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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Authors: Pitman, Brian (Author) ; Young, Stephen T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Contemporary justice review
Year: 2023, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 225-249
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Neoliberalism
Appalachia
Opioids
drug overdose deaths
State Violence