White Out How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioid Addiction

White out how racial capitalism changed the color of opioids in America with its authors Helena Hanson Jules Netherland and David Hertzberg. The book shows that it was American capitalism in its illusory promises of whiteness that not only decisively shaped this reaction to the opioid crisis But that actually made the epidemic begin. It all they write quote drew on a century old system of narcotic segregation in the US in which some drugs become illegal through association with non-white users while other drugs are deemed medicines reserved for white and middle-class consumers. That system has rendered poor people vulnerable to criminalization incarceration and second-class medical care but at the same time ironically and horribly left white middle-class