The Opioid Epidemic and US Culture: Expression, Art, and Politics in an Age of Addiction

Introduction: The Opioid Crisis and Expressive Culture / Travis D. Stimeling -- Part I. On the Outside Looking In: The Opioid Crisis from Without -- 1. "Something Too Pure/Is Killing Us": Opioid-Addiction Porn, Endurance, and the Neoliberal Appropriation of Resilience / Jordan Lovejoy -- 2. "Snort Pills on My Head": The Visual Rhetoric of Addiction, Abjection, and White Trash in The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia / Christopher Garland -- 3. The Pill: Aesthetics, Addiction, and Gender in Jennifer Weiner's All Fall Down / Ashleigh Hardin -- 4. Prince, Tom Petty, and Pain: Projections of Authenticity in Popular Music / Leigh H. Edwards -- 5. "Maybe If I'd Stayed": Appalachian Outmigration and Narratives of Loss in Nate May's Dust in the Bottomland / Travis D. Stimeling -- Part II. If You Lived Here: Representing the Opioid Epidemic from Within -- 6. Pretty Lil Azzie / Crystal Good -- 7. The Way the World Is: From Maggie Boylan / Michael Henson -- 8. Finding Maggie Boylan / Michael Henson -- 9. You Talkin' about Me? Turning the Blood of Appalachia's Opioid Epidemic into Ink / Jacqueline Yahn -- 10. Remediating the Opioid Crisis in Museums / Ethan Sharp -- 11. A Hole Is Not a Void: Extraction, Addiction, and Aesthetics / Jonas N. T. Becker -- 12. Narrative Engagement with the Opioid Epidemic: From Personal Story to Personal Reflection / Amanda M. Caleb and Susan McDonald -- 13. Recovering from Addiction in Sobriety: Narrating Disability/Mental Illness through the Medium of Comic Art / Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad -- 14. "Hey, Let's Have a Very Good Time": The Opioid Aesthetics of Post-Verbal Rap / Austin T. Richey -- Part III. New Day Dawning: Recovery, Sobriety, and Post-Opioid Futures -- 15. Queer Addiction and Queer Harm Reduction in Appalachia / Gina Mamone -- 16. Healing Open Wounds / Chelsea Jack -- 17. Pain Is One Dance Partner: Move with It / Anne Lloyd Willett -- 18. Images of Opioid Addiction, Recovery, and Privilege in Mainstream Hip Hop / Paige Zalman -- 19. The Voices of Hope-A Recovery Community Choir: Redefining Self, Community, and Success / Natalie Shaffer.