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While Government Cracked Down On Illegal Drugs, Big Pharma Hooked Millions On Opioids

The racist roots of the opioid crisis.

by David Herzberg, Matthew R. Pembleton via Made By History on October 30, 2017

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A worker removes the Sackler name from a building at Tufts University in 2019.

The Problem of Pain

It’s easier to blame individuals for the opioid crisis than to attempt to diagnose and cure the ills of a society.

by Sophie Pinkham via Dissent on April 5, 2021

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Mother's Little Helper

How feminists transformed Valium from a wonder drug to a symbol of medical sexism.

via BackStory on May 20, 2016

Bleachman, a mascot created by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation as a part of a campaign directed at drug users and intended to help slow the transmission of HIV in needle-using communities, 1988.

What We Can Learn From Harm Reduction’s Defeats

The history of the movement is one of unlikely success. But what can we learn from embattled experiments like prescribed heroin?

by Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard via The Nation on February 15, 2022

How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always been the race and class of users.

by Donna Murch via Boston Review on August 27, 2019

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