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Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis

The Dig

The Color of Opioid Overdoses in America

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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.

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