In Dear Momma Motherhood and a Hood’s Mother there was a distinction that during the 1980s “crack cocaine was a force that shaped black society” and even in 2008 there still issue on whether crack cocaine is still a driving force within the black community. Now I am not racist and I do not believe that one drug is specially made for black or whites. However, the media does have a tendency to discriminate which race does what drug. From the media I have heard that crack cocaine is a black drug because it is cheaper and easier to make. It is also believed that crack is dirtier because it is made in the dealer’s kitchen and there is no control on whether there are any dangerous particles in the drug. Another way that crack would shape black society is that so many children are removed from their mothers because of drug abuse. There is even a special name that society has given to baby who are born addicted to crack and that is “crack babies”. Even though cocaine has the same effect on the fetus as crack we still refer to the babies as crack babies and not coke babies. There is one thing that I never understood was that people think that there is a big distinction between crack and cocaine when there is not. Both crack and coke are made the same way and yet coke seems to be more acceptable. During the nineteen hundreds they actually used to put cocaine in Coke a Cola and it was commonly prescribed by doctors. With a history of being prescribed by doctors it is believed that cocaine is cleaner and it also tends to be more expensive than crack. Back in Cleveland I have a couple of friends who used cocaine for only superficial reasons. One of my friends started using cocaine so that she could stay awake for a long period of time. The other reason she kept using cocaine was because it would cause her to lose an extreme amount of weight in a short amount of time. While another friend, who works at National City, uses cocaine because his fellow colleges use it as well and he would rather use cocaine because he can afford it and he feels more sophisticated. The other reason is that cocaine stays in your system for a very short amount of time so he would be able to pass a drug test every time.

Even though all types of addiction should be taken seriously, in this country when individuals claim that they have a sex addiction they are laughed at. “Sexual addiction is a hidden addiction” and it is because it is harder to identify. When an individual is an alcoholic or a drug addict you can see it, but with a sexual addiction it will be behind closed doors where people cannot see. I’m not going to lie when I first heard that men who admit that they are sex addicts I thought that it was a joke. From an early age I always know that men were addicted to sex because they think about sex over 50 times a day. Although when if women say that they are sex addicts it is unusual because women are not supposed to be sexual creators. Women are believed not to want sex as often as men. Which is not true at all. All the produces that are out are guided for both sexes, so that they both can experience pleasure. Just like it was discussed in class just like any other addiction process has to get progressively worse from an added stimulus. There is still a lot that we do not know about sex addiction but once society accepts that men and women can be addicted to sex they can get the proper help.

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