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The Dig: Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis

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The Pharma Critique of the Overdose Crisis

White families who are aggressively marketed to it's very appealing and convenient, but it's a matter of the greed. Our pharmaceutical companies deeply entrenched in a whole system of racial capitalism that rests on whiteness when it comes to consumer markets. We would need to take on head-on, you know, there's just no other way of improving our health statistics Statistics just even leaving overdose deaths aside There's so many other causes of death that are linked to our utterly toxic racial capitalist system.

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