RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky (Paperback)

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RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky (Paperback)

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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.
Lesly-Marie Buer is an activist and public health practitioner at Positively Living/Choice Health Network in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her work on substance use and harm reduction has appeared insuch publications as Boston Review, the Journal of Appalachian Studies, and North American Dialogue.
Product Details ISBN: 9781642591231
ISBN-10: 1642591238
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication Date: May 12th, 2020
Pages: 220
Language: English