Sociologists Elizabeth Chiarello and Dorothy Roberts discuss Chiarello’s Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis, a book that takes readers inside the culture of surveillance that pits healthcare providers against their patients. Policing Patients urges medical providers to reaffirm their roles as healers and proposes invaluable policy solutions centered on treatment, prevention, and harm reduction.

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 USA Today and on Bloomberg News, among other leading media outlets. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation.