ERIC Number: ED283115
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 255
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The Crack Cocaine Crisis. Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session (July 15, 1986).
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families.
This document contains witness testimonies and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine what the federal government as well as local and state governments are doing and can do to respond to the growing problem of crack cocaine, and what prevention and treatment approaches are effective. Opening statements and/or prepared statements emphasizing the seriousness of the crack cocaine problem are included from Representatives George Miller, Charles Rangel, Benjamin Gilman, Dan Coats, Peter Rodino, Hamilton Fish, Walter Fauntroy, Michael Oxley, William Hughes, Mel Levine, Patricia Schroeder, and Lawrence Coughlin. Witnesses providing testimony include: (1) Kevin Grevey, former Washington Bullets Basketball Team player and president of Off Season, Incorporated; (2) William Scheu, player-coach, USA Legends Basketball Team and director, Youth Sports Drug Awareness Program; (3) Lee Ann Bonanno, a recovering crack user; (4) Janet Bonanno, Lee Ann's mother; (5) Jerome Jaffe, director, Addiction Research Center, National Institute on Drug Abuse; (6) David Westrate, Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Department of Justice; (7) Isaac Fullwood, Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department; (8) Wilhelmina Holliday, New York City Police Department; (9) Joel Gilliam, Detroit Police Department, (10) Father Coleman Costello, Outreach Project, Rego Park, New York; (11) John French, New Jersey State Department of Health; and (12) Malcolm Lawrence, former Special Assistant for International Narcotics Matters, United States Department of State. (NB)
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Federal Regulation, Government Role, Hearings, Illegal Drug Use, Prevention, Private Agencies, Program Effectiveness, State Action
Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.
Publication Type: Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families.
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