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Michelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing opioid drug epidemic is the result of an endless cycle in which suffering is medicalized and drug use is criminalized.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Quick Fixes to Enduring Problems 1
1. The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain 27
2. Prescription: Getting Hooked 45
3. Pipeline: Sorting Use from Abuse 63
4. Prison: From Medicalization to Criminalization 79
Conclusions: When Medicine Becomes a Drug 93
Appendix: Methodological Note 111
Notes 121
Bibliography 135
Index 153

The PrescriptiontoPrison Pipeline

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: 24/03/2023
      ISBN13: 9781478019695, 978-1478019695
      ISBN10: 1478019697
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      Public health and preventive medicine Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Michelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing opioid drug epidemic is the result of an endless cycle in which suffering is medicalized and drug use is criminalized.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments vii
      Introduction: Quick Fixes to Enduring Problems 1
      1. The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain 27
      2. Prescription: Getting Hooked 45
      3. Pipeline: Sorting Use from Abuse 63
      4. Prison: From Medicalization to Criminalization 79
      Conclusions: When Medicine Becomes a Drug 93
      Appendix: Methodological Note 111
      Notes 121
      Bibliography 135
      Index 153

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