The opioid epidemic has primarily impacted impoverished middle class populations like the working poor and unemployed, as well as the white working class in rural areas, unlike previous drug crises that mostly affected urban, racialized groups. A 2018 graph from the NSDUH shows the opioid crisis has principally affected these social and economic categories of people.
The opioid epidemic has primarily impacted impoverished middle class populations like the working poor and unemployed, as well as the white working class in rural areas, unlike previous drug crises that mostly affected urban, racialized groups. A 2018 graph from the NSDUH shows the opioid crisis has principally affected these social and economic categories of people.
The opioid epidemic has primarily impacted impoverished middle class populations like the working poor and unemployed, as well as the white working class in rural areas, unlike previous drug crises that mostly affected urban, racialized groups. A 2018 graph from the NSDUH shows the opioid crisis has principally affected these social and economic categories of people.
urban, racialized, and precarious populations (such as crack cocaine in the 1990s), the opioid epidemic has primarily affected the impoverished middle classes (working poor or unemployed) and the white working class in rural areas, as said in document A, a graph about the categories of people who are most affected by an Opioid Use Disorder, made by the NSDUH in 2018.