
The Dig: Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis
Jacobin Radio
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Anxiety and Opioid Prescribing
In the mid 1990s, it wasn't just opioid prescribing that shot through the roof. benzodiazepines which are sedatives like like Xanax, Klonopin Ambien and also amphetamine and amphetamine like drugs prescribed for ADHD in the US. Each one had their own distinctive story of why white people were especially suffering from the the illness that those drugs treated with the benzos with like Xanax Anxiety has long been associated under a variety of different names with white middle-class Americans because of a stereotype that they have this complex Interiority That causes them to ruminate on things and produce these complex fears And so as a matter of fact there's this contrast between people who experience
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