1980s lifestyle, crime, drugs, and AIDs
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1980s lifestyle, crime, drugs, and AIDs
1980s Fashion
- Cosby sweaters were popping!
- This is the time where flaming was very popular.
- Weird Fro's and Mullets were very common.
- Osh Kosh were particularly popular in the 80s, including overalls and jean shirts and stuff.
- Converse Chuck Taylors were also very prominent in this time.
Photo by Miss Morice
Drug Use was very open and heavy
Most of these drugs were new, so they were experimenting.
Photo by Jonah G.S.
The Crack Epidemic
- In 1984 through the 90s people who admitted to using crack, jumped up from 4.2 million, to 5.8 million!
- 1986 crack was only available in 27 states, in 1987 it jumped to all but 4 states
Photo by auweia
The Crack Epidemic
- Crack came to US by the help of the US!
- America wanted land in Nicaragua, so the CIA helped distribute crack to various cities for use of the land in Nicaragua.
- Huge mistake by the US.
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Huge increase of crime rate in the 1980s
- Crime had reached it's pinnacle in the 1980s, since then the U.S. has dropped severely
- Cities that had the highest crime rates, also had considerably high amount of crack sales.
- The Miami Riots, a cop killed an innocent, people went WILD!
Photo by seagers
1980s lifestyle, crime, drugs, and AIDs
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