Selected Publications

Interventions that reduce incarceration itself and effectively intervene with people in prison to screen, diagnose, and treat addiction and HIV, hepatitis C virus, and tuberculosis are urgently needed to stem the multiple overlapping epidemics concentrated in prisons.

Russia is home to the world's most explosive HIV epidemic...Despite this, the government exacerbates the problem by creating a climate of fear, repression and stigmatization for drug users while simultaneously denying them access to effective treatment programs.

This study is the only examination of within-prison drug injection from a nationally representative survey of people in prison...in a region where HIV incidence and mortality are increasing. Within-prison drug injection levels were extraordinarily high in the presence of low uptake of prison-based methadone maintenance treatment.

No previous study has troubled the objects of addiction treatment in prison settings. Potentially, then, the objects that we implementers and policymakers are translating are working differently and affecting the world differently than we expect.

This critique propels a move from an individually oriented model to one that appreciates the production of health as a collective endeavor offering a crucial—and up until now disregarded—starting point from which to implement health reforms in prison settings. Interventions, medical or otherwise, that work to excise the individual from the collective are unlikely to succeed in self-governing prisons.

Our approach focuses on what interventions can be made to do, and how they are put-to-use, including beyond their intended aims of translation...and how these might be worked-with to intervene differently. We notice, for instance, that the heroin enacted in practice afforded multiple forms of high and capital as well as treatment potential.