Hillbilly Elegy, by J. D. Vance: on Drugs


JD Vance: Addictions based on grim future without hope

I wrote this book because I've achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn't happen to most kids who grow up like me. You see, I grew up poor, in the Rust Belt, in an Ohio steel town that has been hemorrhaging jobs and hope for as long as I can remember. I have a complex relationship with my parents, one of whom has struggled with addiction for nearly my entire life. My grandparents, neither of whom graduated from high school, raised me, and few members of even my extended family attended college. The statistics tell you that kids like me face a grim future--that if they're lucky, they'll manage to avoid welfare; and if they're unlucky, they'll die of a heroin overdose.

I was one of those kids with a grim future. Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me. That is the real story of my life. From low social mobility to poverty to divorce and drug addiction, my home [in Appalachia] is a hub of misery.

Source: Hillbilly Elegy, by Sen. JD Vance, p. 1-4 May 25, 2017

  • The above quotations are from Hillbilly Elegy
    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    by J. D. Vance    .
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