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Title: Heroin, Prescription Opioids, and Rural Superintendents: Understanding Rural District and Superintendent Responses to the Opioid Epidemic in Western Pennsylvania
Language: English
Authors: Burfoot-Rochford, Ian
Source: Journal of Research in Rural Education. 2020 36(1).
Availability: Penn State University College of Education, Center on Rural Education and Communities. 310B Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802. Tel: 814-863-2031; Web site: http://www.jrre.psu.edu/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 13
Publication Date: 2020
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Death, Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Rural Areas, School Districts, Program Development, Drug Addiction, Local Issues, School Community Relationship, Leadership Role, Superintendents, Mortality Rate, Economically Disadvantaged, Enrollment, Student Characteristics, Intervention, State Boards of Education
Geographic Terms: Pennsylvania
ISSN: 1551-0670
Abstract: The number of deaths caused by the use of heroin or prescription pain killers nationwide has increased annually over the past decade with some of the most rapid growth occurring in the nation's most rural areas. This qualitative study examines the responses of districts and superintendents to this growing health crisis in twelve rural school districts in western Pennsylvania, an area heavily affected by the recent opioid epidemic. I analyze how superintendents in these districts worked with their local school boards and communities to develop district programming to address local opioid misuse and addiction. I find that the capacity of superintendents to respond to the opioid crisis in their districts was at times limited by local perspectives of place and drug addiction, which justified limited support for district efforts to target this crisis. This research, however, also finds that the capacity of educational leaders to respond to this crisis expanded when community perspectives changed, typically after a community incident that stirred public support for responses to this crisis. However, despite these constraints or supports for leadership action, district responses to this crisis largely predicated on the ability of superintendents to successfully act on and within their unique zone of tolerance.
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Entry Date: 2020
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