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Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis

The Dig

The Dual Track System of the Opioid Crisis

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It took white middle class people becoming the face of the opioid crisis to bring buprenorphine about. The authorities built this huge system assuming that this was going to be this incredibly dangerous thing to do, she says. "You're letting people into white markets who you are presumptively criminal and so all of these protections built around it just show that this one little move that doesn't fit into the system"

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