And the “same policies” are still in force in the inner cities and there are different policies in the burbs in rural America.
This isn't one of those cases. Minorities being prosecuted for using prescribed opioids isn't exactly what is happening en masse here.
Not that I am saying that I have ever gotten a racist vibe where I live, but let’s just say that every place we go in our part of metro Atlanta, we stand out.
Every study shows that most Blacks live in a majority minority neighborhood.
Basically I’m just not having that particular conversation with you because thats not what this thread is about, and its clear you only want to derail into your writing prompt. The irony isn't lost on anyone, lots of people have seen the Dave Chapelle "Sticks and Stones" standup.
The structure of this crisis is prescribed drugs. So consumers of any color wont go to jail, and big pharma execs wont go to jail. Perhaps some particularly excessive doctors will, and feel free to make a statistical analysis of their ethnicity and socioeconomic status to find a correlation that matches your distress.
People using unprescribed and scheduled opioids still face law enforcement pressure.