Reference no: EM132788648

During your reading, students came across a section entitled "Drug Regulation in the Early Twentieth Century: The Beginning of Controls & Drug Regulation in the Late Twentieth Century: A War on Drugs" in which it explained many historic euphemisms associated with a multitude of ethnic groups in America. African Americans were associated with drug-induced rapes by way of cocaine use/abuse, Asian Americans were paired with the smoking of opium, promotion of prostitution, and gambling, and Mexican Americans were associated with marijuana use and abuse for political purposes. In 2021, do we still see this type of rhetoric being used in today's society? If so, how do we dispel racial myths and drug associations to combat the spread of fear-mongering associated with socio-economic and racial groups? Students should use outside resources such as peer-reviewed articles which can be found using the UNT Dallas Electronic Library, along with other outside resources to substantiate and validate their stance.