Individuals with cocaine use disorder show greater biological aging in a key area of the brain, findings from a novel study of postmortem brain tissue suggest.
league s greatest franchises. but not even two full days after that draft, a single 9-1-1 call change both sports and american history. at the age of 22, len bias died of a horrid heart attack caused by a cocaine overdose. it is one of the saddest what ifs in sports history, but len bias s death sparked change, both good and bad for the country. he died at a time when america was headed into the war on drugs. crack cocaine was all over the news, time magazine labeled at the issue of the year. bias, through his drug related death, became a symbol of the dangers of drug use and a catalyst for new drug laws. later that year, ronald reagan signed the anti drug abuse act, which introduced a whole host of narcotics laws, including mandatory sentence for drugs like crack and marijuana. the law created mandatory sentences that disproportionately sent black people to jail and bolstered