Overdose Awareness Day: How Drug Overdoses and White Supremacy Are Linked in the U.S.

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August 31, 2020
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Teen Vogue
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George Fisher was quoted by Teen Vogue in “Overdose Awareness Day: How Drug Overdoses and White Supremacy Are Linked in the U.S.”

As noted by Stanford law professor George Fisher, a subsequent Idaho law went even further, punishing only whites who visited or kept opium dens and leaving others alone, an assumption that white people’s health and welfare was of primary concern.

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