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The History of Methadone
In 1971, methadone was the major weapon in President Nixon's war on drugs. Methadone has this very long and kind of sorted history with a lot of interconnections with race politics. And to this day, if you talk to people about what's their image of a methadone patient, it's most likely going to be a black and brown poor person.