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Unlike previous drug epidemics in the U.S.

, which have primarily affected


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.

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