Craig Reinarman is Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Drug Research at the University of Amsterdam; Visiting Professor at Utrecht University; a Principal Investigator on research grants from the U.S. National Institute of Drug Abuse, and a consultant to the World Health Organization’s Programme on Substance Abuse.
Dr. Reinarman is the author of American States of Mind (Yale University Press, 1987), co-author of Cocaine Changes (Temple University Press, 1991) and Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice (University of California Press, 1997), and co-editor of Expanding Addiction: Critical Essays (Routledge, 2015).
He has published numerous articles on drug use, law and policy in such journals as the International Journal of Drug Policy, Theory and Society, the British Journal of Addiction, American Journal of Public Health, Criminology and Public Policy, and Addiction Research and Theory.
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Craig spoke about drug policy reform and why it is relevant to people who work with people who use drugs.
Craig presented without using a slideset.