Congress has gone to great lengths to make sure that there are alternative ways to help rehabilitate these addicts, so they do not face the same punishment related to crack cocaine use offenses. The sentencing for crack cocaine was and still is that much more severe than the punishment for illicit use of prescription opioids. But it hasn’t been made clear why? The number of deaths related to crack use is minuscule compare that of opioids.
With attention to the case of Stephanie Nodd, a black female who served 21 years in a Florida federal prison for conspiracy to distribute eight kilos of crack in the early 1990s. She was eligible to have 10 years taken off her 30-year sentence and was released from prison. (Hartley & Miller. 2010). Secondly