The Left Is Erasing Black and Brown People From the Opioid Epidemic, and Missing the Raging Drug War

Summary: Emilie Rose Hanscomeremembers the first timeher boyfriend overdosed in their bed. He was breathing strangely, keeping her awake. “I kept poking him because I was annoyed,” says Hanscome, a petite blonde. When sheflicked on the light, she found the father of her children foaming at the mouth. “Then he was almost turning gray, black,” she recalls. Paramedics got there in time and administered Narcan, the opioid antidote that reverses overdoses.