Feb. 2, 018 – I rejoice in the progress being made in Philadelphia’s response to drug addiction, but it’s nonetheless bittersweet. As I witness the growing compassion for the mostly white victims of opioids, I still mourn the deaths of thousands of Black and brown people from crack overdoses and the survivors who remain behind bars serving unfair sentences on nonviolent drug charges. If only they had had a safe site and a local government who empathized with them — imagine how Philadelphia might have turned out. We cannot change the past, but we can vow to right its wrongs.
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