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Mason Dreischarf

Prof. Flores

English 1201 Online

14 April 2019

Annotated Bibliography

Hinders, Dana. “Understanding the Relationship Between Poverty and Addiction.” St. Joseph

Institute for Addiction, 18 June 2018, stjosephinstitute.com/understanding-the-

relationship-between-poverty-and-addiction/. Accessed 6 Apr 2019

Dana Hinders, with the St. Joseph Institute for Addiction team, discussed how addiction

and poverty are linked. Hinders mentions risk factors of poverty that may cause someone to

disorderly use drugs. Some of these factors include poverty to cause: an increase in stress and

feelings of hopeless, and a decrease in self-esteem, social support, and healthcare access. Also,

Hinders explains how addiction can result in someone to slip into poverty. This information will

be used in my research paper to talk about how people who suffer from addiction may fall into

poverty or how someone in poverty may pick up an addiction.

M, Bill. “Drug Addiction and Poverty | Understanding the Connection.” Drug Addiction

and Poverty: Understanding the Connection, Monarch Shores, 18 Sept. 2018,

www.monarchshores.com/food-for-thought/drug-addiction-and-poverty. Accessed 7 Apr

2019

Bill M, who speaks on many drug addiction and mental awareness topics, also discusses

the connection between poverty and drug addiction. Bill mentions that between 2004-2013, most
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Americans made under $49,000 and, also, there was a 50-percent increase in heroin use among

men and a 100-percent increase among women. Bill stated that many studies have shown people

who have lower income, have more of a risk to fall towards drug abuse. The article gives off

many reasons why people who have a drug addiction suffer even more so, specifically, those in

poverty, they don’t have access to rehabilitation services to recover from an addiction. Bill

suggests that one significant way to fix this problem is by more jobs so people can feel a

meaning to their own lives. I will use this information to provide additional reasons to why

people with poverty may fall to an addiction.

Nadia Kounang. "With more money spent marketing opioids, more overdose deaths followed,

study says." CNN Wire, 18 Jan. 2019. Opposing Viewpoints in Context,

http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A570075334/OVIC?u=dayt30401&sid=OVIC&xid=

d9cb8f56. Accessed 6 Apr. 2019.

A reporter from CNN, Nadia Kounang, researched how opioids are getting to patients

where most of the prescriptions are being handed out. Kounang stated there were over 70,000

deaths due to overdosing in the United States in 2017. Heroid and Fentanyl are most commonly

involved in cases of overdoses. Opioid overdose death rates were found to be much higher in

urban areas than rural. Kounang found this to make sense because the marketing for opioids is

seemingly higher around highly populated, hospitalized, areas. This source found from the

library database will be used to provide statistics of where overdosing of opioids are more

commonly found.

NIDA. "Understanding Drug Use and Addiction." National Institute on Drug Abuse, 6 Jun. 2018,
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https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/understanding-drug-use-addiction.

Accessed 14 Apr. 2019.

In this article, from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, it goes into depth on what drug

addiction really is and how people may find themselves getting caught up in it. Drug addiction is

a chronic disease of using drugs without acknowledging the dangerous consequences that may

follow. This article lists the long term affecting functions of drug addiction that include: learning

judgment, decision-making, stress, memory, and behavior. This article will help with my

research because I will be able to describe what drug addiction really is before I begin to talk

about the relationship with poverty.

Selby, W. Gardner. “Joe Deshotel Says There Is No Evidence Showing Poor People Use

Drugs More Frequently than Members of Other Socio-Economic Groups.” Politifact

Texas, 26 Nov. 2012,

www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/nov/26/joseph-joe-deshotel/joe-deshotel-says-

there-no-evidence-showing-poor-p/. Accessed 7 Apr 2019

W. Gardner Selby, a former PolitiFact Texas editor, researched the statement by Joe

Deshotel saying, “There is no evidence that poor people abuse drugs more frequently than any

other socio-economic group." Selby researched both sides that supported Deshotel and that did

not. Harold Pollack says that at about 20-percent of TANF recipients have used an illicit drug in

the past year. Selby found that from an interview with former Governor of Florida, Rick Scott,

that he mentioned studies have shown people with welfare are higher users of drugs than people

who are not. Selby concluded from all of his findings that the question is still on debate but the

statement that there is no evidence that poor people abuse drugs more so than wealthier people is
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ultimately false. This source will be used to include reasonings that socio-economic groups do

and do not correlate with drug abusers.

Szalavitz, Maia. “Addictions Are Harder to Kick When You're Poor.” The Guardian,
Guardian News and Media, 1 June 2016,
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/01/drug-addiction-income-inequality-
impacts-recovery. Accessed 7 Apr 2019
Maia Szalavitz covered addiction and neuroscience for major publications for nearly 30

years. Szalavitz says addiction does discriminate by affecting people who are down or feel like

they can’t rise. She says people who have a more stable life are less likely to get a drug addiction

than those whose lives are made of uncertainty and unemployed. In the article, it points out that

wealthier countries have fewer addiction rates. Szalavitz suggests that instead of focusing on the

lockups of dealers and outlawing chemicals to cut the drug supply that we need to, instead, focus

on finding what pushes people to want to use drugs. This article will be used to find additional

information on why it’s more likely for poor people to have a drug addiction than wealthier

people.

Yim, Martin. “Addiction and Poverty Interlinked.” The Borgen Project, 20 July 2015,
www.borgenproject.org/addiction-poverty-connected/. Accessed 7 Apr 2019
Martin Yim, with the Borgen Project, researched factors leading to drug abuse with

poverty being the major one. Yim found drug abuse factors including literacy, education,

poverty, income equality, and unemployment. Yim believes drug addiction and poverty are

interlinked, they feed off each other. They strengthen their respective feedback loops. This article

can be helpful in providing factors to people who struggle with drug abuse and how these factors

can result in poverty.