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The Clinical Evolutions of Surveillance and Violence During Three Contemporary US Crises: Opioid Overdose, COVID-19, and Racial Reckoning
In 2020, three crises coalesced to transform the clinical care landscape of addiction medicine in the United States (US). The opioid overdose crisis...
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Sustainability of Global Fund Grants
This chapter analyzes the sustainability of the Global Fund grants to the Kyrgyz Republic by elaborating on the continuity of project activities,...
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Harm reduction in tobacco control: where do we draw the line?
With substance abuse, harm reduction refers to reducing or replacing use of a harmful product with a less risky agent. But many advertised...
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Visualizing a Calculus of Recovery: Calibrating Relations in an Opioid Epicenter
This article uses participatory photography to explore the relationships animating efforts towards recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD) in the...
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Body, Detox, Affect
While assemblage thinkingAssemblageassemblage thinking has substantially informed critical and social studies of drugs and drug use, its use in...
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Spillovers of the Heroin Epidemic on Grandparent Caregiving
This paper estimates the effect of the OxyContin reformulation and the subsequent heroin crisis on grandparent caregiving in the United...
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Aid Relationships and Power Dynamics in the Global Fund Grants
This chapter discusses the types of aid relationships formed between stakeholders involved in the Global Fund grants to the Kyrgyz Republic. Building...
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Frequency, correlates and consequences of early sexual intercourse among Iranian men who inject drugs
This study aimed to determine the prevalence and the correlation between early sexual intercourse and its consequences among men who inject drugs...
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Negotiating SHI-FEI and shifei: Pursuing a Moralist Self in China’s Community-Based Addiction Treatment Programs
Based on 16 months of fieldwork conducted at drug addiction treatment facilities in Yunnan, Southwest China, this article examines how Chinese drug...
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Family-Centered Care Approaches for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Caring for Mothers and Infants
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a variable, complex, and incompletely understood spectrum of neonatal neurobehavioral dysregulation associated...
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An Academic Journey to Germany as a Kurdish Student
This article is about the cooperation project between The University of Sulaimani and the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum. I...
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From Categorical Distinctions of Policy Problems to a Relational Approach to Wicked Problems
In this chapter, we outline the difference between substantialist and relational understanding of social processes, by utilizing the distinction...
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The Stake of a Comparative Approach
Drug treatment policies, especially the medical discourse as it is known in the West and especially in the USA (e.g., Volkow et al. in N Engl J Med...
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My Two Boys
A father writes of his two sons, Alex and Mateo, both of different temperaments and talents, and once thought to be of different sexualities—one gay,...
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Employment Experience of Marginalized Older People Who Use Drugs in Hong Kong
Gerontology and substance abuse studies have demonstrated that older adults and people who use drugs are subjected to negative stereotypes and...
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Sustainability of Health Assistance
This chapter aims to provide an empirical operationalization and conceptual definition of sustainability in the context of health aid. Based on an...
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Opioid exposure in newborns: lessons learned from fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
The increasing incidence of opioid-exposed pregnancies in the United States is a concerning public health challenge. Analysis of the public health...
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Chemical Highs
Chemical Highs looks at how young people themselves develop and share with their peers a multitude of ways to maximize the pleasures and minimize the...