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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815170103321

Autore

Sullivan Amy C.

Titolo

Opioid reckoning : love, loss, and redemption in the rehab state / / Amy C. Sullivan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2021

©2017

ISBN

1-5179-1467-1

1-4529-6254-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

362.2930973

Soggetti

Opioid abuse - United States

Electronic books.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: opioids, oral history, and the rehab state -- 1. Mothering addiction: lessons in trauma parenting -- 2. Prognosis cloudy: who's to blame for an overdose? -- 3. Prescription for humility: opioids and addiction medicine -- 4. Women of substance: harm reduction in Minnesota -- 5. Dissecting stigma: treatment reimagined -- Conclusion: My son, relapsed and recovered -- About the Minnesota Opioid Project.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic.