sact: In the us, helping is seen as an additional weakness. You can't do public health if you despise people,. And yes, there's a racially and also class stratified component to this. But it's like in the us. If you need help, then you're so weak as to be useless as to be completely inhuman.
In this News Brief, we are joined by friend of the show Zachary A. Siegel to discuss the extremely effective, extremely racist rightwing outrage over drug kits and how the Democrats refusing to defend the policy on its merits sets back harm reduction efforts.