Do You Know Who's the Face of Drug Addiction?

halaamah was referencing in the Congressional records surrounding the debates around the drug addiction treatment act of 2000. The kind of language that was being used by people lobbying for the bill included things like a new kind of addict and also referring to drug users that are quote not hardcore. One of the uh, one of the racially coded languages is that Things that go wrong for white people are a social problem that can and should be addressed It's not natural. It's not inevitable; it's not just the way things are.