"Policing Patients" Book Event
The Weidenbaum Center is thrilled to host author Liz Chiarello, Associate Professor of Sociology at Saint Louis University, for a dialogue and discussion on her new book Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis.
3:00-4:00 pm, Discussion and Q&A
4:00-5:00 pm, Reception
Dr. Chiarello draws on hundreds of in-depth interviews with physicians, pharmacists, and enforcement agents across the United States to take readers to the frontlines of the opioid crisis, where medical providers must make difficult choices between treating and punishing the people in their care. States now employ prescription drug monitoring programs capable of tracking all controlled substances within a state and across state lines. Chiarello describes how the reliance on these databases blurs the line between medicine and criminal justice and pits pain sufferers against people with substance-use disorders in a zero-sum game.
Copies of the book will be for sale at the event.
Registration is required. Space is limited.