OD : Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose Hardback
by Nancy D. (Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Campbell
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The history of an unnatural disaster-drug overdose-and the emergence of naloxone as a social and technological solution. For years, drug overdose was unmentionable in polite society.
OD was understood to be something that took place in dark alleys-an ugly death awaiting social deviants-neither scientifically nor clinically interesting.
But over the last several years, overdose prevention has become the unlikely object of a social movement, powered by the miracle drug naloxone.
In OD, Nancy Campbell charts the emergence of naloxone as a technological fix for overdose and describes the remaking of overdose into an experience recognized as common, predictable, patterned-and, above all, preventable.
Naloxone, which made resuscitation, rescue, and "reversal" after an overdose possible, became a tool for shifting law, policy, clinical medicine, and science toward harm reduction.
Liberated from emergency room protocols and distributed in take-home kits to non-medical professionals, it also became a tool of empowerment. After recounting the prehistory of naloxone-the early treatment of OD as a problem of poisoning, the development of nalorphine (naloxone's predecessor), the idea of "reanimatology"-Campbell describes how naloxone emerged as a tool of harm reduction.
She reports on naloxone use in far-flung locations that include post-Thatcherite Britain, rural New Mexico, and cities and towns in Massachusetts.
Drawing on interviews with approximately sixty advocates, drug users, former users, friends, families, witnesses, clinicians, and scientists-whom she calls the "protagonists" of her story-Campbell tells a story of saving lives amid the complex, difficult conditions of an unfolding unnatural disaster.
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- Pages:424 pages, 40 figures; 40 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:03/03/2020
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- Pages:424 pages, 40 figures; 40 Illustrations, unspecified
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- Publication Date:03/03/2020
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- ISBN:9780262043663