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Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis

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The Complexity of the Pharma Critique

The author says pharmaceutical companies are deeply entrenched in a system of racial capitalism that rests on whiteness. The U.S. spends almost 20% of its GDP on healthcare, which is way above any other country and our health outcomes are the worst among industrialized countries," she said. "There's just no other way of improving our health statistics"

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