HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Morphine, Ibuprofen, Racialization
13 Jan 2019
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Lecture 7: narcotics racialization and spatialization: narcotic medical term for a class of drugs and term for all illegal drugs. It is undermining our boyhood and cutting away the moral fibre of our girls. Increased costs and decreased access those addicted begin to look elsewhere. Does this blame or imply moral problems: pushing the susceptibility argument, does not relieve blame from addicts. In canada, made illegal in 1923 without any debate: emily murphy, first female magistrate in canada (1920s): Blacks and orientals using drugs to seduce white women and enslave white race. African americans: however, users had a very widespread background, 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder. Linked to lack of jobs available or circumstances: different narratives are used when we talk about drug use, matt lassiter: public health campaigns for suburban kids, militarized punishment for urban kids, ex. Plano, texas: invasion of inner city: group of white high school kids overdosed, and distribution was controlled by.
