Catalyst - A Journal of Theory and Strategy

The approval of buprenorphine marked a an absolute sea change in the treatment of opioid addiction by allowing An opioid maintenance drug to be prescribed in a doctor's office and taken at home. There was a quote Effort to quite literally whitewash addiction and addiction treatment to replace the stigma and aggressive policing of methadone And replace it with the cleaner medicalized empathy of buPrenorphine. How has and does the methadone system operate and what is the history that has made it to function Through through what you call a clinical criminological frame In this episode we talk about how racial capitalism shaped the treatment approach to the opioids crisis.