Drug-related deaths (DRDs) are a major societal challenge. People who use drugs are at
particular risk of witnessing DRDs, and of losing people close to them to a DRD, and …

Contemporary discourse around digital well-being tends to focus on self-control when it
comes to “addicting” social media apps and digital devices. By acting on behalf of users …

Global drug policy is currently dominated by great enthusiasm about human rights, including
the idea that rights can generate less punitive approaches to drugs. But if human rights were …

Criminological scholarship has long grappled with the roles that stigma and labelling play in
drug use in disadvantaged communities. While stigma leads to marginalisation, less is …

This article explores the obituary as an important, yet neglected, site of everyday security
discourse. Through an original analysis of 86 published obituaries of 11 prominent …

Abstract The United States is facing a drug overdose crisis, and stigma against people who
use drugs is a major roadblock to implementing solutions. Despite the public health …

This article explores the differential coverage of drug overdose death in three major
Australian newspapers between 2015 and 2020. It outlines the number of articles, the types …

Obituaries of people who died from an opioid overdose represent a new territory for
understanding cultural narratives of the US opioid epidemic. Drawing on textual analysis of …

More than 32,000 people in Canada have experienced fatal opioid overdoses since a public
health emergency was declared in 2016, according to Health Canada. Communities of less …

From 2017 to 2019, I conducted fieldwork on the opioid crisis in upstate New York. As part of
my research, I interviewed people who use/d opioids. Interviewees discussed their …