This episode is the first of two that focuses on the treatment and sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine use and the opioid epidemic. The War on Drugs is a calculated racist political tool. Crack didn’t just appear in Black communities...it came from somewhere.
In part 1, Dani and Nwayieze’s conversations with Jack Brown and Susan Burton, mental health advocates who experienced the war on drugs. They talk about their childhood and upbringing, encounters with drug use, and how access to mental health education and care could have made a difference.