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.
"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." - Family Medicine
"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." - American Journal of Sociology
"I 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." - Journal of Anthropological Research
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"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." - Family Medicine
"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." - American Journal of Sociology
"I 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." - Journal of Anthropological Research
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