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Racial Double Standards in the Opioid Crisis
from Freedom and Fentanyl · #64
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3 minTim and Ray discuss how heroin is treated with compassion now that it affects white suburban kids, contrasting it with the criminalization of crack, and referencing the movie Traffic's message about drugs only mattering once they hit your own family.
- 19:30Tim wishes for a more compassionate society that treated drug users as victims rather than criminals.
- 19:57His friend's daughter is on heroin, stole from him, held a knife to his throat—but the suggestion is a halfway house and hiking.
- 20:11If drugs don't affect you personally, it's hard to care about the war on them.
- 20:28Tim references the movie Traffic and its premise about fighting a war on drugs when the victims are your own family.
- 21:05People treat meth as something happening on a different planet, disconnected from their own world.
- 21:22Heroin is now a suburban white kid problem, so suddenly everyone is paying attention to it.
- 21:32Tim knows kids who snort heroin and ended up fine after a couple rough years.