Meet the scientists building a library of designer drugs.
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Nationwide drop in violent crimes due to plummeting price of cocaine
Drop in price of cocaine as violent crimes drop.
A radical transformation in major American cities began in the mid-1990’s. A turn around of years of high Years of high violent crime rates, thefts, robberies, and inner-city decay suddenlybegan. Crime rates began to fall faster than they went up. This trend appeared in practically every post-industrial American city, simultaneously.
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The Unintended Casualties of the War on Drugs
A nurse makes her morning rounds distributing medication to patients.
Roland Lorenz has surgical screws in his back and neck and a pin in his upper leg, and when his pain reared up one recent weekend, he knew he needed something strong. He had just been to a pain clinic, where the doctor ordered an increase in his dosage of Percocet, a narcotic.
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