In the article “Heroin in the Heartland” by Bill Whitaker describes the heroin scare that is occurring through the United States. What is interesting in this article is the emphasis on “heartland” or Midwestern towns far away from the “inner cities” where drugs are expected to be. In the article,” Crack in Context”, by Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine it states, “Drug Scares typically link a scapegoated substance to a troubled subordinate group-Working class immigrants, racial or ethnic minorities, rebellious youth” (1). That was the case for Crack, and Marijuana as the article further states on the propaganda that it, “made Mexicans in particular violent” (7). In the case of Heroin, the users are average people, who live in middle class
