I. Summary of thesis and literatureIn our contemporary society, the media constantly bombards us with horror stories about drugs like crack. From them, and probably from no other source, we learn that crack is in all cases immediately addictive, causes corruption, crazy violence and almost always leads to death. The government tells us that we are busy waging a war on drugs and thus gives us various role models to despise and hate: we learn to stereotype inner-city minorities as drug-infested wastelands and we learn to " drive out drug addicts” from within our own communities, convinced that they represent moral sin and pure evil. I believe these titles and ideals are absurd and based entirely on unnecessary, even harmful, ideals promoted by the government to achieve goals other than those they claim. In the article by Craig Renarman and Harry Levine entitled "The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in America's Latest Drug Scare", the authors attempt to expose and address some of the societal problems associated with the over-hype of crack as a drug. "epidemic problem" in our country Without distracting from the serious health risks of the few people who use this drug, Renarman and Levine demonstrate how little harm the current "epidemic" is at the beginning of the article. , the authors summarize the evolving history of crack cocaine in the United States. They specifically discuss how the crack-related deaths of two star athletes brought attention to the problem in the mid-1980s. the government allegedly used crack as a political scapegoat for many substances In conclusion, we should allow drugs like crack to receive the attention they deserve as social problems, but not receive more. than that!.V. ReferencesD'Angelo, Ed. (1994, September). The moral culture of drug prohibition. Humanist., 54, p. 3. Dorfman, Lori-Wallack, Lawrence. (1993, November). Health of advertising: arguments in favor of counter-advertising. Public Health Reports., 108, p. 716. Johnson, Bruce-Golub, Andrew et al. (1995, July). Careers in crack cocaine, drug use, drug distribution, and non-drug crime., Crime & Delinquency, 41, p. 275.Perrine, Daniel. (1994, October 15). Platform Zero's view: how Holland deals with its drug problem. America., 171, p. 9. Renarman, Craig and Levine, Harry G. The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in America's Latest Drug Scare, *From Montclair State Univ. Library