How White Users Made Heroin a Public Health Problem Written Assignment

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“How White Users Made Heroin a Public-Health Problem” (95 words)
In this paper, Cohen (2018) examines the issue of drug abuse in the lenses of racial division.
While heroine abuse has been prominent in the United States for quite some time, the increased
addiction among the whites made it to be classified as a public health problem. On the other side,
Cohen (2018) says that when the blacks were addicted to the substance, it was not seen as a
public health issue. Thus, the classification of heroine as a public health problem as a result of
increased white use is an indication of structural racism.
“The New Jim Crow” (99 words)
The Jim Crow rules were the face of racial discrimination in the United States. These laws
enhanced the separate treatment of different racial groups. While racial discrimination is illegal
in the country, there are practices which demonstrate that Jim Crow still exists in the country.
Alexander (2018) indicates that mass incarceration which targeted specific racial groups is an
indication that Jim Crow still exists in the country. For instance, the f...


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