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.
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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