Social_Inequality_Essay_OM.docx SOC-220 Social Inequality Addiction can discriminate,

Social_Inequality_Essay_OM.docx    SOC-220  Social Inequality  Addiction can discriminate, it especially hits harder to those who are already down or who are experiencing a downfall. Addiction can affect the poor in more disastrous ways than the rich. With lack of money and health care, someone who is not wealthy may have a harder time becoming rehabilitated. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, crack cocaine became prevalent within the black communities, was said to be a great threat to the white middle class, this wasn™t the case (Szalacitz, nd). While white youth took plenty of cocaine, addictions rates did not skyrocket because if they became hooked, they had a higher chance of recovering. Americas inner cities are inundated with problems that are interrelated in complex ways. œThese intersecting macro-level social forces, such as poverty, race, family structure, and neighborhood characteristics, ultimately constrain the life choices of those living in the inner city irrespective of personal traits, individual motivations or private achievements. (Dunlap, Johnson, Fackler, nd)Many inner-cityhouseholds are distressed by unemployment, lack of education, family dissolution, overcrowded housing, drug abuse and crime. On a micro-level inequality within drug abuse stems from poverty, which is higher in American than in any other country. A high proportion of workers are in poorly paid full-time jobs, with no way out of poverty. Most turn to drugs in order to deal with the hardship that they face. œThis causes t