RX Appalachia Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky

Author: Hagendorf, Col

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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.

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Publisher Name	Haymarket Books
Author Name	Hagendorf, Col
Format	Audio
Bisac Subject Major	SOC
Language	NG
Isbn 10	1642592285
Isbn 13	9781642592283
Target Age Group	min:NA, max:NA
Dimensions	00.85" H x 00.05" L x 51.00" W
Page Count	278

Author Details

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.

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