RX Appalachia

RX Appalachia Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781642592283
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Weight: 499g
Height: 203mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 19mm