Upcoming EVents

Tuesday, October 8 @ 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. CT. Texas Substance Use Symposium.

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Thursday, October 10 · 3:30 - 5pm CT. Drug Policy Alliance

Live Webinar

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Monday October 14th, 2024 @ 7:00PM - 8:00 PM. Elliot Bay Book Company.

Book Talk

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Past events

Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 - 5:00 pm. Health Law Distinguished Speaker Series and book release reception

Room 1122 of Scott Hall,  100 N Tucker Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63101.

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Monday, September 16, 2024 - 7:00pm. Left Bank Books presents Elizabeth Chiarello

399 N. Euclid Ave St. Louis MO 63108

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2024. Edward Kremers Seminar in the History of Pharmacy and Drugs, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. Virtual Presentation.

Invited Presenter. “Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis.”

2024. The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A National Symposium. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Virtual Presentation.

Invited Speaker

2024. Course taught by Kelly Gillespie, Saint Louis University School of Law, Saint Louis, MO

Guest Speaker. “Crime, Punishment and Practitioner Regulation.”

2023. Course taught by Taleed El-Sabawi. Saint Louis University
School of Law, Saint Louis, MO, Virtual Presentation.

Guest Speaker. "U.S. Addiction Policy"

2023. Half-Baked Ideas Workshop. Saint Louis University College of Law. Saint Louis, MO

Invited Presenter. "White Coat Crime"

2023. Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Cambridge, MA.

Invited Presenter. “Policing Patients: How Anti-Opioid Hysteria is Turning Doctors into Cops.” 

2023. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. University of
Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. Virtual Presentation.

Invited Presenter. “Race, Inequality, and the U.S. Overdose Crisis.”

2023. Symposium on Open Source, Social Media, & National Security. Midwest Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence. Saint Louis, MO.

Keynote Speech. “Life Without Social Media: A Student Experiment.” 

2023. Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics. Saint Louis University. Saint Louis, MO.

Invited Presenter. “Policing Patients, Criminalizing Care.” 

2023. OB-GYN Grand Rounds. SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital. Saint Louis, MO.

Invited Presenter. “Policing Patients: How Efforts to Curb the Overdose Crisis Are Reshaping Professional Work.” 

2020.  Labor Tech. Washington University. Saint Louis, MO.

Invited Presenter. “Trojan Horse Technologies.”

October 23, 2020. Labor Tech. Washington University. Saint Louis, MO.

        Invited Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in Healthcare and Law              Enforcement.” 

October 2, 2020. Ethnography Workshop. New York University. New York, NY. Virtual presentation.

        Invited Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in Healthcare and Law              Enforcement.” 

September 10, 2020. American Political Science Association. Poster Session. Online.

       Poster Presenter. “The Healthcarceral State: Blurring Boundaries Between Healthcare and Criminal Justice in the Shadow of the                  Opioid Crisis.”

May 28, 2020. Law and Society Association. Online. 

       Panel Presenter. “The Healthcarceral State: Blurring Boundaries Between Healthcare and Criminal Justice in the Shadow of the                   Opioid Crisis.”

April 3, 2020. Work, Organizations, and the Economy Workshop. Brown University. Providence, RI. Virtual Presentation.

        Invited Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in Healthcare and Law              Enforcement.” 

March 6, 2020. Harvard Medical School: Treating the Addictions, Boston, MA.

       Invited Presenter. “Punitive Treatment: How Technology to Combat the Opioid Crisis Blurs the Line Between Policing and Care.”

December 3, 2019. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. SoHo House.                  New York, NY.

      Invited Presenter. "Examining How the Opioid Crisis Has Blurred the Lines Between Healthcare and Criminal Justice."

October 24, 2019. The Local Politics of Criminal Justice Reform. Legal Studies Program. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA.

         Invited Presenter. "The Opioid Crisis in Context: Rethinking State and Local Strategies." 

October 21, 2019. Health Law Roundtable, Northeastern University School of Law. Boston, MA.

         Invited Presenter. "Punitive Treatment: How Technology for Combatting the Opioid Crisis Is Blurring                                                                   Healthcare-Enforcement Boundaries."

October 2, 2019. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.

         Invited Presenter. "Punitive Treatment: How Technology for Combatting the Opioid Crisis Is Blurring                                                                   Healthcare-Enforcement Boundaries."

August 10, 2019. American Sociological Association Annual Conference. New York, NY. 

        Roundtable Presenter. “White Coat Crime: Developing a Micro-Level Theory of Field Relationships by Examining Opioid                              Enforcement Agents.”

July 24, 2019. International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Rome, Italy. 

        Panel Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: Implications of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Use in Healthcare            and Criminal Justice Fields.”

June 27, 2019. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, New York, NY. 

        Panel Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers And Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription          Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Opioid Misuse.”

June 1, 2019. Law and Society Association Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. 

        Panel Presenter. “White Coat Crime: How Administrative and Criminal Enforcement Agencies Target Healthcare Providers in the                Wake of the Opioid Crisis.” 

June 1, 2019. Law and Society Association Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. 

        Panel Presenter. Consortium of Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs: Fitting Undergraduate Research into your                                    Institutional Home and Your Busy Academic Life within R1, MA/MSGranting, and Teaching Institutions

April 13, 2019. Promises and Perils of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: A Workshop, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA. 

        Workshop Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in                                              Healthcare and Law Enforcement.” 

March 30, 2019. Anxiety and Depression Conference, Chicago, IL. 

        Panel Presenter. “New Professional Obligations in the Shadow of the Opioid Crisis: Implications for Professional Work and                          Patient Care.” 

April 11, 2019. Organizations and Change: Philip Selznick Centennial Symposium. Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.

       Invited Presenter. “Selznick’s TVA and the Grassroots as a Theory-Generating Case: Rethinking Cooptation and Power”                               (co-authored with Calvin Morrill). 

March 26, 2019. Punishment & Society Digital Speaker Series, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON.

       Invited Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers and Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription         Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Opioid Abuse.” 

February 22, 2019. Population Research Center. University of Texas. Austin, TX. 

Invited Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers And Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Opioid Abuse.” 

September 20, 2018. Pain Awareness Grand Rounds. Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Kansas City, MO. 

Invited Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers And Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Opioid Abuse.” 

September 14, 2018. Conference on Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO.

Panel Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics.” 

August 14, 2018. American Sociological Association Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 

Panel Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in Healthcare and Law Enforcement.” 

 June 9, 2018. Law and Society Association Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada. 

Panel Presenter. “Social Problems as Instigators of Field Change: How Attempts to Curb the Opioid Crisis Facilitate Change in Pharmacy and Law Enforcement.” 

 June 8, 2018. Law and Society Association Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada. 

Panel Presenter. “Pitching Scholarly Work to Public Audiences: Translational Research in Action.” Law and Society Association, Toronto, Canada. 

May 18, 2018. SIH/SIU Health Policy Institute. Opening Pandora’s Bottle: Law, Policy, and America’s Opioid Epidemic. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.

Invited Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers And Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Opioid Abuse.” 

May 9, 2018. National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Saint Louis, MO.

Invited Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers And Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Opioid Abuse.” 

April 26, 2018. Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO.

Invited Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers And Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Opioid Abuse.” 

April 6, 2018. Department of Sociology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, IS.

Invited Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers And Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Opioid Abuse.” 

March 27, 2018. Institute for Research on Women & Gender, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Invited Presenter. “Shared Technology, Competing Logics: How Healthcare Providers And Law Enforcement Agents Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs To Combat Opioid Abuse.”