Session 9 July 18th: Criminalization and other Critical Lenses
Section outline
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https://longreads.com/2017/08/03/the-war-on-drugs-is-a-war-on-women-of-color/
Excerpted from Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie (Beacon Press, 2017). Reprinted with Permission from Beacon Press.
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- Tuchman, E. (2010). Women and addiction: The importance of gender issues in substance abuse research. Journal of Addictive Diseases, 29: 127-138
- Chandler R, Fletcher B, Volkow N. 2009. Treating drug abuse and addiction in the criminal justice system: Improving public health and safety. JAMA. 301, 1024.
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"Over the past year a Philadelphia nonprofit, Safehouse, has been making headlines with its controversial plan to open the U.S.’s first supervised injection site. The proposed facility would allow Philadelphians with opioid addiction to inject drugs like heroin under the watchful eye of nurses equipped to intervene in accidental overdoses. The clients would provide their own opioids, but the nonprofit would supply needles, provide kits to test drugs for dangerous levels of fentanyl, and connect clients to treatment services"
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