Race to the Morgue –
December 9, 2018 – Drugs called “medicines” were used by the “kinds of people” that reformers liked — “white people of respectable means,” Herzberg explained. “Drugs that weren’t medicines were ones used by immigrants or African-Americans.” As a result, “medicines” received less scrutiny and regulation than other drugs because they were thought to be used by “trustworthy” people, he said. Ironically, that evolved into the U.S. opioid crisis when highly addictive “medicines” went mainstream. ‘The pharma industry … put enormous money behind the people pushing for’ opioid prescriptions…
