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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Deconstructing toxic narratives
    sub title: data, disparities, and a new path forward in the opioid crisis
  name:
    name part: Webster, Lynn R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Eichberg, Sarah
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 230 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
  abstract: This book reframes the opioid crisis as far more than a story of reckless prescribing or pharmaceutical misconduct. It uncovers the deeper socioeconomic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped one of the most devastating public health emergencies in modern U.S. history. Through clear analysis and compelling evidence, it challenges readers to reconsider what they think they know-and why conventional narratives fall short. Moving seamlessly across disciplines, the book draws from econometrics, qualitative fieldwork, spatial modeling, and socioecological theory to illuminate the structural and place-based contexts in which addiction takes root. It exposes how declining economic opportunity, eroding social cohesion, regulatory contradictions, and distorted media portrayals have interacted to produce widespread vulnerability. Each chapter reveals overlooked mechanisms, from the consequences of free‑market healthcare to the lived experiences of stigma, trauma, and marginalization. Offering more than critique, the book charts a path forward. Through case studies, innovative prevention frameworks, and community‑centered solutions, it outlines a prevention approach focused on addressing root causes rather than symptoms. The result is a vital, multidimensional resource for policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and anyone seeking a deeper, more actionable understanding of the opioid crisis and the systemic change required to end it.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Competing Narratives -- Reporting Data on Drug Overdose -- COVID-19 and the Opioid Epidemic -- Opioids and Social Determinants of Health -- Models of Addiction -- Free-Market Capitalism and the Opioid Crisis -- Medicalization, Criminalization, and Contradictions -- Econometric Studies -- Place-Based and Contextual Factors -- Errors in Fentanyl and Media Reporting -- Mapping the Risk Environment: Socioeconomic Dimensions of the Crisis -- Risk and Resilience: The Social Ecology of Addiction -- Upstream Determinants of Opioid Risk: Trauma, Stigma, and Social Capital in the Risk Environment Qualitative Literature -- Transformational Solutions and Global Lessons -- Evolving Toward a Structural Paradigm: Prevention 2.0 -- Appendix A - Summary of Findings from Econometric Studies -- Appendix B - Summary of Spatial Analysis Research Results -- Appendix C - Summary of Qualitative Studies on Risk Environment.
  note: Lynn R. Webster, Sarah Eichberg.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Opioid abuse
    geographic: United States
  classification: HV5822.O45 W43 2026
  classification: 362.29/30973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Deconstructing Toxic Narratives
    name:
      name part: Webster, Lynn R.
    origin info:
      publisher: Cham : Springer,c2026
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1578141906
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Medicine
  identifier: 9783032231352 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3032231353
  identifier: 9783032231345
  identifier: 9783032231369
  identifier: 9783032231376
  identifier: 3032231345
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 260618
    record change date: 20260808204622.4
    record identifier: in00005790443
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng