By comparison with the African American population, the non-Hispanic white population is experiencing more deaths from

a. hypertension and kidney disease.
b. diabetes and stroke.
c. suicide and Parkinson’s disease.
d. heart disease and cancer.


Answer: c

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a. Whites are more likely to have used every illegal drug except heroin b. Whites are more likely to be arrested and imprisoned for drugs at rates many times their share of the population c. The rate of drug arrests among minorities during the 1980s remained flat, while for whites it doubled d. Among youths, white drug arrest rates doubled while those for blacks declined

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