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Socio-historical context refers to how these texts can be understood in the context of the time and culture they were created in. This research encompasses perspectives on drugs over time, from the "War on Drugs" that primarily affected African Americans in the 1980s, to the present opioid crisis that has been portrayed as a struggle of white people, as well as how drugs have been portrayed in music and movies in different periods of American history.
Drugs in Popular Culture
"The Temptation of Drugs is a Bitch"
Michael "Flea" Balzary, Time
Guitar Masterclass.
"High Cinema: Drugs in Film Infographic"
New York Film Academy
"Hillel Slovak; Guitarist in Flamboyant Rock Band"
Los Angeles Times
Scar Tissue
Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman
Portrayal of Addiction & Drug Use Among Races
Drug Policy Alliance
"White Opioid Epidemic Highlights Black Frustration"
Kevin McKenzie, Commercial Appeal
"White Opioids: Pharmaceutical Race & the War on Drugs It Wasn't"
Julie Netherland, Helena Hansen, National Center for Biotechnology Information
James Nachtwey, Time
"When a drug epidemic’s victims are white"
German Lopez, Vox
"Re‐racialization of Addiction and the Redistribution of Blame in the White Opioid Epidemic"
Sonia Mendoza, Allyssa Stephanie Rivera, Helena Bjerring Hansen, Anthrosource
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