The 21st century opioid crisis is America's third pharmaceutical addiction crisis. Each crisis has come as a surprise because it was presumed that middle class white people would not become addicted to a medication prescribed by their doctor and yet they did. The system of narcotic segregation in the U.S. in which some drugs become illegal through association with non-white users magnified those individual risks into this continuing crisis.

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