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""Winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association"" ""Winner of the Senior Faculty Scholarly Works Book Award, Saint Louis University"" ""Winner of the Donald Light Book Award, Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association"" ""Gripping. . . . Chiarello doesn’t flinch from the complexities of the story she tells.""---Sarah Fenske, St. Louis Magazine ""A Swiss Army knife of a book. [Policing Patients] offers tools to explain the opioid–involved overdose crisis, the plight of pain patients, the contradictory roles of doctors and pharmacists, our dysfunctional health care and drug treatment systems, and how the Drug Enforcement Administration surveils and bullies anyone involved with an opioid prescription. . . . Indispensable.""---Helen Redmond, Filter Magazine ""A spellbinding and provocative exploration of how health care providers, hospitals, pharmacies, the criminal justice system, and lawmakers try, flail, and ultimately fail to treat an intractable national social problem. . . . Highly accessible and reads like a long-form magazine article."" * Choice *

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Elizabeth Chiarello is associate professor of sociology at Saint Louis University, a former fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and a frequent public commentator on opioid-related topics. She and her work have been featured in The New York Times and USA Today, among other leading media outlets. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation.

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