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Title Statement | The prescription-to-prison pipeline: the medicalization and criminalization of pain / Michelle Smirnova. |
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Author | Smirnova, Michelle, 1983- |
Publication | Durham, NC: Duke University Press,[2023]©2023 |
Extent of Item | xi, 158 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781478019695 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06877070 |
Contents | Introduction: Quick fixes to enduring problems --The medicalization and criminalization of pain --Prescription : getting hooked --Pipeline : sorting use from abuse --Prison : from medicalization to criminalization --Conclusions: When medicine becomes a drug. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary | "In The Prescription-to-Prison Pipeline 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. Drawing on interviews with 80 incarcerated individuals in Missouri correctional institutions, Smirnova shows how contradictions in medical practices, social ideals, and legal policies disproportionately criminalize the poor for their social condition. This criminalization further exacerbates and perpetuates drug addiction and poverty. Tracing the processes by which social issues are constructed as biomedical ones that necessitate pharmacological intervention, Smirnova highlights how inequitable surveillance, policing, and punishment of marginalized populations intensifies harms associated with both treatment and punishment, especially given that the distinctions between the two have become blurred. By focusing on the stories of people whose pain and pharmaceutical treatment leads to incarceration, Smirnova challenges the binary of individual and social problems, effectively exploring how the conceptualization, diagnoses, and treatment of substance use may exacerbate outcomes such as relapse, recidivism, poverty, abuse, and death."-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States |
Discrimination in law enforcement--United States | |
Drug abuse--Government policy--United States | |
Medication abuse--Social aspects--United States | |
Opioid abuse--Social aspects--United States |