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Books

Dertadian GC, 2019, A Fine Line Painkillers and Pleasure in the Age of Anxiety, Palgrave Macmillan, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unsw/reader.action?docID=5517011&ppg=1

Book Chapters

Dertadian GK, 2020, 'Doing Critical Drugs Research: From Deconstructing to Encountering Risk in the Field', in Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences, pp. 129 - 145

Dertadian G, 2020, 'Doing Critical Drugs Research: From Deconstructing to Encountering Risk in the Field', in Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward, pp. 85 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46855-2_5

Journal articles

Dertadian GC; Askew R, 2024, 'Towards a social harm approach in drug policy', International Journal of Drug Policy, 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104425

Dertadian GC, 2024, 'The Coloniality of drug prohibition', International Journal of Drug Policy, 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104368

Dertadian GC; Caruana T; Maher L, 2023, '‘Grew Up with a Silver Spoon in My Mouth, But it Ended Up the Nose’: The Stigma and Labelling of Injection Drug Use in an Affluent Beachside Community', Critical Criminology, 31, pp. 811 - 825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-023-09710-y

Dertadian GC, 2023, 'Is non-medical use normal? Normalisation, medicalisation and pharmaceutical consumption', International Journal of Drug Policy, 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104123

Dertadian GC; Rance J, 2023, 'Lives Worth Grieving: Differential Coverage of Overdose Deaths in Australian News Media (2015–2020)', Contemporary Drug Problems, 50, pp. 361 - 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00914509231178937

Dertadian GC; Yates K, 2023, '“Overdose Has Many Faces”: The Politics of Care in Responding to Overdose at Sydney’s Medically Supervised Injecting Centre', Contemporary Drug Problems, 50, pp. 136 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00914509221134716

Dertadian GC; Caruana T; Maher L, 2023, 'Injection drug use in an affluent beachside community in Sydney: An exploratory qualitative study', Drug and Alcohol Review, 42, pp. 544 - 554, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13592

Dertadian GC; Caruana T; Maher L, 2023, 'The gendered violence of injecting-related stigma among relatively affluent, suburban women who inject drugs', Drug and Alcohol Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13775

Dertadian G; Tomsen S, 2021, 'The Experience of Safety, Harassment and Social Exclusion Among Male Clients of Sydney's Medically Supervised Injecting Centre', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2029

Dertadian GC; Tomsen S, 2020, 'The case for a second safe injecting facility (SIF) in Sydney', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 32, pp. 180 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2019.1689787

Maher L; Dertadian G, 2018, 'Qualitative research', Addiction, 113, pp. 167 - 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.13931

Dertadian GC; Dixon TC; Iversen J; Maher L, 2017, 'Self-limiting non-medical pharmaceutical opioid use among young people in Sydney, Australia: An exploratory study', Drug and Alcohol Review, 36, pp. 643 - 650, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12474

Dertadian GK; Dixon T; Iversen J; Maher L, 2017, 'Pharmaceutical Opioid Use Among Oral and Intravenous Users in Australia: A Comparative Study.', International Journal of Drug Policy

Iversen J; Dertadian GK; Geddes L; Maher L, 2017, 'High Risk Injecting Behaviour Among People Who Inject Pharmaceutical Opioids in Australia.', International Journal of Drug Policy

Iversen J; Dertadian G; Geddes L; Maher L, 2017, 'High risk injecting behaviour among people who inject pharmaceutical opioids in Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 42, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.12.004

Dertadian G; Iversen J; Dixon TC; Sotiropoulos K; Maher L, 2017, 'Pharmaceutical opioid use among oral and intravenous users in Australia: A qualitative comparative study', International Journal of Drug Policy, 41, pp. 51 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.12.007

Dertadian GK; Dixon T; Iversen J; Maher L, 2017, 'Self-limiting Non-Medical Pharmaceutical Opioid Use among Young People in Sydney, Australia: An Exploratory Study.', Drug and Alcohol Review

Dertadian GK; Maher L, 2014, 'From Oxycodone to Heroin: Two Cases of Transitioning Opioid Use in Young Australians', Drug and Alcohol Review

