With all the steamy twists and turns in the story and the intriguing storyline it kept me engrossed throughout. Morris H, Wild TC, Giovannoni M, Haines-Saah R, Koziel J, Schulz P, Bwala H, Kunyk D, Bubela T, Hyshka E.

S. popular and political cultures as well as medicine and are reliably and imperceptibly reproduced in U. This geographic coding was reinforced by the anglo-American surnames of the addicted people described, as well as physical descriptors that further identified the protagonists as white. Law enforcement officials said local heroin traffickers have been responsible for much violence here but could not say how much.

This supply side tactic, while not directly criminalizing users, ultimately is aimed at cutting off a user's supply of medication and may well be fueling the transition from prescription opioids to heroin that is now well documented ( Dasgupta et al. They noted that “the contemporary drug war promulgates a profoundly racist illusion that represents white illicit drug abuse as a private health problem and black illicit drug abuse as a public ‘criminal’ activity” ( Steiner and Argothy 2001: p.

T]he drug is being transported by street gangs and drug trafficking organizations along the interstate system from Chicago. On the one hand, media accounts have reified the notion that white and black drug use are different and separate – humanizing white drug users while perpetuating the association between black and Latino drug use, crime and violence. In this way, media coverage of the suburban and rural opioid “epidemic” of the 2000s helped to draw a symbolic, and then a legal, distinction between (urban) heroin addiction and (suburban and rural) prescription opioid addiction (even after its progression to heroin addiction) that is reminiscent of the legal distinction between crack cocaine and powder cocaine of the 1980s-90s ( Felner 2009).The 55-year-old had denied three voyeurism charges between 2008 and 2014 in relation to two female patients and more than 300 pictures but jurors convicted him after a trial last month. While such overtly racist media accounts are rare, we argue that today's media stories about drugs users employ “colorblind” racism buoyed by white privilege that is equally potent. Methamphetamine has been constructed as a white drug used in poor rural communities, one that denotes declining white status and cultural anxieties about white social position ( Murkawa 2011; Linnemann and Wall 2013; Garriott 2011, 2013; Linnemann and Kurtz 2104). In this paper we characterize the emergence in popular media of a “new face of addiction” that racially code the crisis of prescription opioid addiction and resultant heroin addiction as white.

A content analysis of 100 popular press articles from 2001 and 2011 in which half describe heroin users and half describe prescription opioid users revealed a consistent contrast between criminalized urban black and Latino heroin injectors with sympathetic portrayals of suburban white prescription opioid users. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The community-based interventions of From Punishment to Public Health and their NGO partners have helped to redress the effects of unequal drug law enforcement, and their direct testimony to policy makers has supported reform of drug laws themselves as a central to racial justice, civil rights, and health itself. During his trial, jurors heard that when police examined his laptop, they found 19,000 images of women, “some clothed and others in various states of undress”, which were “apparently taken in the surgery environment”. And the fact that drug use is now happening in white communities (or so we are told) is precisely what is newsworthy.The problem being described here is the breakdown of the segregation between white, supposedly drug-free, non-violent communities and black and Latino supposedly drug-filled, violent communities. Given these numbers, if our enforcement policies were applied proportionally, we would expect to see a greater jail and prison population of whites illegally using prescription drugs than we do. New York doctors wrongly caught up in overzealous law enforcement efforts can lose years of work and their livelihoods.