Whiteness, Scapegoating, and Scarcity: Medicalizing ‘the US Opioid Crisis’
This paper characterizes the successful civil lawsuits brought by sub-national units of government in the US against multinational pharmaceutical companies to recover the costs of public expenditures (goods and services) incurred as they attempt to manage the ‘opioid crisis,’ as a scapegoating strat...
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| Language: | English |
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LSE Press
2020-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of Illicit Economies and Development |
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| Online Access: | https://jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/62 |