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This white, middle-class former heroin addict of the 1980s is outraged—outraged, I tell you. But what I’m furious about is not the supposed new class of heroin users. It’s that the media still assumes that the face of American addiction is poor and black—and that heroin ever went away: OMG! Heroin is now hitting the middle class. According to NBC News, the “New Face of Heroin Is Young, White and Suburban.” ABC News found “Heroin in Suburbia.” The Daily News headlined its story, on a new study of the demographics, “Heroin’s New Users Are Now the Suburban Kid Next Door.” Fox weighed in with “Face of Heroin Now Young, White and Suburban.” Search Google News for “new + face + heroin,” and you get 35,800 results in the past month alone.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:36:24 +0000

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