"In Policing Patients , Elizabeth Chiarello eloquently and clearly outlines how policing and surveillance technology have become bound up with healthcare practices under the auspices of addressing the overdose crisis. Chiarello highlights the stakes of this for frontline workers such as pharmacists, prosecutors, investigators, and physicians and reveals the pervasive cultural logics embedded in our intersecting yet conflicting responses to addiction and pain." --Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD, author of Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis "In this ambitious account of the law in action, Elizabeth Chiarello reveals how frontline workers act as gatekeepers over how and whose pain is treated in America and how surveillance tools have transformed medical judgments that should be wholly independent of criminal justice considerations. Policing Patients is a major contribution that demonstrates how efforts to combat the opioid crisis have inadvertently produced punitive imperatives in professions that should be dedicated to care." --Jonathan Simon, author of Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America "In this wide-ranging study, Elizabeth Chiarello draws on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews to take readers behind the pharmacy counter, into doctors' offices, and within law enforcement agencies. Policing Patients is a powerful examination of the opioid crisis and surveillance technologies through the lens of frontline work." --Sarah Brayne, author of Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing "Chiarello shows, in devastating detail, how prescription drug surveillance databases inhibit pharmacists and other healthcare workers in their primary roles as care providers. Policing Patients gives a renewed understanding of the importance of patient-centered public health and the need to deemphasize and dismantle punitive structures in healthcare.

" --Jeffrey Bratberg, PharmD, FAPhA, University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy.