RX Appalachia : Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky

Name: RX Appalachia
Brand: Haymarket Books
SKU: 9781642592283
Price: 9350 KES
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ISBN: 9781642592283

by Lesly-Marie Buer

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1642592285

ISBN-13 9781642592283

Publisher Haymarket Books

Imprint Haymarket Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 12th, 2020

Weight 504 grams

Dimensions 22.30 x 14.90 x 2.60 cms

Product Classification: Regional studies Regional / International studies Poverty and precarity Housing and homelessness Health, illness or addiction: social aspects Rural communities / rural life Feminism and feminist theory Poverty & unemployment Housing & homelessness Illness & addiction: social aspects Feminism & feminist theory Rural communities Social welfare & social services Social welfare, social policy and social services

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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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