@article{ref1,
title="Policing pain: a qualitative study of non-criminal justice approaches to managing opioid overdose during the COVID-19 pandemic",
journal="Journal of prevention and intervention in the community",
year="2021",
author="Trappen, Sandra L. and McLean, Katherine J.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Opioid related drug overdose deaths are a leading cause of death and injury in the United States. While research demonstrates that where people live has a major impact on drug use and abuse, most work looks at social dynamics at the county level or under the rubric of the urban/rural divide. Only recently, scholarship has become attuned to the post-industrialized areas located on the fringes of urban cores. Data presented in here are from field research conducted in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a small river town located east of Pittsburgh. Once a thriving industrial city, it is now deteriorated and has documented high levels of overdose experience. Preliminary results suggest that McKeesport residents, even before the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), practice social and physical distancing as a way of life; data indicate how the pandemic potentially exacerbates the risk of accidental opioid overdose among a population defined by both geographic and social isolation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1085-2352",
doi="10.1080/10852352.2021.1908206",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2021.1908206"
}