The History of Opioid Addiction

There's been this long parade of pharmaceutical companies Introducing the next miracle opioid and saying this one is not addictive. To sell oxycontin in a certain way was to sell whiteness itself like to sell the idea that white patients were somehow Less vulnerable because of having perhaps less innate flaws. The story about how pain came to be one of these One of these sold sicknesses comes from the brilliant work of Keith Whelou a historian of medicine who wrote pain in political history.