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Jacobin Show: How Capitalism Created the Drug Crisis w/ Meagan Day

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'M a Very, Very Stubborn Form of Ecstasy'

i feel personally, like, ia, i can observe that in the entire culture. I think that there's some cas causality here. To be a party person is to be chasing oblivion,. You can hear it in the music. You can see it in the party drugs that are popular. That was the hiet you were chasing was essentially like m a very, very stupid, communal form of ecstasy. But like, that's what it felt like. That's what it was. It wasn't just an opioid user who went to parties. And that's the kind of thing that 17-year-old kids who go to parties do now.

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