“There's no one-size-fits-all solution for opioid use:” A Situational Analysis Exploring Opioid Use and the Opioid Crisis

Sapoznikow, Avery J.

“There's no one-size-fits-all solution for opioid use:” A Situational Analysis Exploring Opioid Use and the Opioid Crisis

dc.contributor.advisor	Mudry, Tanya
dc.contributor.author	Sapoznikow, Avery J.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Lacerda-Vandenborn, Elisa
dc.contributor.committeemember	Alonso Yáñez, Gabriela
dc.date	2022-11
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-23T15:41:45Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-23T15:41:45Z
dc.date.issued	2022-06-30
dc.description.abstract	Canada is currently in the midst of an ongoing war on drugs and poisoning crisis, otherwise known as the Opioid Crisis. Overdoses and deaths are occurring across the country in all provinces and territories. The situation of opioid use and the Opioid Crisis is wrought with conflicts, tensions, and complexity. To best understand the complexity of opioid use and the Opioid Crisis, the perspectives of self-identified former opioid users were collected through a survey (n=83) and follow up interviews (n=6). Situational Analysis (SA) was used to analyze the data to elucidate and explore the complexity of opioid use and the Opioid Crisis from the perspectives of self-identified former opioid users. Multiple iterations of visual maps were created to display the complexity of the situation and outline various perspectives and contests of former opioid users. Through the analytic mapping of participant data, I identified human and non-human elements related to opioid use and the Opioid Crisis. This includes sites of tension such as the morality and utility of opioid use, the causality of the Opioid Crisis, and approaches to recovery from opioid use. I review these findings within the context of the current literature and consider the implications of the results in terms of impacts on opioid users, policy, and counselling practice.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Sapoznikow, A. J. (2022). “There's no one-size-fits-all solution for opioid use:” a situational analysis exploring opioid use and the Opioid Crisis (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/115265
dc.identifier.uri	https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/40275
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Werklund School of Education	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.	en_US
dc.subject	opioids	en_US
dc.subject	opioid	en_US
dc.subject	substance use	en_US
dc.subject	drug use	en_US
dc.subject	heroin	en_US
dc.subject	fentanyl	en_US
dc.subject	prescription opioids	en_US
dc.subject	painkillers	en_US
dc.subject	morphine	en_US
dc.subject	oxycodone	en_US
dc.subject	situational analysis	en_US
dc.subject	postmodernism	en_US
dc.subject	social constructionism	en_US
dc.subject	substances	en_US
dc.subject	drugs	en_US
dc.subject	Opioid Crisis	en_US
dc.subject	recovery	en_US
dc.subject	treatment	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Health	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Social Sciences	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Mental Health	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Public Health	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Psychology--Social	en_US
dc.title	“There's no one-size-fits-all solution for opioid use:” A Situational Analysis Exploring Opioid Use and the Opioid Crisis	en_US
dc.type	master thesis	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Education Graduate Program – Educational Psychology	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science (MSc)	en_US
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