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Anne Case and Angus Deaton.

3,201 words

When Purdue Pharmaceutical introduced OxyContin, their marketing for the drug was aggressive, efficient, unscrupulous, and amoral. Resources were poured into advertising; the company spent $200 million on marketing in 2001. Sales grew from $48 million in 1996 to $1.1 billion in 2000, Read more …

Published: June 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Deaths of Despair, drug abuse, drug addiction, globalization, healthcare, Jews in medicine, mental health, Michael Walker, Middle America, North American New Right, originals, white dispossession | 1 Response

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America’s Health Fix:
Case & Deaton’s Deaths of Despair, Part I

Michael Walker

2,670 words

During the 1970s and 1980s, when libertarian ideas were in the air, Ayn Rand a fashionable writer, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had romped to power, and the Chicago Boys were invited to demonstrate the merits of free-market economics in South America, a lively debate was being pursued in libertarian circles on how far freedom can go.

Didn’t free individuals have the right to take their own lives, Read more …

Published: June 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Deaths of Despair, drug abuse, drug addiction, drugs, Jews in medicine, mental illness, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, white dispossession | 2 Responses

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Black Privilege, White Death

Giles Corey

Arthur Sackler, who brought you the “very white” oxycodone epidemic.

872 words

White America is reeling as the holocaust of opioid addiction takes its toll. Hundreds of thousands of whites have lost their lives to this epidemic – more than the United States lost in the Second World War. Indeed, each year’s deaths is roughly the equivalent of the number of Americans who were killed during the entirety of the Vietnam War. White male life expectancy has fallen for the third consecutive yea; drug overdoses and suicides are almost solely responsible for this trend.

The Opioid Crisis:
Victimizing White America with No End in Sight

Morris V. de Camp

2,891 words

Beth Macy
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018

There is a heavy price to be paid for white dispossession. During the 1970s, white “ethnics” in the North indemnified dispossession when their schools and neighborhoods were destroyed by integration. Read more …