Nancy D. Campbell is Professor and Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the author of Using Women- Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice; Discovering Addiction- The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research; and coauthor 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.
Her book offers a riveting and complex look into the history of the phenomenon — and a sense of what a future without ODs could look like. —Washington Post, The Campbell's deeply researched book is driven by her desire to understand why it took so long for naloxone, and overdose prevention, to hit the mainstream. She discovered a group of varied protagonists — drug users, advocates, scientists and others — whose stories illustrate how naloxone, scientific progress and advocacy slowly shifted social attitudes. —Washington Post, The