Lesly‐Marie Buer
Biographic Data
| ID | 8925561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesly‐Marie Buer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesly‐Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Buer |
| SIGNATURE | BUER L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harm Reduction Services |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7193-7023 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
There Are No “Addicted” Babies in Appalachia
Substance use and the contexts that surround it have caused real harm in Appalachia. Part of this pain may be attributed to substance use itself, but much is also due to our collective reaction to substance use and people who use drugs. The confluence of stigmas against Appalachians, people who are poor, and people who use drugs, as well as the intense surveillance of caregivers, have produced interpersonal violence within medical, social service…
Covid‐19 and Rural Harm Reduction Challenges in the US Southern Mountains
Overdose deaths and some other consequences of substance use and its criminalization are greater in rural areas, particularly Appalachia1, 2 and other parts of the Mountain South. With health care shortages and underfunding of social services in rural areas3 and in the South predating COVID-19-related disruptions, rural Harm Reduction4 i programs are more likely to lack sufficient resources.5 A recent study6 focused on mostly urban sites in north…
Appreciating contributions more than celebrating resilience
“I'm Stuck”
This study utilizes anthropological analyses of kinship, care, gendered inequalities, and the state to examine how social networks affect women's substance use in a rural Appalachian county where the primary drug of choice is prescription opioids. Of 503 participants from a larger study of social networks among rural drug users, 16 women who reported using drugs with four or more other study participants (drug network members) were interviewed fr…
Oxyana
Book Review| April 01 2014 Oxyana Oxyana. Film, Directed by Sean Dunne. Cadillac Hash, 2013. Lesly-Marie Buer Lesly-Marie Buer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Appalachian Studies (2014) 20 (1): 89–91. https://doi.org/10.5406/jappastud.20.1.0089 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lesly-Marie Buer; Oxyana. Journal of Appalachian Studies 1 January 20…
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Oxyana
Book Review| April 01 2014 Oxyana Oxyana. Film, Directed by Sean Dunne. Cadillac Hash, 2013. Lesly-Marie Buer Lesly-Marie Buer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Appalachian Studies (2014) 20 (1): 89–91. https://doi.org/10.5406/jappastud.20.1.0089 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lesly-Marie Buer; Oxyana. Journal of Appalachian Studies 1 January 20…
“I'm Stuck”
This study utilizes anthropological analyses of kinship, care, gendered inequalities, and the state to examine how social networks affect women's substance use in a rural Appalachian county where the primary drug of choice is prescription opioids. Of 503 participants from a larger study of social networks among rural drug users, 16 women who reported using drugs with four or more other study participants (drug network members) were interviewed fr…
There Are No “Addicted” Babies in Appalachia
Substance use and the contexts that surround it have caused real harm in Appalachia. Part of this pain may be attributed to substance use itself, but much is also due to our collective reaction to substance use and people who use drugs. The confluence of stigmas against Appalachians, people who are poor, and people who use drugs, as well as the intense surveillance of caregivers, have produced interpersonal violence within medical, social service…
Covid‐19 and Rural Harm Reduction Challenges in the US Southern Mountains
Overdose deaths and some other consequences of substance use and its criminalization are greater in rural areas, particularly Appalachia1, 2 and other parts of the Mountain South. With health care shortages and underfunding of social services in rural areas3 and in the South predating COVID-19-related disruptions, rural Harm Reduction4 i programs are more likely to lack sufficient resources.5 A recent study6 focused on mostly urban sites in north…
Appreciating contributions more than celebrating resilience
Appalachia (3 works) · Harm (3 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Substance abuse (3 works)