Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland and David Hertzberg: Opioid overdoses reached record highs in the past couple years. They say media attention to the crisis seems to have peaked maybe half a decade ago. It was all coded language for the shock and surprise that affluent white people were dying of overdose at record rates,. And it was a gendered phenomenon," they say.
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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