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Podcast: New Books In Public Health
Episode: Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose" (MIT Press, 2020)
Description: Reducing harm or shrinking the likelihood of accidental death are remarkably contentions projectsāin areas from sex education, to pandemic management, to drug use.Ā Nancy Campbellās important new book,Ā OD: Naloxone and the Politics of OverdoseĀ (MIT Press,Ā 2020) explores how a therapy that can stop an accidental drug overdose, called Naloxone, emerged in the American mainstream in the early years of the new millenniumādespite existing in some form for nearly a century. What are now called āopioid antagonistsā were used, not to save lives, but deployed by the carceral state to police drug users in the early twentieth cent...