Tiger1
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The 12-year study highlights the incongruence between drug use and incarceration rates along racial lines.
"Our findings add to the growing debate on how the war on drugs has affected African Americans," said Teplin. "We found that African Americans are less likely than other racial/ethnic groups to abuse hard drugs. Yet African Americans are disproportionately incarcerated for drug crimes."
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/stere...youth-are-more-likely-blacks-abuse-hard-drugs
"Our findings add to the growing debate on how the war on drugs has affected African Americans," said Teplin. "We found that African Americans are less likely than other racial/ethnic groups to abuse hard drugs. Yet African Americans are disproportionately incarcerated for drug crimes."
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/stere...youth-are-more-likely-blacks-abuse-hard-drugs