The Wire Goes To College
May, 2010
THE DRUG WAR IS WAY MORE COMPLICATED THAN ITS DEPICTEDThe Wire is a popular and critically acclaimed television show that depends on an image of the inner city as the center for the consumption and distribution of drugs. But statistics portray inner-city retail drug operations and consumption as a minor part of the drug war, with most drug consumption and sales happening elsewhere. Once in a while you'll read a story aboutheroin epidemics in the suburbs of Philadelphia, cheese heroin overdose...
