Deflecting a “crisis”: the opioid epidemic in Appalachia as state violence

Drug overdoses are the number one preventable death in the United States. In 2022, over 109,000 people died as a result of a drug overdose. The rise in drug overdose deaths has corresponded with the US government’s neoliberal turn, which refuses to intervene in markets, expands the security state, a...

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1. VerfasserIn: Pitman, Brian (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Young, Stephen T.
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2023
In: Contemporary justice review
Jahr: 2023, Band: 26, Heft: 3, Seiten: 225-249
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