the rest of your life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They did not grow up like the children of the eighties and nineties, stripped of any semblance of family other than the constant presence of drugs and violence. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z By waging a war on drug users and dealers, Reagan made good on his promise to crack down on the racially defined “others”—the undeserving. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Big Time felt himself flushing, felt the drugs flooding through his body, felt himself easing into that state in which he just didn’t care about anything. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And you’re so angry that society is treating you like this that you take drugs and shoplift and form gangs in revenge. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It is impossible for law enforcement to identify and arrest everyone who commits a drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even in my deadened, drugged condition, this sends a stab of pain through me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “It’s not my fault. I wanted you to study. You preferred to be on drugs.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Richard still saw him frequently over the years, or as frequently as he could given that his father was sometimes in prison for drug offenses. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I would hear it so often during my teen years that I started to wonder if what he was really asking was for me to be his drug supplier. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I wonder at first, still drugged with sleep. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z At the time he declared this new war, less than 2 percent of the American public viewed drugs as the most important issue facing the nation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He staggers — is he drugged? — and falls to his knees. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I reached my thirties, my brain had been strip-mined by a combination of drugs, alcohol, and the chemical solvents used at the refinishing company where I worked. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The doctor started operating on me before the drugs took effect. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Only to make sure you weren’t experimenting with drugs or planning to shoot up your school.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It brings far more people into poor areas to buy drugs, which then increases the likelihood that they will take an infection home with them to their own neighborhood. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The police admitted to stopping Whren and Brown because they wanted to investigate them for imagined drug crimes, even though they did not have probable cause or reasonable suspicion such crimes had actually been committed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I scrubbed the cart with boiling vinegar while Eliza gathered the drugs and herbs we would use to treat the children. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The only consolation is that she died much faster than they would have liked, because her body was so weak from drugs and from her infinite despair over Jaime’s death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Forced out of baseball, Glenn Burke started drinking and doing drugs. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Following the Nelson litigation, questions about the drug combination that most states used to carry out lethal injections arose. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The red bricks were drugs, I found out later, when my sister told me this story. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The urgency with which his followers were clamoring to get into the open aisle also seemed exaggerated somehow, like they were all hopped up on some kind of drug. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Kind of like the drug dealer who’s done everything, and can speak with authority on the various forms of high. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “You gave her the drug, and she killed her master?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “What? You back on that stuff? Wasting my money on drugs?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Two days later, Kanei and Moriba returned with the corporal, some soldiers, and civilians who carried the bundles of food, drugs, and ammunition back to base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I straighten up, look Gomez dead in her eyes, and say, “I never saw him sell drugs or do drugs.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Unlike Hailey, some of them may not care that he was a drug dealer. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The combination of these drugs gave us a lot of energy and made us fierce. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “How did the drugs even get in our neighborhood? This is a multibillion-dollar industry we talking ’bout, baby. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Stripped of that, as she is now, there’s only a slight young woman, her wide-set eyes fighting to stay awake against the power of the drugs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They pinpointed the ship that was carrying the drugs, and customs agents raided it as soon as it docked. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He has two children, and a more serious criminal record that includes a felony drug conviction for selling near a school yard. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She told me her doctors started prescribing the drugs in 1997 after what she referred to as “the Gold Digger Situation,” which she refused to tell me about. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The ubiquity of illegal drug activity, combined with its consensual nature, requires a far more proactive approach by law enforcement than what is required to address ordinary street crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but I can’t imagine that whole circumcision thing without any drugs, man. Way too painful if you ask me!” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Everyone had lost a child, somehow, to the streets, to jail, to drugs, to guns. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Reese, for example, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals described a drug task force completely corrupted by its dependence on federal drug money. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I tried to think through the drugs, through the distant pain, but there was no honest explanation I could give them—none they would believe. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They wrapped her in bandages, kept her drugged, and waited for skin grafts. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not into drugs. I don’t like hanging out with other criminals,” he told me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An affinity for street drugs was the only explanation for what were clearly the rantings of a strung-out lunatic. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He has looked closely at the chemical relationship between drugs and technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The county had sent me an assortment of drugs including a little penicillin, so I was able to give the child a shot. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s see...We got broke, illiterate, drug dealer, and now, girlfriend beater?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The absence of significant constraints on the exercise of police discretion is a key feature of the drug war’s design. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He started taking malaria pills, but they didn’t do any good, so he asked one of the nurses to give him an injection of an antimalarial drug. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “A freebie from the road gods—a car like this will make a great undercover vehicle for drug interdiction.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We waited for Mr. Lias at the drug store because Cold Sassy’s post office was in there, a big pigeonhole desk over where the telephone central switchboard used to be. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The notion that most illegal drug use and sales happens in the ghetto is pure fiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What if he grew up to be a junkie, and when I caught him with a bent spoon under his thin dirty mattress, he'd scream that he learned how to do drugs from watching me? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They are rewarded in cash—through drug forfeiture laws and federal grant programs—for rounding up as many people as possible, and they operate unconstrained by constitutional rules of procedure that once were considered inviolate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This time the drug war is the system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This ruling was remarkable given that, prior to the Drug Reform Act of 1986, the longest sentence Congress had ever imposed for possession of any drug in any amount was one year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Most high school and college students today have no recollection of the political and media frenzy surrounding the drug war in the early years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Drunk? On drugs? On this guy’s land in the middle of the night?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Had a scholarship to every school in this state until he got a taste for drugs—for robbing gas stations. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “But if an editor is taking a negative position on something like war or drugs, wouldn’t that really be positive?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z In 1972, there were just a few hundred paramilitary drug raids per year in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, there’s not enough of the drug left in my veins for me to ignore the pain in the left side of my body. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Maybe they had a fight when she found out he’d smuggled drugs into the country. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They were torn apart by disease, drugs and alcohol, pride, fear, and anger. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z "I found out what your 'drug stores' were." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Dad always has an excuse: traffic, last-minute customers at the pharmacy who’ve run out of their prescriptions and can’t wait until morning, a salesman stopping by with drug samples. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Whites are consistently more likely to avoid prison and felony charges, even when they are repeatedly caught with drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Well, technically we were at home, and even though my dad was at work, doing drugs with my sister seemed like the next best thing. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So long as mass drug arrests are concentrated in impoverished urban areas, police chiefs have little reason to fear a political backlash, no matter how aggressive and warlike the efforts may be. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The guns and drugs and all that, not really my thing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z But "Let's do drugs together!" was his leading parental philosophy on the subject of illegal substances, and it definitely fit into the "Super Cool" part of the pie chart. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She spoke with remorse about how her life had spiraled out of control when she started abusing drugs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I would destroy these treats, and then, if time and opportunity allowed, I would find Nadia's supply and substitute good ones for the drugged ones. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “It was because of the manifestation before the election. What you would call a protest, like the one for that girl who died because of drugs. Did they find out who gave her those drugs?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I’m sending a message: If you’re on drugs and you have children, get into a rehab program and help your children before they get out there and be doing the same thing as you. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z So he stayed in the middle of the room as he went forward, while Sergeant Amen followed him, holding a syringe full of drugs on a pole. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Put a little gate around them so they wouldn’t get trampled by the customers going to the house next door to buy drugs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Two blocks from school, drug dealers slip powder or pill packets to customers, stuffing cash into their pockets. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z He went to a drug store and bought one for a dollar. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Like I said, nobody likes selling drugs,” he says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Although whites were more likely to be guilty of carrying drugs, they were far less likely to be viewed as suspicious, resulting in relatively few stops, searches, and arrests of whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If I could entertain and entrance, I would be like a drug, compelling him to follow us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In fact, the Times reported that police departments had an extraordinary incentive to use their new equipment for drug enforcement: the extra federal funding the local police departments received was tied to antidrug policing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was denied because of an earlier drug possession charge for which he had pleaded guilty and served thirty days in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Exactly prior to the Geek Club era, I went through my rebellious phase and got pretty heavy into drugs and got involved in a gang. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, here’s a drug the drug warriors ought to take a little more interest in. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as I was tempted to ask her about the dirty drug tests, Art interjected. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z A firm can secure this monopoly power through patents, but that wasn’t the case with the second-line TB drugs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Because of this, drug companies were willing to pay enormous sums to work with his cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Once convicted of felony drug charges, one’s chances of being released from the system in short order are slim, at best. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I didn't know about them, but I was hoping the people of the world might be united by something more interesting, like drugs or an armed struggle against the undead. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I had an idea that this was all part of the boys’ plan, the woods, the shack, the cots, the drugs, the sharing of saliva. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They thought Sardothien could defeat such a man if she wasn’t drugged? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As Stutman recounted years later: The agents would hear me give hundreds of presentations to the media as I attempted to call attention to the drug scourge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He walked for miles through a steady drizzle trying to clear his mind while thirteen-year-olds ran drugs up and down the streets. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When the Vietnamese got kids hooked on drugs and we had to fight a war to stop it, did we give in? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z A lot of people thought you wouldn’t get hooked if you skin-popped instead of injecting the drug directly into a vein. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I was going to have a drug addict on my hands. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He should have done something other than watch when she had so clearly been drugged. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “No, I’m not back on drugs, Ms. Lewis. I’m simply in a bad situation at the moment. I’m begging you, mother to mother, to give me more time.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z "Massive, that means large and heavy. Thus television is the drug of fat heads. Opiate of the massives." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z If I were on drugs that good, maybe I wouldn’t have time to get depressed. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Preliminary indications suggest Miss Parrish may have died of natural causes, but police have not yet ruled out foul play or drug use. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Instead, she says angrily, your grandmother Maria sent you to sell spices in the market, where you learned about drugs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Jail and prison became the state's strategy for dealing with a health crisis created by drug use and dependency. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Somewhere over Nebraska, the drug parasailers were being shot out of the air. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the number of deaths related to all illegal drugs combined was tiny compared to the number of deaths caused by drunk drivers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A girl named Rose says, “Well, because of her cells the medical field had major breakthroughs, like the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, and the creation of drugs that treat leukemia, influenza, and Parkinson’s disease.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z It’s like they picked the worst parts—the drug addicts roaming the streets, the broken-down Cedar Grove projects, gangbangers flashing signs, bodies on the sidewalks with white sheets over them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Their views on sex and drugs are worthy of their own chapter, but there were a lot of other things we didn't agree on. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The woman is brought forward; she walks as if she’s really concentrating on it, one foot, the other foot, she’s definitely drugged. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Does he stay out all night drinking and doing drugs, or does he take his job seriously? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “And I would very much like to know, how much drugs did you use for your fifty-three cases and how much did they cost?” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z "I had the strangest dreams when I was in a coma. It was probably just the drugs, but sometimes I wonder." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I learned my lesson with the mud worms, so I drug out an old piece of plywood and lay on that. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Bad immigrants pack drugs, break into your place, and steal things, he says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z My drug experimentation soon spun out of control. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He might as well have had a neon sign saying "We have drugs! Arrest Us Now!" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z In the drug war, the enemy is racially defined. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She was given drugs to stop her blood from clotting and to control her blood pressure, treatment that Woodhull officials say is standard for the type of heart attack she was having. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The two drugs working in me had my head going in opposite directions at the same time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A white library employee, watching them, assumed that the two black men were dealing drugs and called a supervisor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Dozens of signs hung above, telling kids to eat right, not to take drugs, to do their homework, and not to be a bully. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “The fact that he may have sold drugs?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z If you have no money for health insurance—and the Hearthside’s niggardly plan kicks in only after three months—you go without routine care or prescription drugs and end up paying the price. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The drugs weren't readily available in the United States, and so states had started importing them from European manufacturers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The legal rules adopted by the Supreme Court guarantee that those who find themselves locked up and permanently locked out due to the drug war are overwhelmingly black and brown. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He also wouldn’t say if he was a drug dealer or not. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Ending the drug war is no simple task, however. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Her eyes had been drugged and misty from the ether and then they hardened like glass. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Yet by 1987, when the drug war hit high gear, the industrial employment of black men had plummeted to 28 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The drug did not seem to be working. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s what this whole war story is. A medicinal drug. Listen, did you ever hear of the ‘Roaring Twenties’?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Only seven or so blocks from our homes, drug dealers hang out by the town courts and old men sit around drinking from brown paper bags. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The bus was stopped for a brief layover in Fort Lauderdale, and the officers were “working the bus,” looking for persons who might be carrying drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Mother—are you on drugs? How could you bring that—that freakazoid into our house?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z From the outset, the drug war could have been waged primarily in overwhelmingly white suburbs or on college campuses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “As for the whole drug thing, there’s no need to waste precious time. Really. Unless cigarettes count. Drugs and me? Not a good mix. Believe me, I’ve tried.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In the three months between his surgery and his death, Gey went to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for a week of treatments with an experimental Japanese drug that made him violently ill. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t need to use drugs to be a happy person. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Bush’s speech contained nothing newsworthy about drug policy, or Nicaragua, or the Federal Reserve, or balancing the budget, or social ills, or the homeless. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone knew that one drug alone would never stop TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The relationship brought Karen to rock bottom, beyond scandal and drug use into serious criminal behavior. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z If the drugged Healer had tried to return at night in a smallboat, she wouldn’t have had much of a chance against the current. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z After my mother was arrested in the sweatshop immigration raid, a prison doctor had given her a shot of a drug to keep her calm overnight; That shot, my mother believed, caused Caroline’s condition. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z If it weren’t for my father she wouldn’t have done drugs and believed that she couldn’t do any better than standing on a street corner asking for money. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Still later that evening, the drug in question escalates to crack. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Butler, most of the guests talked in general terms about civic responsibilities or about the dangers of illegal drugs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps in her drugged sleep she had picked something up and stored it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The same group of respondents also perceived the typical drug trafficker as black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Most states have partially opted out, affording exceptions for people in drug treatment, for example. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Let’s get to the point. You think I’m on drugs.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z People who lived in Murphy Homes felt like prisoners, kept in check by roving bands of gun-strapped kids and a nightmare army of drug fiends. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z That was the day I decided to never do drugs. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Tony had started dealing drugs in those shadowy hallways of Murphy Homes before he was ten. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She says she couldn’t think of a time the drugs had impacted her driving, noting that she’d gotten use to a dose that, doctors say, could be manageable behind the wheel. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Drug treatment on demand must be provided for all Americans, a far better investment of taxpayer money than prison cells for people struggling with drug addiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So-called consent searches have made it possible for the police to stop and search just about anybody walking down the street for drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He wore big round glasses and buzzed on about drugs in a whiny insect voice. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Before they turn off the lights, Principal Wertz announces that some of the content is pretty graphic, but that it’s important we see the realities of drug use. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The drug was Phalanxifor, this molecule designed to attach itself to cancer cells and slow their growth. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The vast majority of those arrested for drug crimes are not charged with serious offenses, and most of the people in state prison on drug charges have no history of violence or significant selling activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In a time of drug experimentation and excess, Bill was starting to look like a casualty. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “That was over four thousand dollars in drugs! I have to pay someone back for that!” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z To put the matter in perspective, consider this: there are more people in prisons and jails today just for drug offenses than were incarcerated for all reasons in 1980. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the past there have been shootings, drug dealings, and other illegal activities. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He had a reputation for being tough on drug dealers and gangs and illegal immigrants. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He suggested that I try taking Clomid, a drug meant to stimulate egg production, for a couple of months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z During this period, Nixon called for a “war on drugs”—an announcement that proved largely rhetorical as he declared illegal drugs “public enemy number one” without proposing dramatic shifts in drug policy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There are the old throwbacks, like Brutus and Enobaria, who are just here for another Games, and those too baffled or drugged or lost to join in on the attack. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She must have been drugged, because she couldn’t imagine how she’d gotten there, and because she did let him show her the house. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z White drug “criminals” are collateral damage in the War on Drugs because they have been harmed by a war declared with blacks in mind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It seems to take only one dose. Once the drug has run its course, it leaves the Grisha’s body weakened and the craving is intense. It’s quite debilitating.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The “social pathologies” of the poor, particularly street crime, illegal drug use, and delinquency, were redefined by conservatives as having their cause in overly generous relief arrangements. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Since finishing law school, I’d been living back in my old South Shore neighborhood, which was still relatively untouched by gangs and drugs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But things just got worse, with Alfred stealing and coming home on drugs, and eventually Deborah realized she couldn’t do a thing about it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z "That drug store business was just small change," continued Tom slowly, "but you've got something on now that Walter's afraid to tell me about." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Eleven: My performing career effectively ended the day my drug dealer moved to Georgia to enter a treatment center. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Taylor’s force grew quickly, in no small part augmented by boys whom he armed and drugged into a killing frenzy. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z And I never go into the park on my own because it is dangerous and people inject drugs behind the public toilets in the corner. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For Mary Anne Bell, it seemed, Vietnam had the effect of a powerful drug: that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure that comes as the needle slips in and you know you’re risking something. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Excitement is a drug, and people whose lives are filled with violence are always wondering where the next “fix” is coming from. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul sees me in plumbing, $8.50 to start, drug screen results, of course, pending. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I don’t understand where they got this stuff about drugs.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A culture showed that the bacilli from his body were resistant to all four of the drugs he’d been given, and to one other first-line antibiotic as well. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Police can stop, interrogate, and search anyone they choose for drug investigations, provided they get “consent.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Of course, the fact that white people are harmed by the drug war does not mean they are the real targets, the designated enemy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When I ask her what kind of drugs, all she says is “the worst kind.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Riddick now heads a drug prevention program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z No record of what she thought of physicians like the Shoun brothers, who were constantly coming and going, injecting her with what was said to be a new miracle drug: insulin. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z White drug users and dealers are rarely arrested, and when they are, they are treated more favorably at every stage of the criminal justice process, including plea bargaining and sentencing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This is my day of drug tests, also of traffic and a steady, appropriately sphincter-relaxing rain. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists could now pause cells at various intervals during an experiment so they could compare how certain cells reacted to a specific drug one week, then two, then six after exposure. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The drug economy played out every day on the cracked concrete lawns of Robert Taylor, and her preteen older sons, Nicholas and Willie, could not help breathing it in. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Clary had never attempted to deal drugs before, and he had no criminal record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z People sell drugs and make their fast money, and other people get jealous and just shoot them for the hell of it. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My pockets are disgusting, covered in spit and dust from the nearly swallowed pills, but it’s better than being drugged all the time. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z By contrast, whites—even poor whites—are far less likely to be imprisoned for drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For her, like Dr. Gazzaley, the applications are potentially widespread—someday we may be able to treat attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, and attention-related memory loss without drugs, which can have side effects. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As the limo receded into the distance, he felt the heavy, drugged sleepiness go away. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t bring a beeper into Carver because the principal there knew that the drug dealers used them. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the War on Drugs began at a time when illegal drug use was on the decline. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She received medical attention and was cured with the help of a drug treatment called Amitriptylin. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Then, as the monkeys became sick, he had treated them with a drug in the hope that it would help them fight off the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After a minute, Yossarian and a gentle warm wind were the only things stirring in the haunting tranquillity that hung like a drug over the vacated tents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z While I was in my hospital cell I stayed away from the drugs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It is not nearly enough to persuade mainstream voters that we have relied too heavily on incarceration or that drug abuse is a public health problem, not a crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She was in a lot of pain and the drugs were making her foggy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z And from somewhere down near my disconnected feet, there came this: “Are you okay? Did you take drugs or something? Can you hear me?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “When I told them about it they didn’t waste any time. They say it’s a chemical imbalance, and if I get the right drugs for it, I’ll be fine.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The warm room lulled his blood and a deepening sense of fatigue drugged him with sleep. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Like, I mean...if he was a drug dealer,” Hailey says, “that explains why...” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “But they are just boys, and when they come here, they find the pleasure of drug.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Even Barry McCaffrey, former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, once remarked, if your child bought drugs, “it was from a student of their own race generally.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A pair of gray high-tops dangle by their laces from the utility line in front of the house, telling everybody who can decipher the code that drugs are sold here. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z When Farmer and his team intervened, proposing a very aggressive combination of MDR drugs—based largely on Farmer’s guesswork—they needed official approval from the Peruvian doctors before the drugs could be administered. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z All human drugs work on bonobos, so whenever his wheezing kept him awake at night I gave him precious cough syrup I bought from the US embassy commissary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on Tom's lap Mrs. Wilson called up several people on the telephone; then there were no cigarettes and I went out to buy some at the drug store on the corner. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Hers was the tone of a person talking about a beloved sibling who had returned to psychedelic drugs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When I met him, prison doctors were heavily medicating him with psychotropic drugs, which at least stabilized his behavior. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A couple of days ago, while he was selling firewood, two men shot him and left him to die while stealing his money to buy drugs. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The War on Drugs has greatly exacerbated the problems associated with drug abuse, rather than solved them, but the fact remains that the violence associated with the illegal drug trade is nothing to be celebrated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were attacking the cancer with a new cocktail: two chemo drugs and a protein receptor that they hoped would turn off the oncogene in Gus’s cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z They don’t want their son to be buying or selling drugs, being bullied or bullying anyone else. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The fever abated and with it the doses of the drug. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The rollback has been so pronounced that some commentators charge that a virtual “drug exception” now exists to the Bill of Rights. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Next to it was another sign which declared that it was a violation of the Texas Penal Code to bring guns, explosives, weapons, drugs, or alcohol onto the premises. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z While radar stops were relatively consistent with the percentage of minority violators, discretionary stops made by officers involved in drug interdiction resulted in double the number of stops of minorities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He got up, on one knee, then on both; when he was on his feet he turned toward the drug store, still clutching the paper, amazed and angry with himself for having been so clumsy. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I measured out a spoonful and brought him a glass of water when he downed the drug with a grimace. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Many states were using drugs that had been banned for animal euthanasia because they caused a painful and torturous death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z My new friends were all into drugs, too, so it made it easier to get high. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But do African Americans want the media to talk about Obama’s drug use? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So the answer to the original question—if drug dealers make so much money, why are they still living with their mothers?—is that, except for the top cats, they don’t make much money. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z After school one day I saw George from our class hanging out on the street selling drugs. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, instead of running a gauntlet of bullies and drug addicts on my walk to school each morning, I went straight to my hideout and stayed there all day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I heard he was a drug dealer,” says Uncle Carlos. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Students walked across the Queen Street Bridge to downtown Hampton and converged on the lunch counters at Woolworth’s and Wornom’s, the local drug store. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Any drug you could ever think of, the pit stop had your twenty-one flavors. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They believed the suspects were operating under the assumption that the girls knew more than they really did about the dead man’s drug dealings. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Today they tested my blood to make sure it was clean of the painkiller, as the mixture of the two drugs — the morphling and whatever’s set my ribs on fire—has dangerous side effects. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They are and will continue to be; without commercialization, companies wouldn’t make the drugs and diagnostic tests so many of us depend on. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z At lunch at the Brasserie, a reporter had edged up to the Corcoran table to ask if they had any comment to make about the “drug paraphernalia” found in Bunny’s room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Do you think Humble stages scenes so he can get drugs?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Please, it was easier than planting Trojans in Canadian discount drug spam. You know, Spaceman, you just might have the chops to run this dude down.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z And now most of us are just doing what society wants us to do—contributing to the jail population, selling drugs, having babies, living on welfare. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z You deny witnessing any drug transaction; you don’t know what they are talking about. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Studies show that people of all colors use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Oh, God, I knew it. You’re on drugs, aren’t you? Look, whoever you’ve gotten mixed up with, we can help. We don’t have to bring the police into it. We just want you back.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I did what I normally did when I was in the basement getting stoned, which was ponder all the stuff Fang and I used to do before we dedicated ourselves to drugs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They were drugged and sluggish, and they were sea creatures. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Some countries faced with rising drug crime or seemingly intractable rates of drug abuse and drug addiction chose the path of drug treatment, prevention, education, or economic investment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Why was she even in the car with a drug dealer?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z But I am convinced that at twenty-three minutes to one Ratchett was still lying in his drugged sleep. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “You told me you weren’t a drug addict, but you have pills on your dresser.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z While incarcerated, he went through drug and alcohol rehabilitation, got his GED, and taught GED classes to other inmates for twenty-five dollars a month. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Usually, getting a new student in May meant something bad—like the kid had been expelled from another school because of drugs or fighting. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Eventually, the drugs wore off and I decided that I would never, under any circumstances, smoke pot again. