Interview with Catherine Ross, September 13, 2018

Project: Painkiller: An Oral History of the Opioid Epidemic

Interview Summary

Catherine Ross talks about becoming addicted to heroin at age 17, growing up in Lexington, Kentucky, being among the first group of people to start opioid use rehab at Bluegrass.org nearly 40 years ago, and her lifelong battle to get off Methadone.

Interview Accession

2018oh556_pain014

Interviewee Name

Catherine Ross

Interviewer Name

Nadia Ramlagan

Interview Date

2018-09-13

Interview Keyword

"Hippies" Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Bluegrass.org Childhood Civil rights movements--United States Dilaudid Drug use in the 1960s Hepatitis C Heroin Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Lexington (Ky.) Lexington, Kentucky Medical care Medication-assisted treatment Methadone Recovery Rehabilitation Substance abuse disorders

Interview LC Subject

Drug abuse--Treatment. Drug addiction and recovery Drug addiction Drug addiction--Treatment. Heroin abuse Intravenous drug abuse Medication abuse. Opioid abuse Opioid use Pharmaceutical industry. Substance abuse--Patients--Rehabilitation. Substance abuse--Treatment.

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Ross, Catherine Interview by Nadia Ramlagan. 13 Sep. 2018. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

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