When Addiction Has a White Face

Crack Hit America and Civilization Fell

White heroin addicts get overdose treatment, rehabilitation and reincorporation, a system that will be there for them again and again and again. Black drug users got jail cells and “Just Say No.”

Ekow N. Yankah is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.

 

When Addiction Has a White Face