This is Ohio : the overdose crisis and the front lines of a new America / Jack Shuler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shuler, Jack, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opioid abuse--Ohio.

Opioid abuse.

Opioid Epidemic.

Ohio.

Medical Subjects:

Opioid Epidemic.

Ohio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 289 pages.)

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2020.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

For readers of Dopesick and Dreamland, journalist Jack Shuler explores the current addiction crisis as a human rights problem fostered by poverty and inadequate health care in this "insightful look at how the issues in Ohio affect the rest of the country" ( Cosmopolitan, A Best Nonfiction Book of the Year). Tainted drug supplies, inadequate civic responses, and prevailing negative opinions about people who use drugs, the poor, and those struggling with mental health issues lead to thousands of preventable deaths each year while politicians are slow to adopt effective policies. Putting themselves at great personal risk (and often breaking the law to do so), the brave men and women profiled in This Is Ohio are mounting a grassroots effort to combat ineffective and often incorrect ideas about addiction and instead focus on saving lives through commonsense harm reduction policies. Opioids are the current face of addiction, but as Shuler shows, the crisis in our midst is one that has long been fostered by income inequality, the loss of manufacturing jobs across the Rust Belt, and lack of access to health care. What is playing out in Ohio today isn't only about opioids, but rather a decades-long economic and sociological shift in small towns all across the United States. It's also about a larger culture of stigma at the heart of how we talk about addiction. What happens in Ohio will have ramifications felt across the nation and for decades to come.

Contents:

Part I The Heart of It All

Spring 2016-Summer 2017

1 Rusted Belts and Think Tanks p. 21

2 The Cavalry's Not Coming p. 33

3 Hope Shot p. 48

4 Semicolons p. 64

Fall 2017-Spring 2019

5 Swimming Upstream p. 73

6 Systems of Care p. 82

7 None of Us Are Bad People p. 91

8 The Churn p. 106

9 Any Positive Change p. 116

10 The Foot of the Mountain p. 125

11 The Person Next to You p. 133

12 Punk Rock Harm Reduction p. 143

13 Rainbows and Unicorns p. 150

Part 3 Nothing About Us Without Us

Spring-Summer 2019

14 Beyond Rat Park p. 167

15 Moments of Recognition p. 177

16 Corners p. 192

17 "Every Overdose Is a Policy Failure" p. 207

18 Worth Our Keep p. 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-289).

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel Bellet Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781640093560

1640093567

Publisher Number:

99985745798

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.