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Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline : The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain by Michelle Smirnova (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-101478019697
ISBN-139781478019695
eBay Product ID (ePID)26057262042
Product Key Features
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePrescription-To-Prison Pipeline : the Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain
SubjectPublic Health, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Medical
AuthorMichelle Smirnova
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight9.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2022-041333
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsI would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the political economy of pain in the United States. I applaud Smirnova for her clarity of analysis. I sincerely hope this book is read by the broad group of US professional communities, including health care workers, policy makers, prison directors, and many others, who are responsible for improving the management of pain and ensuring better outcomes for our fellow citizens., The Prescription-to-Prison Pipeline highlights ways in which inequity in medical and legal systems manifests inpatients who develop substance use issues following being prescribed medicine. Knowledge of these forces and howthey intersect fosters one's commitment to changing them. The need is great and requires efforts in multiple sectors. Dismantling inequity is an enormous task., Michelle Smirnova's The Prescription-to-Prison is a compelling narrative that hits squarely across numerous areas of sociology, including deviance and social control, criminology, medical sociology, social stratification, race/ethnicity, social class, and gender.
Dewey Decimal362.2930973
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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
SynopsisIn the Prescription-to-prison Pipelines 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 eighty 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 intensify 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 led to incarceration, Smirnova challenges the binary of individual and social problems, effectively exploring how the conceptualization, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use may exacerbate outcomes such as relapse, recidivism, poverty, abuse, and death., 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., 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 eighty 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 intensify 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 led to incarceration, Smirnova challenges the binary of individual and social problems, effectively exploring how the conceptualization, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use may exacerbate outcomes such as relapse, recidivism, poverty, abuse, and death.
LC Classification NumberHV5825.S56 2023
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