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Donna Murch is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.
The success of OxyContin hinged on racially bifurcated understandings of addiction. The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine, after all, has always been the race and class of users.
Donna Murch
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This is a powerful alternative to the myth of post-racialism.
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