What is the central difference between the political responses to the crack epidemic of the 1980s and the heroin epidemic of the 21st century?
A. Medically assisted treatment for crack addiction in the 1980s was scientifically unexplored, while today the government is better equipped to respond medicinally to substance abuse in rural areas with higher access to medical care.
B. Politicians in the 1980s faced many systematic roadblocks to implementing treatments for substance abuse among minorities, while today there is an easier path to medicinal responses to drug epidemics by state and local governments.
C. Systematic responses to substance abuse in communities of color during the 1980s were focused on criminal punishment and harsh sentencing, while modern politicians implement medicinal remedies in response to widespread addiction in rural areas.
D. The overall political response to the crack epidemic of the 1980s focused on the economic burden of providing treatment to crack addicts, while modern politicians can more easily secure funding for widely available treatment of heroin addiction.
C. Systematic responses to substance abuse in communities of color during the 1980s were focused on criminal punishment and harsh sentencing, while modern politicians implement medicinal remedies in response to widespread addiction in rural areas.
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