American Drug Story How Racialized Media Depictions of Drug Crises Shape Policy Agendas

abstract: I explore the relationship between social constructions of target audiences and the impact of these constructions on policy outcomes in the context of two drug crises: the crack epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s and the opioid crisis that began in the first decade of the 2000s. Using a conte...

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Other Authors: McCubbins, Amanda Rose (Author)
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57402