Finding social (mis)alignment in older adult and opioid health policy implementation with corpus-assisted discourse analysis

•Attends to beliefs of stakeholders in health policy implementation pathway.•Argues for “policies” as social activities rather than objects.•Confirms that health systems and their agents often have conflicting policy beliefs.•Corpus-assisted discourse analysis of both documents (text) and interviews (talk).•Policymakers could use these findings and methods to align language use in policy.