Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis
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The Politics of Pain
OxyContin marketing capitalized on the concept of pain in the US that had already been racialized for centuries. "The very understanding of human capacity to suffer pain has long been deeply shaped by racism," she says. There's a reason why most academic medical centers leading, you know, research, medical research centers are located in poor black and brown neighborhoods.
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