In 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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Carroll, J. J. (2019). Sovereign Rules and Rearrangements: Banning Methadone in Occupied Crimea. Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 38(6), 508–522. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2018.1532422
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