Biography

Christopher B. R. Smith is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is an inherently interdisciplinary scholar, whose diverse multiplicity of research interests contain a central, recurrent focus on the socio-spatial dimensions of mental health, addiction/treatment, and harm reduction policy and practice. His emphasis is on the biopolitics of methadone maintenance treatment, socio-spatial stigmatization concerning what he has termed the contested space of addiction treatment’ and community opposition to the perceived (socio-spatial) disorder of drugs.

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Research Interest

Critical Drug Studies, Harm Reduction, Drug Policy, Paradigm Shifts in Popular and Professional Perceptions of Addiction, Service User Involvement, Methadone Maintenance Treatment, Overdose Prevention, Qualitative Research, Ethnography