Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis
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The Racism of Drug Dealers
There's this racialized bifurcation of sympathetic and unsympathetic drug users. And then there's this other thing going on, which is the drug dealer. We need to stop treating what are social problems as criminal problems. The idea that we're going to solve the problem of drug use and addiction through criminal justice interventions is one that has failed this country for decades.
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