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Citing a recent increase in laws aimed at women who use drugs like oxycontin and heroin during pregnancy, and low rumblings of hysteria over its impact on their infants, these pieces suggested compassion over criminalization and avoidance of the kind of moral panic that birthed the 1980s crack babies myth. “It was so easy, with the flimsiest of evidence, to paint a generation of black newborns as outlaws-in-waiting.”Īs recently as two years ago, as America’s policymakers and public officials were coming to fully understand the “opiate epidemic”-meaning exactly who and where is being hardest hit- several editorials cautioned against demonizing opioid-addicted mothers.
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This article previously appeared in Alternet. Today, most new drug addicts are white, and “we have not witnessed the pervasive vilification or scaremongering of drug-addicted mothers and their babies that we saw during the crack-baby era, which helped drive the anti-black sentiment at the heart of issues from welfare reform to mass incarceration.” The Massive Discrepancies Between Media Coverage of Mythical Crack Babies and Opiate-Dependent Babies by Kali Holloway
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Three decades ago, hysteria about “crack-babies” helped launch another wave of racial vilification and oppression.
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