The Sector's!

For the next couple of weeks, I'm going to be on vacation with my family.

It's been a while since we've been able to take some nice, quiet time together.

So for those weeks, I'll be logging off and unplugging.

Next week, we'll be taking a full break from the show.

There won't be a new episode in the feed.

But for this week, I want to share with you an episode from our first season that aired

back in 2019.

The opioid crisis has been back in the news lately, as Purdue Pharmac faces a restructuring

in accordance with a huge-class action lawsuit they faced as a result of their aggressive

marketing of oxycontin way back in the early aughts.

But the secular family, who kicked off the whole epidemic, won't just stay out of jail.

They'll probably still be billionaires.

But the opioid epidemic wasn't the first major drug crisis to hit America.

A few decades earlier, crack cocaine hit America's streets.

The response to crack and the people America held responsible could not have been more different.

In season 1's episode, A Tale of Two Crisis, we cut deep into this dynamic, the narrative

surrounding opioids and the crack, and the way that race and poverty shaped public policy

is a result.

And today, we're airing that episode for you.

For listeners who've been with us since the start of America Dissected, you'll remember

that season 1 of our show was a bit different.

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