“Opioid Storytelling: Rehabilitating a White Disability Nationalism” argues that stories of the opioid crisis disseminate an emerging white disability nationalism that functions to morph and reconsolidate the “machinery of whiteness” around an affectively charged disability politics. Through a close reading of HBO's 2017 documentary Warning: This Drug May Kill You, directed by Perri Peltz, as well as Beth Macy's New York Times best book of 2018, Dopesick, this essay contends that opioid storytelling redeploys a panic about lost agency and increased vulnerabilities into a melancholic reinvestment in a fantasy ideal of white immunity nationalism. Opioid storytelling's “relapsed” whiteness, which invokes a long history of fears about racial degeneration, restores whiteness's category crisis by presenting middle-class whites as abled disableds, or dopesick addicts, in contrast to an unredeemable noncompliant blackness, and, in doing so, resolves the contradictions within conservative neoliberal discourses between sympathetic addicts and a simultaneous insistence on individual accountability and family values. Opioid storytelling reveals not only a contemporary morphing of a complex history of race and public health, but offers new identifications for “fragile” white subjects to reinvest in intractable hierarchies of white supremacism, while simultaneously thinking of themselves as liberal antiracists.

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阿片类药物讲故事：恢复白人残疾民族主义

“阿片类药物讲故事：恢复白人残疾民族主义”认为，阿片类药物危机的故事传播了一种新兴的白人残疾民族主义，其作用是围绕充满情感的残疾政治改变和重新巩固“白人机器”。通过仔细阅读 HBO 2017 年的纪录片警告：这种药物可能会杀死你, 由 P​​erri Peltz 和 Beth Macy's 执导纽约时报2018年最好的书，嗜药症，这篇文章认为，阿片类药物讲故事重新部署了对失去代理的恐慌，并增加了对白人免疫民族主义幻想理想的忧郁再投资的脆弱性。阿片类药物讲故事的“复发”白人，引发了长期以来对种族退化的恐惧，通过将中产阶级白人呈现为有能力的残疾人或吸毒成瘾者，与不可挽回的不合规黑人形成对比，恢复了白人的类别危机，并且，这样做，解决了保守的新自由主义话语中同情的瘾君子与同时坚持个人责任和家庭价值观之间的矛盾。阿片类药物的故事不仅揭示了种族和公共卫生复杂历史的当代演变，