Why Problems of Appalachia’s essence have systemic roots

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The Appalachian region is famous for its beauty and desert. The forests and mountains are romantic as being avoiding the noise of the modern world. Therefore, his breathtaking landscapes and strange village communities attract tourists from all over the world. Indeed, the National Park of the National Park, which is the nation, which is the most visited the nation and is one of the oldest foggy mountains, which is nesting along the border separating Tennessee and North Carolina.

But there is another side, one is less beautiful. These outsiders announce the Pristine glory of Appalachian Mountainscape are rarely in line with the same positive ideas.

On the contrary, Appalachian local residents, the descendants of the first realistic pioneers of America, are often subject to stereotypes that are immortalized in the region. It is ignorant, poor and ignored as drunk and drugable. In their suffering, they are like the recent judges of their destiny and the recent culprits in the fate of their children and grandchildren.

But as all stereotypes, these narratives present a partial and highly distorted version of the truth. The real agents of the guilty in this crooked version of reality are resolving their responsibilities. The sinful parties create their absolutical stories.

The story of a dependency in Appalachia is such a narrative of fault change. The reality is that in the contrary to the stereotype, the Appalachian peoples are not more common than other regional, cultural, ethnic or socio-economic demographics.

The region adds deep, complex and multifaceted roots. A system of a system that will be solved only through comprehensive interventions.

Poverty and “diseases of despair”

The Appalachian region is not only known for its beauty, but also for great natural resources. The region has strengthened independent wealth for centuries until the prolific reserves of coal, wood and natural gas from fertile arable land.

However, as much as it was, this was the headquarters in the fields of the Great City, which received the share of Aslan benefits. In Appalachia, poverty helped not to enter the disproportionate degrees of children and children without quality health and uninsurized and unused children in the region.

Appalachia, for example, the number of adults under the age of 65, the number of adults, affordable care (ACA), under 65 years of insured, the number of adults under the age is significantly more. In high poverty areas, low-income workers could not often afford ACA rewards, but they are not available for Medicaid or other benefits.

Along with the lack of sufficient health coverage, the Appalachian region is also characterized by the shortcomings of medical staff. The mental health service, including the rehabilitation services, is especially missing. Indeed, the number of mental health providers is more than 35% of the national average in many parts of the region.

In addition, the generation rose to the epidemic of the so-called “hopeless diseases”, along with the inability of poverty, affordable doctors and mental health work. This includes many high risk for not only suicide rates, but also for substance disorders.

As victims with alcohol and drugs, the original catalyst (poverty, health, poverty, etc.) also provokes a generation that continues when it is. And thus alcohol and drug diseases have not been treated and children grow in a house in a house grandparents, parents or siblings. A family inheritance is born of addiction.

Addiction economy

In contrast to the stereotype, neither addiction nor addiction do not distinguish the features of the Appalachian people. Farming, especially tobacco farming and coal cultural, main industrial and stable work, one of the most sources of work, was one of several sources in the region. This is a hard-working, dangerous and backward work.

These areas are a deep tool in many parts of the region, although the economy is a vital part of the economy, in residents, communities and environment. For example, coal is a cultural, very profitable industry, but the effects of public and environmental health are often destructive.

Work-related injuries and diseases are very common in the Appalachian region, in a reality exploited by the drug industry. The origin of the opioid epidemic can be pushed by Big Pharma to increase opioid medicinal recipes for the treatment of chronic pain by Appalachia and the great pharma.

The region, the dependence of drugs and the deadly potential, evidenced (and frequent hidden) water was flooded with Opioids. Government rules appeared too late to root the tidal of dependence and opened an endemic to the opioid addiction area.

The inheritance of the great tobacco

Coal cultural is not the only industry that Appalachia is known. Farming also plays a key role in the history of the region. Historically, one of the most important plants in the region is tobacco.

Especially the spread of tobacco in the economy and culture of Southern Appalachia caused the generations of smokers and snuff users. From chewing tobacco to smoking, tobacco products remain in many parts of Appalachia.

However, smoking and increased stigmatization of cigarettes, and a large number of smokers, such as smoking assistance, applied. This transition is mainly based on the wrong and dependent features of the primary and e-cigarettes are based on incorrect and non-dependent properties.

Electronic cigarettes asked to reduce the use of mounting evidence, government regulators, more severe taxes, advertising and composition. In response, consumers are cheaper and return to the black market for cheaper and more affordable e-cigarettes in their desired flavors. This is only aggravating the risks of Cibeng, because unregulated e-cigarettes are reduced by potentially fatal substances purchased on the Internet.

Takeaway

The story of a dependency in Appalachia is more complicated than the stereotype confession. Is a widespread disorder with deep, systematic roots. This is a nation, a pandemic that we face economic, political, medical and cultural catalysts that govern it.