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The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid
crisis. Â In the past two decades, media images of the
surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded.
But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing
overdoses were “deaths of despair” signaling deeper
socioeconomic anguish in white communities. Whiteout makes the
counterintuitive case that the opioid crisis was the product of
white racial privilege as well as despair. Â Anchored by
interviews, data, and riveting firsthand narratives from three
leading experts—an addiction psychiatrist, a policy advocate, and
a drug historian—Whiteout reveals how a century of structural
racism in drug policy, and in profit-oriented medical industries
led to mass white overdose deaths. The authors implicate racially
segregated health care systems, the racial assumptions of addiction
scientists, and relaxed regulation of pharmaceutical marketing to
white consumers. Whiteout is an unflinching account of how racial
capitalism is toxic for all Americans.
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