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Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel

Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. An opioid

crisis is killing huge numbers of Americans and the white face of this crisis has produced a notable amount of empathetic

commentary from the very political establishment that was happy to criminalize and demean black drug users in the past.

But in reality the government's approach has not changed very much at all.

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drug war. Yet policy makers continue to tout the same law enforcement-led drug war as the leading

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