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Ahead of the early 1900s, the primary trouble due to cocaine use was portrayed by newspapers to get addiction, not violence or criminal offense, as well as the cocaine consumer was represented being an upper or Center class White human being. In 1914, The New York Times posted an report titled "Negro Cocaine 'Fiends' Can be a New Southern Menace",