Dertadian GC; Maher L, 2014, 'From oxycodone to heroin: Two cases of transitioning opioid use in young Australians', Drug and Alcohol Review, 33, pp. 102 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12093

Conference Papers

Dertadian G, 2012, 'Proscribed Perception: Participant Perspectives on Legitimacy & Criminality in the Non-Medical Use of Painkillers.', University of Tasmania, presented at 6th Annual Critical Criminology Conference - Changing the Way We Think about Chang, University of Tasmania, 12 July 2012

Dertadian GK, 2011, 'Pill Heads: Governance, Normalisation and Risk in Prescription Drugs Use.', James Cook University, presented at 5th Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference., James Cook University, 04 July 2011

Media

Dertadian GK, 2024, Addiction Research and Non-Carceral Approaches to Drug Use, , https://open.spotify.com/episode/62PwZ8NWvF2wLJZBOIpHGu?si=K4lZi_C9TZKhK6sPj7e--A

Dertadian GK, 2024, Prohibition, Colonisation, and Undermining Indigenous Rights, , https://www.talkingdrugs.org/prohibition-colonisation-and-undermining-indigenous-rights/

Dertadian GK, 2023, S2 - Episode 3 - Research and lived experience: advocacy and social harm, , https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DnWLYc1bpeTIC4lcdO9ck?si=q2M7I23fSOC-cz6H_uI5sw

Dertadian GK, 2018, Pain isn’t just physical: why many are using painkillers for emotional relief, , https://theconversation.com/pain-isnt-just-physical-why-many-are-using-painkillers-for-emotional-relief-106235

Dertadian GK, 2018, Drug users in outer Sydney need another medically supervised consumption room, , https://theconversation.com/drug-users-in-outer-sydney-need-another-medically-supervised-consumption-room-96463

Dertadian GK, 2018, Public housing ban on people with drug records likely to do more harm than good, research tell us, , https://theconversation.com/public-housing-ban-on-people-with-drug-records-likely-to-do-more-harm-than-good-research-tell-us-93731

Dertadian GK, 2016, Not everyone who takes painkillers for fun is an addict; some have just found a different way to cope, , https://theconversation.com/not-everyone-who-takes-painkillers-for-fun-is-an-addict-some-have-just-found-a-different-way-to-cope-57269

Dertadian GK, 2014, Misuse of painkillers on the rise, but why?, , http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=16558

Dertadian GK, 2013, Our Casual Culture Of Pill Use, , https://newmatilda.com/2013/10/18/our-casual-culture-pill-use/

Other

Lancaster K; Marshall A; Dertadian G; Yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club July 2018 - ‘Sending the Wrong Signal’, Society for the Study of Addiction, , https://www.addiction-ssa.org/commentary/qmjc-july-2018-sending-the-wrong-signal

Lancaster K; Marshall A; Dertadian G; Yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club June 2018 - Conceiving of addicted pleasures, Society for the Study of Addiction, , https://www.addiction-ssa.org/commentary/qmjc-june-2018-conceiving-of-addicted-pleasures

Lancaster K; Marshall A; dertadian G; yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club May 2018 - Why am I the way I am?, Society for the Study of Addiction, , https://www.addiction-ssa.org/commentary/qmjc-may-2018-why-am-i-the-way-i-am

Marshall A; Lancaster K; Dertadian G; Yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club April 2018 - Sleeping at the Margins, , https://www.addiction-ssa.org/commentary/qmjc-april-2018-sleeping-at-the-margins

marshall A; Lancaster K; Dertadian G; Yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club March 2018 - Ethnography and Injecting Drug Use, Society for the Study of Addiction, , https://www.addiction-ssa.org/commentary/qmjc-mar-2018-ethnography-and-injecting-drug-use

Marshall A; Lancaster K; Dertadian G; Yates K; Rance J, 2018, Qualitative Methods Journal Club February 2018 - Parents Who Use Drugs, Society for the Study of Addiction, , https://www.addiction-ssa.org/commentary/qmjc-feb-2018-parents-who-use-drugs


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