Word: appalachia
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...into the black market, whether through pharmacy and warehouse theft, Internet sales or the scamming of legitimate doctors. When OxyContin, a time-release version of the opioid oxycodone, was introduced in 1995, drug addicts learned to grind up the pills to get a quick, intense high; in pockets of Appalachia, Maine and Ohio, OxyContin became the drug of choice. Meanwhile, celebrity abusers--including Rush Limbaugh and Courtney Love--sparked a flurry of publicity, leading politicians to push for a crackdown on what was being called an epidemic of prescription-drug abuse...
Growing up in Appalachia in the 1950s, Brent Kennedy always believed that he was of English and Scotch-Irish descent, just like everyone he knew in his hometown of Wise, Va. But when he saw the film Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, he noticed that his family looked more like the Arabs in the movie than the British. Kennedy had inherited his father's light blue eyes, but he had his mother's black hair and in the summer would get a deep tan. He had heard a story about his great-grandfather being barred from voting in the early...
...Smith has reason to fear. Her new novel follows such a bell ringer, a haunting and resonant story of Appalachia called Oral History (1983). Family Linen uses the same narrative technique: members of a troubled clan are revealed directly to the reader, one by one, in contrasting chapters...
...from a class-based party system, in which the working and middle class would unite to defend the New Deal and defeat rich Republicans. Even 20 years ago, who would have believed that Democratic candidates can now regularly count on winning Beverly Hills, while Republicans are a lock in Appalachia...
...Columbus Dispatch found that of ballots cast in a typical Ohio precinct during the 2000 presidential election, only a sliver—less than two percent—did not have a vote for president recorded on them. But in poorer areas like Ohio’s Appalachia region, presidential votes are much less likely to be recorded; and in predominantly black precincts, presidential votes went uncounted at nearly three times that rate. No one knows why, or seems even vaguely interested in finding an answer...