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“Both crack-cocaine and methamphetamine use are criminalized… In the … case of opioid misuse, political and media campaigns often disseminate messages that, in spite of their conventional lifestyles, White, middle-class persons have fallen prey to addictive substances."
Criminalization and Drug “Wars” or Medicalization and Health “Epidemics”: How Race, Class, and Neoliberal Politics Influence Drug Laws
Critical Criminology
Vol. 27 Issue 2, pp. 305–327,
2019
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