It's not race. It's how the addiction started. There is sympathy for people who started because a highly-educated and trusted professional made a prescription o

It's not race. It's how the addiction started. There is sympathy for people who started because a highly-educated and trusted professional made a prescription of an FDA-approved medicine to treat a severe injury. There is much less sympathy for somebody who started because they illegally got a substance for recreational purposes from a criminal. That is a world of difference, and race doesn't even come into the picture. TL;DR is that "my bone is sticking out of my leg" is different from "let's get fucked up".