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Williams juggled dozens of girls, maintaining three or four different apartments around the city, and all the while supporting himself by smuggling drugs up from the Bronx. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This makes me think of Eleanor Markey, and then Demetrius talks about medicines that are out there and helpful, and everyone volunteers the names of the drugs that are helping them get through. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Los Osos, once a group of neighborhood children who played along the river, became a band of forty men who move drugs and people across the Rio Grande. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “He just didn’t seem like the drugs type to me.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In North Carolina, Enrique focuses on working, on saving money, on cutting down even more on drinking and drugs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Trey swears that if Jay had gotten counseling after seeing Dad die, she wouldn’t have run to drugs to deal with the trauma. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Instead, we talked about the three men who were publicly executed two days before, for drug trafficking. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z "Ma'am, we have a warrant to search the premises for evidence of drugs or other illegal activity on the part of Tariq Johnson." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Then the police came and arrested the kids, and the kids started telling the camera or us they could smoke drugs if they wanted to. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The psychiatrist then proposed a drug that was milder, and the others at the big table nodded. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because most Americans, including those within law enforcement, want to believe they are nonracist, the suffering in the drug war crosses the color line. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As more than a few flame-scarred drug users could attest, chemistry is best left to chemists. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He emphasized the critical importance of good lab work to determine which drugs to use for which patient. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I knew that drugs existed that could reduce or virtually eliminate the potency phase of the Gethenian sexual cycle; they were used when convenience, medicine, or morality dictated abstinence. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of the TB tribe came around to endorsing the idea, and in a final compromise, WHO placed the second-line antibiotics in an annex to its essential drugs list. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Though visitors were screened with a metal detector, they could not be pat-frisked unless there was reason to suspect them, and this was one way drugs came into the facility. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In case the drugs weren’t doing their job, the Cramps tried loosening me up with a few comforting tales of Ted’s prior salvation successes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We are told by drug warriors that the enemy in this war is a thing—drugs—not a group of people, but the facts prove otherwise. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Why do you think some of your kids got involved in drugs and alcohol? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet in 1995, a few brave souls challenged the implementation of Georgia’s “two strikes and you’re out” sentencing scheme, which imposes life imprisonment for a second drug offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Please use them for as long as you insist on taking the drugs. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Pregnant women could now be criminally prosecuted and sent to prison for decades if there was any evidence that they had used drugs at any point during their pregnancy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Ninety-five percent of respondents pictured a black drug user, while only 5 percent imagined other racial groups. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Clearly, the rules of the drug war game are designed to allow for the roundup of an unprecedented number of Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Three or four times, swimming up through thick layers of drug- induced sleep, she had actually sought Estha out and slapped him until someone calmed her down and led her away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus it is here, in the poverty-stricken, racially segregated ghettos, where the War on Poverty has been abandoned and factories have disappeared, that the drug war has been waged with the greatest ferocity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z These stark racial disparities cannot be explained by rates of drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Mandatory sentencing laws are frequently justified as necessary to keep “violent criminals” off the streets, yet those penalties are imposed most often against people who are guilty of nonviolent crimes and drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Or the college kid who deals drugs out of his dorm room so that he’ll have cash to finance his spring break? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Thirteen days later, the Georgia Supreme Court reversed itself, holding that the fact that 98.4 percent of the defendants selected to receive life sentences for repeat drug offenses were black required no justification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For years he sold drugs out of the house where my mom paid rent. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I can’t walk around the school without somebody noticing me or pointing me out, and it has zero to do with the incident or the drug dealer rumors. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There was a danger, I instantly knew, that the feeling of power, even temporary, could possibly draw me in, could trap me the way that the temporary relief of drugs trapped people. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The list goes on: Mandatory drug sentencing laws must be rescinded. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When you puke on her puzzle, she launches herself at you—pushes you hard against the wall, and you’re too drugged up to fight back. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She didn’t think that either banning or legalizing drugs was a good response. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The man began to walk away with his head swiveling, seemingly searching for someone else to get drugs from. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The drugs from the previous nights, before we were brought to the city, had begun to subside in my system. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z For instance, any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The initial charge was fraud, but Swango was suspected of being a serial killer who murdered hospital patients through the administration of lethal doses of drugs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Stevens said that the club was a good start, but she needed more information that will put Dray and his drugs at that party in Grosse Pointe. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z "And if it runs out I can stop at a drug store. You can buy anything at a drug store nowadays." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “This adventure in fine dining looks like it’s been drug through hell backwards.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z What’s happening today with technology, he argues, is comparable to what happened in the seventies with drugs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The unidentified perpetrators planned to injure him, drug him, or hold him hostage on the day of the race, preventing him from riding and leaving Howard and Smith little time to find a qualified jockey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Studies have shown that most of the new inmates swelling the system are nonviolent drug offenders subject to mandatory sentencing laws. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Why would these young men, who are targets of a brutal drug war declared against them, put on a show—a spectacle—that romanticizes and glorifies their criminalization? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z People of all races use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And every drug war that has ever been waged in the United States—including alcohol prohibition—has been tainted or driven by racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “When we returned to Afghanistan, the Taliban asked me to help get rid of the country’s vast poppy fields that were used to make drugs.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z All of the financial incentives granted to law enforcement to arrest poor black and brown people for drug offenses must be revoked. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So now I'm waiting for the drugs to kick in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When a child is on as many heavy-duty chemotherapy drugs as Jeffrey is, the liver takes a beating. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten years later, Portugal reported that rates of drug abuse and addiction had plummeted, and drug-related crime was on the decline as well. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It’s worse than any drug giggles I ever got. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z We ban poor women and, inevitably, their children from receiving food stamps and public housing if they have prior drug convictions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Periphescence denotes the initial drugged and happy bedtime where you sniff your lover like a scented poppy for hours running. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Some wolves or something must have drug it cause it was right in the mouth of the cave, laying up, sitting up almost, on that very rock we slept on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Where were they when he was a young teen struggling with drugs and alcohol? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z During this same time period, however, a war was declared, causing arrests and convictions for drug offenses to skyrocket, especially among people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z State legislatures were eager to jump on the “get tough” bandwagon, passing harsh drug laws, as well as “three strikes” laws mandating a life sentence for those convicted of any third offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Maybe that was why my dad was so desperate to keep us from doing drugs with our friends. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z President Ronald Reagan officially announced the current drug war in 1982, before crack became an issue in the media or a crisis in poor black neighborhoods. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In some states, black men have been admitted to prison on drug charges at rates twenty to fifty times greater than those of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My dad wasn’t paying much attention, because he was busy tearing open luggage, removing the drugs, and buying new luggage. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Over the years, the list of properties subject to forfeiture expanded greatly, and the required connection to illegal drug activity became increasingly remote, leading to many instances of abuse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “If people knew why he sold drugs, they wouldn’t talk about him that way.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z We were on some kind of pill or drug I think, they put it in the food, to keep us calm. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Stiff punishment, indeed, for a minor drug offense—especially for his children, who are innocent of any crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Five years later, he was arrested again, this time for having about $10 worth of the drug on him. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I never tried to take more than one, either; it wasn’t that kind of drug. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z We kept on scouting neighborhoods for homeless shelters, community centers, training schools, drug rehabilitation clinics, halfway houses. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course there are. And drug dealers, too. But they don’t always have to deal drugs. There are other things to sell.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Songololo was the one I had to drug, but I had trouble judging her weight. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z At sentencing, the judge based the drug quantity calculation on testimony from the informant and another witness, who both claimed they bought crack from Marcus on other occasions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Added to these are the wide variety of synthetic estrogens to which we are increasingly exposed — those in cosmetics, drugs, foods, and occupational exposures. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She drifted in and out of a drugged sleep, and all he could do was hold her hand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He said to me, “I’ll have to say a few words to the men to explain to them why they should take their anthrax drugs and malaria pills, or they just won’t bother.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Escape the drugs and the dark cloud that hovers over Grafton. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He’s got three restraints on each arm, and a tube that can dispense a knockout drug just in case he loses control. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z With a locked-down supply of drugs, I managed to wipe out the rest of October and the first half of November. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Some of them corrupted me with nicotine, drugs, and alcohol. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I believed hospital drugs were an abomination to God, but if I’d had morphine that night, I’d have given it to Luke. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You are a drug dealer!” our father yells. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “Call me when you’re off the drugs,” he says, glaring at me and hanging up. