RX Appalachia : Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1642591238
ISBN-13
9781642591231
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Imprint
Haymarket Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 12th, 2020
Print length
220 Pages
Weight
358 grams
Dimensions
21.40 x 14.00 x 2.00 cms
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An account of radical responses to the opioid crisis facing women in Central Appalachia.
Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by documenting how women, families, and communities cope with generational systems of oppression. Prescription opioids are associated with rising rates of overdose deaths and hepatitis C and HIV infection in the US, including in rural Central Appalachia. Yet there is a dearth of studies examining rural opioid use. RX Appalachia explores the gendered inequalities that situate women’s encounters with substance abuse treatment as well as additional state interventions targeted at women who use drugs in one of the most impoverished regions in the US.
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