Opioids, Unions, and the Socialist Project: Interrogating Connections, Strategizing Activism

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Opioids, Unions, and the Socialist Project

Interrogating Connections, Strategizing Activism

Honoria Guarino

Peter Ikeler

Samuel Friedman

Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time

Labor & Unions

In 2017, opioid overdoses claimed 49,068 lives in the US. This epidemic now surpasses the mortality of the HIV/AIDS crisis at its peak, annual deaths by car accident, suicide, gun violence or chronic kidney disease. Death by opioid also accounts for two thirds of all US overdose deaths, which totaled 72,000 in 2017.