Prescription Opioid Resiliency and Vulnerability: A Mixed-Methods Comparative Case Study

Despite declines in prescription opioid overdoses, rural areas continue to have higher prescription opioid overdose rates than urban areas. We aim to understand high overdose places were resilient to the prescription opioid overdose crisis (better than predicted), while others were vulnerable (worse...

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Autor principal: Hochstetler, Andrew (Autor)
Otros Autores: Peters, David J. ; Monnat, Shannon M.
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2022
En: American journal of criminal justice
Año: 2022, Volumen: 47, Número: 4, Páginas: 651-671
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Community resiliency
Prescription opioid overdose
Rural
mixed methods
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Sumario:Despite declines in prescription opioid overdoses, rural areas continue to have higher prescription opioid overdose rates than urban areas. We aim to understand high overdose places were resilient to the prescription opioid overdose crisis (better than predicted), while others were vulnerable (worse than predicted). First, we predicted prescription opioid overdose mortality in 2016-18 for N = 2,013 non-metropolitan counties using multivariable regression accounting. Second, we constructed a resiliency-vulnerability typology using observed, predicted, and residual values from the regression. Third, we selected a high-overdose resilient and vulnerable community for case study analysis using interviews, focus groups, and observations. High-overdose resilient and vulnerable places had disability-dispensing-overdose pathways, legacies of mining, and polysubstance drug abuse. Resilient places were larger population micropolitans with extensive health and social services, norms of redemption and acceptance of addiction, and community-wide mobilization of public and non-profit resources. Vulnerable places were smaller, more remote, lacked services, and stigmatized addiction.
ISSN:1936-1351
DOI:10.1007/s12103-022-09701-9