This essay argues that race and class influence drug laws through politicized means. Crack-
cocaine and methamphetamine production, sales, and use were met with criminalizing …

Drug policy has shifted from intense criminalization toward reforms that prioritize
decarceration and treatment. Despite this shift, little is known about whether support for …

This article assesses whether the kinder, gentler rhetoric through which the
disproportionately white opiate crisis has been framed has been accompanied by changes …

Drug use is pervasive, generally private, and of long standing. The social effects are
sometimes problematic, but it is a large step to declare a war on drug use. This review …

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ABSTRACT The War on Drugs (WoD) popularized aggressive law enforcement tactics and
punitive sanctions aimed at low-level drug offenders. These punitive practices have affected …

Many analysts have argued that the most harmful forms of drug use are disproportionately
concentrated in poor communities of color, and that this pattern—combined with law …

The War on Drugs I has had a devastating effect on African American communities
nationwide. Throughout the drug war, African Americans have been disproportionately …

Abstract The War on Drugs in the United States has been part of a system of social control
targeting low‐income black and Latinx communities. While this statement has been …

While much of the social and political attention surrounding the nationwide opioid epidemic
has focused on the dramatic increase in overdose deaths among white, middle-class …