The North American Opioid Epidemic

Pages: 45 - 75
Published: Jan 1, 2020
Abstract
In this chapter I tell a story about the opioid epidemic in North America. The cultural neuromatrix framework implicates a wider set of actors in the propagation of the epidemic. Rather than just blame bad pharma and its compliant regulators, this chapter offers an alternative explanation for the epidemic. In this chapter it is the shapeshifting quality of pain as a commodity that enables a networked affective economy to thrive. Affective...
Paper Details
Title
The North American Opioid Epidemic
Published Date
Jan 1, 2020
Journal
Pages
45 - 75
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