This talk will speak to a larger debate about the current opioid crisis and its relationship to the successive wars on drugs in the United States. Core to my approach is thinking about racial capitalism as a critical framework for understanding both the deregulation of Big Pharma and our ongoing punishment campaigns about drugs and gangs.

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