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2020
Author Jack Shuler is a truly remarkable social historian, one who has turned his finely tuned attention to previous topics including a history of the noose, the Stono Slave rebellion in the British colony of South Carolina, and the lives of contemporary Americans in Appalachia. In THIS IS OHIO, Shuler investigates his own home and its place as a quintessential examples of the roads into-and perhaps out of-the Opioid Crisis.
Sam Quinones's Dreamland and Beth Macy's Dopesick focus solely on Big Pharma and its relationship to the opioid crisis. Shuler's book is the next part of that story and will examine this issue as a human rights problem, fostered by poverty, inadequate healthcare, criminalization and stigmatization of addicts at the expense of robust, holistic rehabilitation. He also looks at how grassroots organizing - often led by former addicts and former homeless individuals using data informed by a burgeoning understanding of communal/community trauma- is empowering communities.
This book and its topic are urgently needed, both in the build-up to the 2020 US election and also for the work to be done when the election news-cycle finally quiets down. In 2016, not enough attention was paid to post-industrial towns whose populations live on the margins-and Trump's election surprised the media and many others. Shuler's THIS IS OHIO puts a human face on and names the human cost of the crisis
In October 2019, three major drug distributors and an opioid manufacturer (McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen, which distribute about 90 percent of all the medicines to pharmacies, hospitals and clinics in the United States) reached a $260 million settlement with just two Ohio counties to avoid the first landmark federal opioid trial that was just days away from beginning
Ohio could thus become a model for settlement of thousands of similar cases brought in an attempt to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable for an epidemic of addiction that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans
This is a book that will speak also to organizers, nonprofit leaders/staff/volunteers, as well as to politically engaged voters who perhaps don't think about the crisis in these terms or who perhaps see overdoses as separate issues from the ones they're working on. Shuler wants to make the important connections to bring together the people working on issues of homelessness, poverty, access to health care, police violence, first responder trauma, gentrification, and to draw a throughline between all of these struggles straight to the opioid crisis and its possible solutions
The book is stark and unflinching, but also personal, intimately and respectfully reported, and ultimately hopeful. Because as Shuler notes, "this crisis is more than just policy failure, it is a failure of imagination. And yet, there are people imagining other possible worlds, doing the work to address this crisis." These people are often presenting common-place solutions that are being undermined by infuriatingly political, partisan reasons
Author lives in small-town Ohio near Columbus
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