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Logan Pennington

Professor Dunham

English Composition II

30 June 2019

Annotated Bibliography

My research project is over the opioid epidemic. I want to know the effects it has had on

Americans and what communities are most affected. I also want to learn how it started and

where it originated. Finally, I want to learn how it can be stopped and prevented from happening

again.

DuPont, Robert L. “A New Narrative to Understand the Opioid Epidemic.” ​Journal of Global

Drug Policy & Practice​, vol. 12, no. 1, Winter 2018, pp. 1–22. ​EBSCOhost​,

search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=i3h&AN=130405719&site=eds-live.

This article gives background on opioids and their intended uses. It contains charts and

statistics about overdose death, opioid prescriptions, and other drug use. It also talks about the

misconception surrounding addicts, overdose death, and drug supply.

This article is intended for the general public and was written to educate people on

opioids, addiction, and the epidemic. It enlightens the reader on the epidemic and shows how big

of a problem opioid use is in America. It also urges the reader to not blame the addict, but to look

into other variables such as healthcare and pharmaceutical companies.

This article was found on EBSCOhost and from ​The Journal of Global Drug Policy and

Practice. ​The author is Robert L. DuPont and he is an MD and president of The Institute of
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Behavior and Health Inc. It was written on January 1st, 2018. The credibility of the authors and

the recent time it was posted make it a reliable source.

I plan to use this article for facts on overdose death and opioid addiction. Also, the article

provides me with information on how the epidemic started which will answer one of my research

questions.

Goodnough, Abby. “This City's Overdose Deaths Have Plunged. Can Others Learn From It?”

The New York Times,​ The New York Times, 25 Nov. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/11

/25/health/opioid-overdose-deaths-dayton.html.

This news entry provides information about how Dayton has dropped its overdose death

by over 50 percent. It talks about the increase access to health care, naloxone, and support

groups. It has interviews from public officials and recovering addicts.

This article was intended for the general public. It was written to spread awareness of the

opioid epidemic and how to control it. It was made to motivate people to get active in their own

communities to try to fix the problem and support people who have been affected by the

epidemic.

This column was posted on ​New York Times​ and was written by Abby Goodnough. She is

a reporter and journalist for the ​New York Times​ and travelled to Dayton to cover this story. It

was written on November 25, 2018.

I intend to use this article to answer my question on how to stop the opioid epidemic. The

article provides information and statistics that show how Dayton has stopped and prevented

overdoses.
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Netherland, Julie, et al. “The War on Drugs That Wasn’t: Wasted Whiteness, ‘Dirty Doctors,’

and Race in Media Coverage of Prescription Opioid Misuse.” ​Culture, Medicine &

Psychiatry,​ vol. 40, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp. 664–686. ​EBSCOhost​,

doi:10.1007/s11013-016-9496-5.

This journal provides information on how the media has portrayed the opioid epidemic to

the public. Also, it shows how different communities are affected based on demographics and

who is getting the most help compared to the least help. It compares race and region to provide

answers on the best way to respond to the epidemic in certain areas.

This article was intended for the general public. It displays many statistics on how there

has been a difference in media coverage and support for communities based on region and

demographics.

The article was published on EBSCOhost and is found in the ​Culture, Medicine, and

Psychiatry j​ ournal. The two authors are Julie Netherland and Helena B. Hansen. The article was

published on June 6th, 2016. The credibility of the authors and the recent time it was posted

make it a reliable source.

I plan to use this article to provide information on different recovery plans for different

communities. This article provides me with information on what works best for different

communities, such as urban versus rural.

Penm, Jonathan, et al. “Strategies and Policies to Address the Opioid Epidemic: A Case Study of

Ohio.” ​Journal of the American Pharmacists Association​, vol. 57, no. 2, Mar. 2017, pp.

S148–S153. ​EBSCOhost​, doi:10.1016/j.japh.2017.01.001.

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This study focuses on pharmacists role in preventing the opioid epidemic. It mainly

focuses on new laws and acts put in place in Ohio that puts more restrictions on prescription

opioids. It provides facts that show how the new acts have reduced the number of opioid

prescriptions in Ohio.

The study seems to be intended for policy makers in other states. It displays the success

of Ohio’s new laws on opioids which can motivate other states to do the same.

This study was published on EBSCOhost and was found in ​The Journal of American

Pharmacists Association. ​The case study has many different authors with different

accreditations. The study was last revised in March, 2017. The credibility of the authors and the

recent time it was posted make it a reliable source.

I intend to use this study to answer my question on how the opioid epidemic can be

solved. This article gives me another way to answer my research question and provide my

readers with a more detailed answer.

Sederer, Lloyd I., and Leslie A. Marino. “Ending the Opioid Epidemic by Changing the

Culture.” ​Psychiatric Quarterly​, no. 4, 2018, p. 891. ​EBSCOhost,​

doi:10.1007/s11126-018-9589-0.

This article is about how the author thinks the first step to ending the epidemic is

changing the way we think about and respond to substance abuse disorder.

This seems to be intended for the general public and health care professionals. The author

is trying to show that it is not always the addicts fault and there are other variables involved in

their stories.
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This article was published on EBSCOhost and is in the ​Psychiatric Quarterly​ journal.

The authors are Lloyd I. Sederer (Chief Medical Officer of the New York State Office of Mental

Health) and Leslie A. Marino ( a board certified adult psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of

mood, anxiety and substance use disorders). The column was posted in 2018. The credibility of

the authors and the recent time it was posted make it a reliable source.

This article provides me with someone else’s opinion on how to end the opioid epidemic.

I will use this source to provide a more detailed answer for my research question on how to end

the opioid epidemic.

Strand, Mark A., and Heidi Eukel. “A Primary Prevention Approach to the Opioid Epidemic.”

American Journal of Public Health​, vol. 109, no. 6, June 2019, pp. 861–863. ​EBSCOhost​,

doi:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305060.

This article highlights different prevention plans that can be taken to prevent opioid use

disorder. It talks about medical screenings, education programs, and who is most susceptible to

opioid use disorder.

The article is intended for the general public as it wants to inform people about opioids

before taking them. It wants to reach as widespread as an audience as possible so it can prevent

the largest amount of new disorders.

It is written by Mark Strand (MD) and Heidi Eukel (MD) and is found in ​The American

Journal of Public Health.​ It was published on EBSCOhost in June, 2019. The credibility of the

authors and the recent time it was posted make it a reliable source.

I am going to use this article to answer my question on how the epidemic can be

prevented from happening again.

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