Sovereign Rules and Rearrangements: Banning Methadone in Occupied Crimea |
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Authors: | Jennifer J Carroll |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Elon University, Elon, North Carolina, USAjcarroll16@elon.edu |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTIn 2014, Russian authorities in occupied Crimea shut down all medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs for patients with opioid use disorder. These closures dramatically enacted a new political order. As the sovereign occupiers in Crimea advanced new constellations of citizenship and statehood, so the very concept of “right to health” was re-tooled. Social imaginations of drug use helped single out MAT patients as a population whose “right to health,” protected by the state, would be artificially restricted. Here, I argue that such acts of medical disenfranchisement should be understood as contemporary acts of statecraft. |
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Keywords: | Russia Ukraine medicalization right to health sovereignty substance use |
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