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Those folks at the school district probably don’t want a former drug addict working with them. It’ll be okay. I gotta believe that.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, this drug forfeiture regime proved highly lucrative for law enforcement, offering more than enough incentive to wage the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I called him, but he definitely wasn’t interested in attending the Slater funeral, soldier or not, drug connection or not. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “So they said that he was working on a story around here. He was investigating a possible drug lord and then they found him dead.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He had the bright, wide eyes and the feral grin of an addict deep in his drugs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z When one of the most feared drug dealers in the neighborhood wants to drive you home, you let him drive you home. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s because of the effect of statistically frequent word sequences: the pair sex with attracts the phrase on the right; the pair on drugs attracts the phrase on the left. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Thus far the pain and the drug and the fever had dulled his mind. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The school friend says, “He was an older guy, a musician or something. He was into drugs. We didn’t sec Megan much after they got together.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides all his interest in medicine and drugs, he liked to work with machinery. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guarantee those two are back because so many parents bought that ‘drug dealer’ narrative about Bri,” Malik says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Who among us would not be tempted to lie if it was the only way to avoid a forty-year sentence for a minor drug crime? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Homes may be searched for drugs based on a tip from an unreliable, confidential informant who is trading the information for money or to escape prison time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At the hospital, while she lay in a drugged fog, the doctors coaxed the baby from her womb. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We chatted all night, mostly about how good the drugs were. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The drugs, the violence, the racial tension, the Irish mob—how do you explain who runs the town when you could get killed just for saying the words Irish mob? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z With budgets busting, more than two dozen states have reduced or eliminated harsh mandatory minimum sentences, restored early-release programs, and offered treatment instead of incarceration for some drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She pushed the plunger, sending a load of drugs into the heart, which killed the monkey instantly. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks sort of like a prep-school student, which will put him at a disadvantage in our school and make him stick out, because no one at our school has money, except drug dealers. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t mean the actual selling drugs part. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Although many collateral sanctions were repealed by the late 1970s, arguably the drug war simply revived and expanded a tradition that has ancient roots, a tradition independent of the legacy of American slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The fourth was only a young girl, and the drug had evidently affected her more strongly, so I lifted her on the sofa and let her sleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She had been in agony for several weeks, until she was able to live without drugs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She feigned ignorance and walked away, even though, she would later say, she remembered taking his money and his television set, too, back when she was on drugs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The coyotes, as they are called, are often alcoholics or drug addicts. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He bought toys for their children; he once watched a woman use her baby’s bib to sop up the blood of a teenaged drug dealer who was shot to death in front of Venkatesh. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Can we envision a system that would enforce drug laws almost exclusively among young white men and largely ignore drug crime among young black men? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Then there is the threat of the drug tests, hanging over me like a fast- approaching SAT. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve already heard that some of the parents are okay with it because they heard you were a drug dealer. They want Long and Tate back.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I woke early, having slept soundly and dreamlessly thanks to my gratuitous drug use. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z None of this is to suggest that the financial rewards offered for police participation in the drug war are the only reason that law enforcement decided to embrace the war with zeal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’m still sleepy, but the drugs have worn off enough that my head doesn’t feel like a paperweight. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The wreck of a crashed drug plane sits not far from the airport in Trinidad, the biggest town in the province. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Probably the best thing drugs will ever do for me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Then later, when things were going around about Salazar knowing things he shouldn’t about some drug king, I figured she must have felt even worse, that Salazar was a good man, God be with him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Officer Hull, I mean. He thought Shawna was selling drugs or something.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I started doing drugs,” Mama says, with her head sinking into her shoulders. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Because Mary suspected that my mother was still using drugs, she had convinced the judge to halt our visits, but if my mother tested clean, reunification was still possible. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Staggering racial disparities in the drug war continue but rarely make the news. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Maybe the drugs are sweated out of him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The drug had made everything seem as if it were happening in slow motion. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Dutch group’s strategy was to ignore the giant multinational drug companies, the ones that rely on research and brand names and patent protection. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Do you think drugs drove him to commit murder?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z They wanted drugs to smoke, drugs to snort, drugs to swallow, and drugs to shoot directly into their veins by any means possible. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Remarkably, this figure does not include drug task forces funded by the DEA or other federal agencies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t be able to tell me from any other skinned carcass they drug home that day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Politely he asks if there is a way that he can pay for his care, as well as the antibiotics and the anti-inflammatory drugs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z How many times did we catch them with drugs and guns? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Crack was different from the drugs that preceded it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When they tried to buy it in Paris, a drug company representative told them they couldn’t. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “What Cloke told us. About the drug business in New York.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I ask whether they do anything but drug testing here. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a small minority are rearrested for violent crimes; the vast majority are rearrested for property offenses, drug offenses, and offenses against the public order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Also, even though technology is not classified as “addictive,” some neuroscience points to stark similarities between how technology use and drug use trigger chemical release in the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But it is doubtful that the drug war would have been launched with such intensity on the ground but for the bribes offered for law enforcement’s cooperation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Your court-appointed attorney urges you to plead guilty to a drug distribution charge, saying the prosecutor has offered probation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They put cells in culture dishes and expose them to radiation, drugs, cosmetics, viruses, household chemicals, and biological weapons, and then study their responses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Even though I harbored a secret crush on Jonah, I knew at the tender age of fourteen that it wasn't wise to get wrapped up in someone with a drug problem. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The drugs and gang violence in the inner cities, the kidnapping and terrorism that is everywhere. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “That’s partly what the row with G. was about. He thinks I take ridiculous risks on the bike or in the past with drugs but won’t—” He stops when he sees my face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z As noted earlier, studies suggest that most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Anything she doesn’t want found on her property—drugs, or stolen goods. Good thing I ran her off, then.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z In fact, if you are white and middle class, you might not even realize the drug war is still going on. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Jim was told that various eminent TB critics had written to Geneva that they couldn’t agree with adding second-line antibiotics to the essential drug list. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They would cut his throat and look inside the stuffing for illegal drugs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z These budding drug lords bumped up against an immutable law of labor: when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn’t pay well. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Most are low-level, minor drug dealers—not “drug kingpins.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even though his heart is about to explode, Jus pulls the door open and enters the house he’s only ever eyed warily due to rumors about all the drugs and guns hidden inside. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Start distributing the second-line antibiotics in settings like these and you’d breed resistant strains that no drugs could cure, critics said. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Shoot, now I’m wondering if this fool even plans on hiring a maid or if she just drug me all the way out here for sport. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the new drug that caused the brain belch—oh, I must ask Rosemary about that. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Most incarcerated women—nearly two-thirds—are in prison for nonviolent, low-level drug crimes or property crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I know what kinds of people hear voices: people who drink too much, who fry their brains with drugs, who slip off the rails. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In my neighborhood gang violence and drug trafficking play a big role and kids have no one to look up to as an example of hope. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Despite all of the new procedural rules and formal protections, the law does not address the single most serious problem associated with drug forfeiture laws: the profit motive in drug-law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In fact, nationwide, the rate of incarceration for African Americans convicted of drug offenses dwarfs the rate of whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This argument is often buttressed by claims that most citizen complaints about illegal drug activity come from ghetto areas, and that the violence associated with the drug trade occurs in inner cities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The police are allowed by the courts to conduct fishing expeditions for drugs on streets and freeways based on nothing more than a hunch. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If drugs almost destroyed me, I wouldn’t take money that’s made from them either. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z A life sentence for a first-time drug offense is unheard of in the rest of the developed world. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My mom’s boyfriend exchanged all her jewelry with his dealer so he could buy his drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In fact, so-called differential pricing was standard in the world of large drug companies; Americans paid more for their products than people in any other country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Local police ignored the obvious evidence that the death was a hate crime and hypothesized that Donald must have been involved in drug dealing, which his mother adamantly denied. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Back in Haiti, he sent daily emails to Lima and devised drug regimens for every patient, exchanging important information with Bayona’s team. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Also, we took turns going down to the village to get something to eat and some drugs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I recognize the inertia, the unwillingness to start up with the apps and the interviews and the drug tests again. