Date
Spring 2017
Document Type
Poster Session
Department
Social Work
Advisor
Professor Paula Gerstenblatt
Second Advisor
Caroline Shanti
Abstract
How is race used as a tool in newspaper publications to shape public opinion of the heroin epidemic in Portland, Maine, between the years 2014-‐2016?
How does the portrayal of the heroin user inform public policy and health care interventions?
Start Date
April 2017
Recommended Citation
Pogson, Ellen, "Racialization of Heroin Use and the Emergence of a Public Health Issue" (2017). Thinking Matters Symposium Archive. 101.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/thinking_matters/101
