Even the Prozac era involved selling SSRIs by redefining what we, I'm a psychiatrist, so I can speak as a wee. It's not a new strategy, but it's kind of remarkably creative when you trace the history of the new class of opioids that were sold in the 90s moving forward. The creativity involved is the pseudo-addiction diagnosis that could be applied to these quote-unquote trustworthy white patients.
Featuring Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg on how American capitalism and its illusions of whiteness both created the opioid crisis and shaped the response to it. We are discussing their book Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America.
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