The Section on Drugs and Society Distinguished Scholarly Paper Award
2023: Sadé L. Lindsay, Cornell University, and Mike Vuolo, The Ohio State University, “Criminalized or Medicalized? Examining the Role of Race in Responses to Drug Use.” Social Problems, 68(4): 942–963. 2021.
2022: Suzan Walters, David Frank, Brent Van Ham, Jessica Jaiswal, Brandon Muncan, Valerie Earnshaw, John Schneider, Samuel R. Friedman, Danielle C. Ompad, “PrEP Care Continuum Engagement Among Persons Who Inject Drugs: Rural and Urban Differences in Stigma and Social Infrastructure.” Aids and Behavior, Vol: 26(4): 1-13. 2022.
2021: Peter Ikeler, SUNY College at Old Westbury, “Labor Relations and the Overdose Crisis in the United States” Addiction Research & Theory
2020: Jamie Suki Chang, Emily Behar, & Phillip O. Coffin, “Narratives of people who inject drugs on factors contributing to opioid overdose,” The International Journal of Drug Policy, 74:26-32.
The Section on Drugs and Society Best Student Paper Award
2023: Anthony DiMario, University of Southern California, “To Punish, Parent, or Palliate: Governing Urban Poverty through Institutional Failure.” American Sociological Review, 87(5): 860–888. 2022.
2022: Joseph Wallerstein, Harvard University, “Treatment Infrastructure, Formal Organizations, and the Burdens of Addiction”
2021: David Showalter, University of California-Berkeley, “Place Effects on Health: Heroin Use in Backcountry California”
2020: David Showalter, University of California, Berkeley, “Acquainted Marginality: Social Structure and Inequality in Small Places.”
2019: Sarah Brothers, Yale University, “A good ‘doctor’ is hard to find: Assessing uncredentialed expertise in assisted injection”
2018: Katie K. Rogers, The University of Texas at Austin, “Only Real Criminals Rape: Race, Sexuality, and Morality Discourse in the U.S. Legal Cannabis Industry”
2017: Daanika Gordon, “Negotiating the Scope of the Family Analogy in a Drug Treatment Court”
2016: David Showalter, “Social Crisis and Symbolic Power: Institutionalizing Syringe Exchange in California”
2015: Landon Schnabel and Eric Sevell, “Should Mary and Jane Be legal? Comparing Americans’ Attitudes toward Marijuana and Same-Sex Marriage Legalization,” Public Opinion Quarterly 81(1):157-172. 2017.
2014: Kathryn M. Nowotny, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Race/Ethnic Disparities in the Utilization of Treatment for Drug Dependent Inmates in U.S. State Correctional Facilities,” Addictive Behaviors 40:148-153. 2015.
2013: Brooke West, Columbia University, “Casting a Wide Net(work): Aspects of social networks, drug use and HIV among Malaysian fishermen”
2012: Patrick K. O’Brien, University of Colorado, Boulder
2010: Erin Pullen, University of Kentucky
2009: Emily Tanner-Smith, Vanderbilt University
2008: Joseph Wolfe, University of Indiana
2007: Michael L. Weiss, University of Miami Coral Gables
2006: Brian Christopher Kelly, Purdue University
The Section on Drugs and Society Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award
2010: Samuel R. Friedman, National Development and Research Institutes
2007: Bruce D. Johnson, National Development and Research Institutes,
2005: Helen Raskin White, Rutgers University
2000: Carroll Estes, University of California, San Francisco
1997: H. Laurence Ross, University of New Mexico
1994: Harrison Trice, Cornell University
The Section on Drugs and Society Junior Scholar Award
2023: Scott Duxbury, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2023: Guangzhen Wu, University of Utah
2022: Suzan Walters, New York University
2021: Mark Pawson, Purdue University
2020: David Frank, New York University
2019: Yousef Yang, Department of Sociology, Murray State University
2018: Kathryn M. Nowotny
2017: Lindsey Richardson
2016: Elizabeth Chiarello, St. Louis University
2015: Khary K. Rigg, University of South Florida
2014: Emily E. Tanner-Smith, Vanderbilt University
2013: Michael Vuolo, Purdue University
2012: Alexander S. Bennett, National Development and Research Institute
2011: Dina Perrone, California State University, Long Beach
2010: Brian Kelly, Purdue University
2009: Carrie Oser, University of Kentucky
2008: William Pridemore, Indiana University
2007: Amie L. Nielsen, University of Miami Coral Gables
2006: Hannah K. Knudsen, University of Kentucky
2005: Ellen Benoit, National Development and Research Institutes
2003: Margaret Kelley, University of Oklahoma
The Section on Drugs and Society Senior Scholar Award
2023: Margaret Kelley, University of Kansas
2022: Craig Reinarman, University of California at Santa Cruz
2021: Richard Wilsnack, University of North Dakota
2020: Ricky Bluthenthal, University of Southern California
2019: Judith Richman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois-Chicago
2018: Charles D. Kaplan
2017: Henry Brownstein
2016: Wendy Chapkis, University of Southern Maine
2015: Carrie B. Oser, University of Kentucky
2014: Claire K. Sterk, Emory University
2013: Avelardo Valdez, University of Southern California
2012: Eloise Dunlap, National Development and Research Institute
2010: Samuel R. Friedman, National Development and Research Institutes
2009: Dale Chitwood, Social Epidemiology Research Group at the University of Miami
2008: Jim Inciardi, University of Delaware