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The level of public concern about crime and drugs was only weakly correlated with actual crime rates, but highly correlated with political initiatives, campaigns, and partisan appeals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z While crime rates fall and the economy prospers, far more people than ever before are getting locked up, mainly due to mandatory sentencing for drug crimes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z During the day racial tensions rule the streets, at night gunshots are heard from drive-by shootings, and twenty-four hours a day, the gangs and drug dealers control the block, trying to hold down their territory. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The racial bias inherent in the drug war is a major reason that 1 in every 14 black men was behind bars in 2006, compared with 1 in 106 white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The story said that random urine tests had shown that 21 percent of Sing Sing inmates were on drugs, compared to a statewide prison average of 6 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bad. She said she still loved me. God, ‘1 love you’ really is the gateway drug of breaking up. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z After all, we had been doing such things for years and were all still on drugs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z After unloading the car, my mother began to tell my grandparents about what she had seen earlier, the woman buying the drugs from the young boy. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The Court made clear that its decision was to govern all future drug sweeps, no matter what the circumstances of the targeted individual. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Your brother used drugs,” she says matter-of-factly, unwilling to give up this line of reasoning. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z So the answer to this question begins with finding someone who did live among the drug dealers and managed to walk away with the secrets of their trade. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The essence was a review of the drug situation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I imagine flashing lights and people bumping into each other and drug trolleys zooming around like fast cars and that’s how it was in our living room now. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing this neighborhood, people were probably saying it was a drug overdose, because that’s always what people say. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The subjects would range from report writing to the use of force, from penal law to “standards of inmate behavior,” from tool and key control to drug awareness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did he tell her about the drug business?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She wasn’t only upset about the drugs, she was upset about the lying. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Like the prisoner she was, she lived on bread and water, though she was sure the water must be drugged. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The three of them got me strapped on a pull-down table, stripped me, and injected me with, I suppose, one of the veridical drugs. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Many doctors tested drugs on slaves and operated on them to develop new surgical techniques, often without using anesthesia. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I don’t know how long the questioning lasted or what it concerned, as I was drugged more or less heavily all the time and have no memory of it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Every form of medication in the book. Mom, too. And then me, with the pot...when you come right down to it, there isn’t anybody in the household who isn’t seriously drugged except the fish.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z And what about the prescription drugs I’ve been taking for a chronic nasal congestion problem? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And because the drug war has been raging for decades now, the parents of children coming of age today were targets of the drug war as well. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Whites never had to sit at the back of the bus during Jim Crow, but today a white man may find himself in prison for a drug offense, sharing a cell with a black man. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Yale historian David Musto and other scholars have documented a disturbing, though unsurprising, pattern: punishment becomes more severe when drug use is associated with people of color but softens when it is associated with whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His life descended into a nightmare of drug dependency and chaos, complete with the growing risk of death by overdose. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Although the officers weren’t really interested in the traffic violation, they stopped the pair anyway because they had a “hunch” they might be in possession of illegal drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the past, the black gangsters had bought their drugs from a middleman, the Mafia—which, as it happened, was then being pummeled by the federal government’s new anti-racketeering laws. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “No drug or medicine in any form was administered to the president,” he will later note. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Do you even know how lucky you are to be in this drug trial? But you just take it for granted. A spoiled, privileged brat.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I never would go out and stick nobody up, but I showed you who was the drug addicts, who was the wineheads, and don’t go with different crowds. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And I was stuck in the house with a child abuser, woman beater, murderer, drug user, and ex-convict. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Today, the political fanfare and the vehement, racialized rhetoric regarding crime and drugs are no longer necessary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The only job I could get in my neighborhood was selling drugs—so I decided to pass. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In any case, she refused to take the drug test and signed a paper for the termination of her parental rights to me instead. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The wheels, doors, seats, steering wheel, speakers, and radio are all missing and probably on their way to some drug dealer’s house so he can sell them. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She tells Vivian about living in the trailer on Indian Island, the car crash that killed her father, her mother’s struggle with drugs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They ruled the drug empire that formed the border between the United States and Aztlan. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z PIH had spent several million dollars of the philanthropist’s fortune to buy the drugs for Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Local police acknowledged that no significant level of violence was associated with crack in Seattle and that other drugs were causing more hospitalizations, but steadfastly maintained that their deployment decisions were nondiscriminatory. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If there are significant differences in the surveys to be found, they frequently suggest that whites, particularly white youth, are more likely to engage in drug crime than people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “When he was little, my father played with her kids here. She was murdered right inside her apartment for trying to stop drug dealers from selling in this very park.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z These drug interdiction programs were the brainchild of the DEA, part of the federally funded program known as Operation Pipeline. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The federalization of drug crime violated the conservative tenet of states’ rights and local control, as street crime was typically the responsibility of local law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even putting aside such concerns, though, recent research indicates that the basic assumptions upon which drug war defenses typically rest are simply wrong. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Myers told us that her murder had everything to do with drug debts and threats she had made to expose corruption. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, black men have been admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is more than thirteen times higher than that of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Why he sold drugs. He was trying to help Ms. Brenda pay a debt to King.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The effort to become invisible, or to appear nonthreatening yet dangerous, was exhausting, which is why in prison almost everyone wanted drugs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Use of physical force and psychotropic drugs was rampant. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z From the outset, stories circulated on the street that crack and other drugs were being brought into black neighborhoods by the CIA. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My dad would be enthralled by me more than any country, or obligation to his parents, or drugs, or new wives. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z My mind felt slow, drugged with the strain of thought. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z While kids like my daughter were piling up grades and accomplishments, Jesse was joining a gang, dabbling in drugs, battling Mormons, school administrators, and conformity. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One reason the Masks were so difficult to trace was because their motives were unclear: they weren’t interested in drugs, and they stole for sport rather than greed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There had been a development in the treatment of ALS: an experimental drug that was just gaining passage. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The only reason they need the drugs is because they are being raised on factory farms and fed corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z These facts, drug war defenders claim, make the decision to wage the drug war almost exclusively in poor communities of color an easy and logical choice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “A drug . . . hallucinations . . .” Then he shook his head. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The other difference between crack and other drugs was its method of distribution. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the United States now boasts an incarceration rate that is six to ten times greater than that of other industrialized nations—a development directly traceable to the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Gang activity. If I’m not mistaken, Officers Long and Tate recently apprehended a drug dealer on campus.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There’s the obvious—Red Bull, caffeine, NoDoz and other drugs—but this isn’t about skipping a couple hours’ sleep, it’s about staying up and staying here for the long haul. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Son, I want to talk to you about drugs.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the most addictive drug I did. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The size of the disbursements was linked to the number of city or county drug arrests. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What most surprised many analysts was that, in both studies, whites were actually more likely than people of color to be carrying illegal drugs or contraband in their vehicles. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The potential market was big—worldwide, as many as 750,000 people suffered from MDR, and treating all of them would require a significant quantity of drugs, because treatment lasted so long. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z We tell ourselves they “deserve” their fate, even though we know—and don’t know—that whites are just as likely to commit many crimes, especially drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I think that most prison time for drug possession does more harm—to families as well as to offenders—than good. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, before the Geek Club, Jesse had some ugly bouts with gangs and drugs, and several run-ins with local cops. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With no credible scientific evidence that a crime had occurred, the State introduced inflammatory evidence that Marsha was poor, a prior drug user, and obviously a bad mother for not seeking prenatal care. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z For the next half century it would be the drug of choice for young people. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If you are treated as an untrustworthy person—a potential slacker, drug addict, or thief—you may begin to feel less trustworthy yourself. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope you end up with no drugs, well educated. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting legislation was once again extraordinarily punitive, this time extending far beyond traditional criminal punishments and including new “civil penalties” for people convicted of drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “More addictive than most drugs. Sampling a lotus blossom awakens a craving that will never be silenced. Many have wasted their lives pursuing and consuming the petals of those bewitching flowers.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And he occasionally carried out strong-arm tactics for the cops and their allies, who either paid him in hard cash for his trouble, or else sometimes in confiscated hard drugs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't the drugs my parents were concerned with. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They can develop into new types of bacteria that the drugs don’t affect. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In his announcement of the “One Strike and You’re Out” Initiative, Clinton explained: “From now on, the rule for residents who commit crime and peddle drugs should be one strike and you’re out.