I am aware that white people are also susceptible to addiction. But they’re not as susceptible. Their world isn’t as stress-inducing. The myriad things to get addicted to aren’t as easily found where they live, aren’t as prominently advertised, and the resources to overcome those sicknesses aren’t as hard to find. And when addiction does cripple white communities, as it has with the opioid epidemic, they don’t get America’s fire and fury, as black neighborhoods devastated by crack did. They get pillows and twenty-three-minute-long Nightline profiles.
