Nancy Campbell’s latest book, OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose, was chosen as one of the outstanding academic titles for 2020 by Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Campbell is a professor and the head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose begins with a history of drug overdose in the 20th century. Campbell then charts the emergence of naloxone, a drug once reserved for use in the operating room and in emergency medicine that became a tool used on the streets by harm-reduction activists.

Choice editors base their selections on numerous criteria including overall excellence in presentation and scholarship, importance relative to other literature in the field, and originality or uniqueness of treatment.

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OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose is published by MIT Press.

Campbell is also the author of Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice and Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research, and is the co-author of The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts and Gendering Addiction: The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World.