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “No, and you won't have to. You just need to get close to him, drug him, and leave the rest to me. Then we'll liberate ourselves and hightail it out of here.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I asked Dr. Mel what would happen if drugs were banned from cattle feed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Why was he a drug dealer? Why are so many people in our neighborhood drug dealers?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Judges tend to imagine the police have a sixth sense—or some kind of special police training—that qualifies them to identify people who are guilty of drug crimes without any evidence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The drug dealers were more than willing to take him and put him to work. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Within a few years after the drug war was declared, however, many legal scholars noted a sharp turn in the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Regardless, all ten patients were very sick—some were carried in to see Farmer on stretchers—with TB that was resistant to four or even five drugs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z All^ of Gene Johnson’s infected monkeys died no matter what drugs they were given. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And in Southern California, a Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department employee reported that deputies routinely planted drugs and falsified police reports to establish probable cause for cash seizures. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I made the second call telling the cops that the drugs were in another coffin.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As the years passed, Joy kept hoping that Bill’s alcohol and drug use would fade. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z No doubt if Obama had been arrested and treated like a common criminal, he could have served years in prison and been labeled a drug felon for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The changes in the drug trade, the population, and the economy are all long-term trends, happening all over the country. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, at the epilogue, they inform you that the “subject” of the book died three weeks later from a drug overdose. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “I live here, too. This is my house, too. You tell me if you are selling drugs. You tell me everything!” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z At first I thought this was just the drugs, but then I realised his mind was clear enough. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is also suspicion that the victim was a drug dealer as well as a gang member. Officials have not confirmed if any of this is true.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “And there’s enough evidence in this house and in our veins to prove that you were drugging us.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The last place we expected to find Sonny Bono was in our sixth-grade health film talking about the dangers of drugs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Tony had now spent over a decade dealing drugs and knew how much money could be made in the game. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z With only a few exceptions, the Supreme Court has seized every opportunity to facilitate the drug war, primarily by eviscerating Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures by the police. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Ritual and ethical absention and the use of contraceptive drugs seem to have played the major part in maintaining this stability. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z This she anointed with deadly drugs and placing it in a casket she sent her sons with it to the new bride. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “At long last I get to do drugs.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The Ratignolles lived at no great distance from Edna’s home, on the comer of a side street, where Monsieur Ratignolle owned and conducted a drug store which enjoyed a steady and prosperous trade. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z She sits at my head, keeping an eye on all my vitals, adjusting the amounts of the fluids and gases and drugs they’re giving me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Junito dropped out of high school when he was a sophomore and started selling drugs in the neighborhood. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z You are told by prosecutors that you are needed to testify against one of the defendants in a recent drug bust. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In less than thirty years, the U.S. penal population exploded from around 300,000 to more than 2 million, with drug convictions accounting for the majority of the increase. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By contrast, funding for agencies responsible for drug treatment, prevention, and education was dramatically reduced. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z According to standard doctrine, there are basically three ways to stop a virus—vaccines, drugs, and biocontainment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Before we begin our tour of the drug war, it is worthwhile to get a couple of myths out of the way. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We were in it and went out scouting potential villages that had food, drugs, ammunition, gasoline, and other things we needed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z His dad told him: If you ever start taking drugs, or drinking, don’t come home. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Indeed, not long after the drug war was ramped up in the media and political discourse, almost no one imagined that “drug criminals” could be anything other than black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Peeta, who spends much of the night roaming the train, hears me screaming as I struggle to break out of the haze of drugs that merely prolong the horrible dreams. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He started telling me how he’d acquired a rare tropical disease after getting into a bloody fistfight with some Nigerian drug dealers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The post office being in one corner of the drug store, Dr. Clark is required to fly a U.S. flag. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I looked around the office at the names of the right drugs. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He sniffed, and Kaltain would have felt immensely nervous were it not for the drug curling around her mind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Guards who tried to crack down on inmate drug use were subject to death threats—purportedly by corrupt officers, according to one guard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I am “Mommy’s little girl” no matter how badly I am doing in school or what type of drugs I’ve tried. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The officials walked around the camp, burning the drugs in front of people. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z To confirm the diagnosis, samples of each patient’s TB had to be regrown in cultures and tested for drug susceptibility. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Other organizations, now intent on treating MDR in Russia, were still waiting for the inexpensive drugs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z "And what happened to the girl—the one you drugged?" asked Shasta. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z I’ll be off this latest clinical drug trial and out of this hospital and can do something with my life, instead of letting my mom waste it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Maybe there’s an adverse drug interaction. Something keeping the new drug from working as it should?” she fires back, her eyes practically frantic. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He took an apartment on Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, near Sixth Avenue, on a stretch of city block that was then heavy with homelessness and drug dealing. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This surge of public concern did not correspond to a dramatic shift in illegal drug activity, but instead was the product of a carefully orchestrated political campaign. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He didn’t like the way she casually tossed out information about drugging captive creatures or which of her babies liked to devour demigods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z "I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I'm not in either one now." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z After we ate and did drugs, we would guard the perimeter while the adults rested for a bit. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It occurs to me I have access to an infinite variety of narcotic drugs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the drugs probably slipped in through the Visit Room, but most, it seemed, were helped into prison by officers who were paid off. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all those sent to prison on drug charges. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Gonzales got word that there would be a search of a house down the road, occupied by at least four suspects presumed to have been looting and dealing drugs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “People are down there hanging out all the time, smoking drugs, fooling around, whatever else. They sleep in their cars.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z They said that essentially the drug is twelve hours of schizophrenia, and if you already have a lot of this brain transmitter, you don’t get out of it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He was in his sixties and had been a drug addict earlier in his life, making access to his veins difficult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Funny how, along with the drugs, that settled me down so by the time my parents arrived I was feeling pretty okay, although they were looking fairly distressed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We never did go back to live with Shanon, because she kept failing her drug tests. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Even though I have way too many control issues to do drugs myself, I am starting to get a sense of why Owen likes to get stoned. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z They used to hang out—watch TV, go to the park and hoop, sell drugs. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He hated that money and drugs seemed to be more important than people living freely. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Why make drugs for people who couldn’t pay? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The only workingmen they saw were the drug dealers who were up early to meet their sales quotas, wore the latest gym shoes, and got the girls. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A poster in the room where Roberta interviewed me warns job applicants not to “waste your time or ours” if you’ve taken drugs within the last six weeks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The lazy Susan in the center held a strange combination of items—a number of prescription drugs, a set of binoculars on top of a bird guide, and an animal bone. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z They dated off and on for several weeks before Mena realized, I presume, that Oslo Fouke was nothing more than a drug addict and a bum. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “Ha. Those dentist drugs are slowing you down.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z It has made the roundup of millions of Americans for nonviolent drug offenses relatively easy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "I have the right to check the personal property of any of the detainees. How do I know there aren't drugs or weapons in there? He stole a car, too! I've got witnesses!" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z People have either been locked up or are on the streets dealing drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z This fact was no deterrent to Reagan, for the drug war from the outset had little to do with public concern about drugs and much to do with public concern about race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes I thought he was a bad person who did drugs, drank all the time, and stayed home doing nothing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He just manages a smile before the drugs pull him back under. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Six: I bought my drugs from a jittery, bug-eyed typesetter whose brittle, prematurely white hair was permed in such a way that I couldn't look at her without thinking of a late-season dandelion. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Cheetah raised his arm to hit her again, but he was clumsy from the drugs and booze. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z One of the suspects called a notorious drug dealer to offer him a chance to buy some stolen watches. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The story was about how she got hooked on drugs when she was in college. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Relatively little organized opposition to the drug war currently exists, and any dramatic effort to scale back the war may be publicly condemned as “soft” on crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I hear you, but Khalil didn’t have to sell drugs,” I say. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Different drugs use different mechanisms to trigger increased levels of dopamine. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “You could be at a school that has a drug dog and smells like mold.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes there are no drugs available to stave off infection, but Carlos was lucky. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z His father had been murdered before he was born, and his mother had died of a drug overdose when he was a year old. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z So the merchers had tried the drug on a Healer instead. