Suburban Opioid and Heroin Use (SMA) - Lamonica

Suburban Opioid and Heroin Use (SMA) 

CHAIR: LAMONICA, Aukje (S CT State U) LAMONICA, Aukje (S CT State U) The Gendered Experiences of Opioid and Heroin Users in the Suburbs: A Qualitative Investigation CONROY, Britt and LAMONICA, Aukje (S CT State U) Intergenerational Drug Use and the Effect on Family Dynamics and Relationships BOERI, Miriam (Bentley U) The Road to Suboxone: The Social, Economic, and Political Entanglement in Contemporary Drug Treatment ANKRAH, Josephine (S CT State U) Treatment Expectations of Current Opioid Users

 

ABSTRACT:

LAMONICA, Aukje (S CT State U) Suburban Opioid and Heroin Use. The current opioid crisis is like no other experienced in recent history. Unlike previous cohorts of heroin users, the majority of new opioid users are White, middle class, and live in nonurban areas. There is a lack of research on drug user populations in suburban communities. In this session, we present data from a grant funded ethnographic study focusing on opioid and/or heroin users living in suburban communities of Boston, MA, New Haven, CT, and Atlanta, GA. The four papers focus on intergenerational drug use, gendered experiences of drug use, harm reduction efforts, and treatment experiences. 

 

Session took place at the Society for Applied Anthropology • 78th Annual Meeting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 3-7, 2018