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Re:As Heroin Use by Whites Soars, Parents Urge Gentler Drug War by tonomics on Friday October 30, 2015 @01:27PM (#10479169)
I don't understand the need to use the word 'Whites'.

Heroin has spiked and whites correspond to ~70-80% of the population, so obviously there will be many white addicts.

The 'Drug War' exists to fight heroin usage overall; it's not targeted at a race.

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Re:As Heroin Use by Whites Soars, Parents Urge Gentler Drug War by task_queue on Friday October 30, 2015 @03:22PM (#10479950)
Because heroin sale and use was mostly confined to poor and minority communities. Now a different population is consuming them that happens to be white and suburbanite.
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