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The drugs became scarce, which prompted state correctional authorities to obtain them illegally, without complying with FDA rules that regulate the interstate sale and transfer of drugs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Under the new law, drug busts motivated by the desire to seize cash, cars, homes, and other property are still perfectly legal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His parents were abusive and had drug addiction problems, so he was in and out of foster care, but he was living with his mother at the time of the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z So he told her he’d filled the prescription and was taking the drugs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Janis had died of a drug overdose over forty years ago. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Tony is supposed to be on home detention for a drug conviction, and Wesley is still on probation for drug charges from a few years ago—” “I know what they were on probation for, Officer.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Enough to befuddle him,” Liddy added, “make him appear a near burnt-out drug case.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “He didn’t used to. He used to be different. Before all the drugs and before my mom died.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Other people say, But he was selling drugs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Soon thereafter Waterman ran for the local school board on a platform promoting unrestricted sex for students and the legalization of hallucinogenic drugs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z While Roche, the manufacturer, claimed they discontinued the drug due to the patent expiring, some believe it was the bevy of lawsuits linked to the medication. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He mediated arguments among neighborhood gangs, led vigils against drug dealing, and gave rousing sermons every Sunday. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She had a new husband who sometimes needed pushing; Danny was still hovering out there; and Michael, his own drug use intensifying, was becoming a bigger challenge in her life, a wild card. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “So why did we have to be drugged?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The elimination of judicial discretion through mandatory sentencing laws has forced judges to impose sentences for drug crimes that are often longer than those imposed for violent crimes in many countries around the world. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They didn’t know how bad my drug and alcohol use had gotten. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The second one was doing a lot of drugs to keep her weight down. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z When people think about crime, especially drug crime, they do not think about suburban housewives violating laws regulating prescription drugs or white frat boys using ecstasy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In fact, studies suggest that white professionals may be the most likely of any group to have engaged in illegal drug activity in their lifetime, yet they are the least likely to be made criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Outsiders had brought drugs to the camp to sell them to young men. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Her worry sometimes tipped over into a deeper anxiety that triggered an old temptation: drugs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Strangely enough, my religious friends were the ones who were either doing all the drugs or having all the sex in high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There weren’t heavy drugs and crime like there is now. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ratignolles lived at no great distance from Edna’s home, on the corner of a side street, where Monsieur Ratignolle owned and conducted a drug store which enjoyed a steady and prosperous trade. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z The KGB didn't believe him, but even under the influence of drugs, Gordievsky had somehow kept the truth from his interrogators. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She made lists of questions for me and printed articles about research done on people without their knowledge or consent—from a vaccine trial in Uganda to the testing of drugs on U.S. troops. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z What gets a steer from 80 to 1,100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous amounts of corn, food supplements, and drugs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “This is Portland. You’re lucky if a drug overdose gets you into the ER,” Adam replies. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been vaccinated against B, and he didn’t do drugs, so that ruled out C. Type A was usually caused by drinking contaminated water or eating tainted food. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And they show that the use of certain kinds of interactive media stimulate neurological patterns similar to those produced by the use of addictive drugs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There were no signs of poverty, no signs of homelessness, no signs of drug abuse, no signs of the social fissures that were tearing apart America’s urban centers to the east and west. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point, he sent the boys out to buy more drugs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They bombarded them with drugs, hoping to find one that would kill malignant cells without destroying normal ones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Once they drugged women, induced labor, cut them open, sewed them up. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z On the bright side, I passed the drug test. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “That you sell drugs, and that’s why Long and Tate went after you.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z These stories generally relied on news sources associated with the drug treatment industry, such as rehabilitation clinics, and emphasized the possibility of recovery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In his drugged condition his legs buckled under him. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew that drug lords could be just as dangerous as the rumrunning gangsters had been—and just as ingenious with their ciphers and codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “We knew the Keepers were trafficking drugs, but we had no legal way to get a search warrant until Ton-Ton told us what he saw at the Keepers’ compound.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked as if she was on some sort of drug, which was beginning to be a possibility, then. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A survey was conducted in 1995 asking the following question: “Would you close your eyes for a second, envision a drug user, and describe that person to me?” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A person with active TB harbors hundreds of millions of bacilli in his lungs, enough to ensure that a small number will be mutant germs that aren’t stopped by anti-TB drugs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “They thought she had drugs on her,” Sister Daniels says before I can say a word. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z They must have loaded up all the drug dealers to take downtown. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, harsh mandatory minimum sentences for people convicted of drug offenses have been consistently upheld by the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I don't think my mom knew about his recreational drug use, or she wouldn't have urged me to take a leap of faith and ask him out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The truth, however, is that rates and patterns of drug crime do not explain the glaring racial disparities in our criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was nothing left of him but the pain and the drug. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Working across international lines was not always easy, but a case involving drugs was nothing new for Elizebeth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I had asked her; we were having the drug conversation in a playground. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He found that the peasants’ vocabulary didn’t even have a word for illicit drugs, which almost no one could afford anyway. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He had to remind himself that any interference—even trying to say that her wine had been drugged—might result in her disqualification. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I tried to not think about losing Frieda and why she went telling everyone about Big Ma knocking on her door crying and Uncle Darnell being sick from drugs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The moment I took my first burning snootful, I understood that this was the drug for me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It does appear as if I could smuggle drugs or a small town away in my shirt. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The DEA has offered free training, intelligence, and technical support to state highway patrol agencies that are willing to commit their officers to highway drug interdiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Was he—none of the daughters really believed this, but to contemplate it was a wonderful little explosion in their heads—was he maybe dealing drugs or doing abortions in his office? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But maybe that was the drugs doing their thing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I pressed the drug into their gooey center and then gave the morsel to Songololo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I hate that he sells drugs that make people die. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It was his way of coping, just dealing with the realities, and the drugs helped to ease him through the days. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We were unhappy because we needed our guns and drugs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z About the gangs, and the drugs, and the police, and the violence. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z After all, where do whites get their illegal drugs? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Izzy claimed that drugs and alcohol were for losers and that we could have more fun hanging out in her bedroom and watching reruns of The X-Files, but I knew she was full of it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z We believe, although we will not say so explicitly, in prescription drugs and the cocktail hour. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Wilson spent five days in the hospital before heading home on many of the same high-priced drugs that Miele would be taking and under similar instructions to change his diet and exercise regularly. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z If the first round of antibiotics didn’t cure a patient, a retreatment with the same drugs, plus one, was prescribed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And she discovered that what she had foolishly thought of as his typical low-level recreational drug use was really something much worse. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The officer had been dressed like an undercover drug dealer. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Hence the perceived need for repressive management and intrusive measures like drug and personality testing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Local papers had painted Walter as a dangerous drug dealer who had possibly murdered several innocent teenagers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The tide of drugs was matched by a tide of guns. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In 1987, when media hysteria regarding black drug crime was at fever pitch and the evening news was saturated with images of black men shackled in courtrooms, the Supreme Court ruled in McCleskey v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There were no drugs, no alcohol, not even tobacco. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Humans drugged out of their minds on faerie fruit. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He gave Nadia the drugged treats and told her that they were a gift from Dr. Knapp, who was Ginger's veterinarian. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The media bonanza inspired by the administration’s campaign solidified in the public imagination the image of the black drug criminal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I did not say he’s a drug dealer.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Didn’t he just say something about no drug being as good as that donut. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Karhidish psychologists, though lacking mindspeech and thus like, blind surgeons, were ingenious with drugs, hypnosis, spotshock, cryonic touch, and various mental therapies; I asked if these two psychopaths could not be cured. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Or imagine a woman struggling with drug addiction, unable to obtain treatment, and desperate for money so she can feed her habit. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The people who would line up around the corner for drugs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z There have been some disorganized patches in her life—an out-of-wedlock child, a problem with alcohol and drugs—but that’s all over now that she has given her life to Christ. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mummy promises coffee to help me stay awake while the drugs are in my system. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I busied myself with drugs and cleaning my gun. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z So there were indeed some drug dealers who could afford to live large—or, in the case of the gang’s board of directors, extremely large. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Maybe it was her drinking, maybe it was her drugs . The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z |
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