Thursday, February 16, 2012

Black Entertainers and Drug Abuse: What Could Be Responsible?

King And Queen Of Pop: Gone Too Soon

"Are blacks (African Americans) genetically predisposed to addiction to narcotics? How is that once they start taking drugs, it spirals out of control- while many White celebs are still able to do drugs and "function."?"
Well, before  Whitney Houston, the last major celebrity to die from crack addiction was  Amy Winehouse.
 Unless my memory fails me, I do not believe that she was black.
And then there are others -such as Anna Nicole Smith, Marilyn Monroe, John Belushi, Elvis Presley, and many other white celebrities who died from some form of drug addiction or the other. So if there is a racial basis for drug addition, the evidence has so far been carefully hidden.
Moving on ..
If you travel to economically depressed cities with mostly white populations, you will find a major addiction to CRACK. Sure, crack addiction has also devastated black neighborhoods, but there are HUNDREDS of mostly-white communities in North America where crack addiction is also epidemic.
So the big factor underlying crack addiction is  NOT racial. It is Economic.  Simply put, crack is the poor man's cocaine.  If a cocaid drug user is rich, she will likely do cocaine. If she is poor, she will have no choice but crack. People like Whitney  Houston and Amy Winehouse who are rich (?) and also on crack are exceptions to the rule, and rich folks like that probably got into the crack habit from hanging out with ghetto company.
Moving on …
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