Whiteout
A Thriller

This is a pretty solid attempt to reframe conversations around overdose and addiction away from techbocracy abd abstract nations of universal biologic and brain disease and add historical, economic, and racial context. Many of these points have been made before, but having it all in one place is use......more

An excellent reframing of the opioid crisis in the context of the system of Whiteness in the US. The book considers how political constructions of “white innocence,” the criminalization of Black and Latinx people who use drugs, and the racial imaginaries of pharmaceutical drug marketers shape drug p......more

I feel it is only fair to admit that I can't give a completely unbiased review of this book, because I appear in the book several times. I appear in the acknowledgements as someone who helped shape the development of this text, in the conclusion as an activist pointed out for doing "good work," and......more

As an addict in recovery and a practitioner in the field of addiction for over 20 years, this book hits deep. Many of us become counselors and therapists because we want to give back, and never bother to interrogate the policies and systems that we work under. Ultimately, many of us become complacen......more

More academic than it needed to be, which was occaisionally tough, but it could have been worse and I appreciated all of the research the authors conducted. I feel much more well versed in how companies market drugs, how the medical system treats addiction, how the public(s) thinks about drugs and d......more