How Heroin Went From Medicine to Moral Panic: A Century of Manufactured Crisis
Heroin has been called many things: miracle medicine, demon drug, public enemy, and now, a “national emergency.” What it’s almost never called is what it actually is: a powerful opioid whose risks are massively amplified not by its chemistry, but by a century of political theater, racist panic, and weaponized morality masquerading as “public health.”…