War on Drugs in short
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• The Term “War on Drugs” was coined during the Presidency of Richard Nixon
Introduction
• Who was the “War on Drugs” against?
• Who were the victims of this war?
• What should I know as a survivor?
Laws regarding Crack & Cocaine
were disproportionate
*100:1 Ratio*
Minorities & Women were the most incarcerated
populations of this war
Penalties included lose of the following:
VotingProperty
Financial Aid
Is It Over?
Fair Sentencing Act
2010
War on Drugs
Public Health Issue
Release Programs
for Drug Offenders
Amount spent annually in the U.S.
on the war on drugs: More than $51,000,000,000
Number of people arrested in 2011 in
the U.S. on nonviolent drug
charges: 1.53 million
Statistics show African Americans as 14% of the drug using population but 37% of the drug arrested
offenders
Number of Americans
incarcerated in 2009 in federal, state and local
prisons and jails: 2,424,279 or 1 in every 99.1 adults,
the highest incarceration rate
in the world
Number of students who have
lost federal financial aid
eligibility because of a drug
conviction: 200,000+