Overview
Goode and Ben-Yehuda go through a number of drug panics since the 1930s. What seems to be a common thread through these panics?
What was the earliest drug legislation and who was it targeted at?
Patricia Morgan examines one of the earliest moral panics about drugs that was all about Chinese immigrants. What was the social and political context for this scare, according to Morgan? And what was the ideological effect of this moral panic about opium? Were Chinese the only opium users and how were they treated?
Santoro & Santoro explain the racial difference between African Americans and Whites with changing medical views of drug abuse as well as marketing strategies of pharmaceutical companies. What is this change about and how does it perpetuate racial inequalities? Do you see any parallels to the opium scare of the late 19th century in this sense?
Netherland and Hansen contrast the media coverage of opioid users with that of black and brown heroin users. In which ways are the representations different?
How does Fentanyl panic resemble or depart from the other drug panics according to the assigned article?
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