The Politics of Pain

Oxycontin marketing capitalized on a concept of pain in the u.s that had already been racialized for centuries. How did it become integrated into American medicine and how did this racist ideology not only lead To the longtime mistreatment of black patients, but also in this case Set up white people for the opioid overdose crisis? "There are very deep roots to this belief that kind of They sustain our Enterprise to this very day"