By Dr George (Kev) Dertadian

Books

Wright EJ; Heydon J; Dertadian GC, 2026, ZEMIOLOGY BEYOND THE CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM: Harm, Colonialism and Decolonisation, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003603245

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

Wright EJ; Heydon J; Dertadian GC, 2026, 'Introduction', in Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism, Routledge, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003603245-1

Dertadian GC, 2026, 'Zemiology and Anti-Colonial Pedagogy', in Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism, Routledge, pp. 198 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003603245-17

Dertadian GC, 2026, 'ZEMIOLOGY AND ANTI-COLONIAL PEDAGOGY: How Social Harm Can Be Used in Decolonial and Abolitionist Teaching in Criminology', in Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism Harm Colonialism and Decolonisation, pp. 198 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003603245-17

Wadds P; Dertadian GK, 2025, 'Reclaiming Public Safety: How lessons from harm reduction can help us realise a police-free future', in Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies, Routledge, pp. 441 - 453, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003401162-39/reclaiming-public-safety-phillip-wadds-george-dertadian?context=ubx&refId=f59d300b-0596-4573-bbec-f8caeb0f1a83

Wadds P; Dertadian G, 2025, 'Reclaiming Public Safety', in Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies, Taylor & Francis, pp. 441 - 453, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003401162-39

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, 2026, 'Policing Pain: The Opioid Crisis, Abolition, and a New Ethic of Care', CRIME MEDIA CULTURE, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17416590261458919

Dertadian GC; Kaladelfos A; Wadds P; Crittenden S; McPhee T; Carey L, 2026, 'Strengths, Experiences, and Learning Support Needs of System-Impacted Students in Criminology and Law', Journal of Criminal Justice Education, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2026.2643397

Wright EJ; Heydon J; Dertadian GC, 2026, 'INTRODUCTION', Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism Harm Colonialism and Decolonisation, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003603245-1

Dertadian GC; Wadds P, 2026, 'Liberatory Harm Reduction on the Abolitionist Horizon', Contemporary Drug Problems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00914509261444378

Song A; Dertadian GC; He J, 2026, 'Recovery Capital in Chinese Drug Rehabilitation: Exploring Person-Centred and Community-Based Perspectives', Drug and Alcohol Review, 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.70088

Rowe S; Baker M; Wadds P; Matthews I; Dertadian GK; Kaladelfos A, 2025, 'Toward More Just Futures: Abolitionist pedagogy and lived experience in criminology courses, curriculum and degree program', Feminist Pedagogy, 6, https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpedagogy/vol6/iss4/21/

Dertadian GC; Keane H; Sherlock H, 2025, 'Innocent Addictions: Discourse Analysis of Media Coverage of Pharmaceutical Dependence in Australia', Contemporary Drug Problems, 52, pp. 408 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00914509241310745

Dertadian GC; Sentas V, 2025, '“No penalties. No arrests. No jails”: Perspectives on drug decriminalization among people who inject drugs in Sydney', International Journal of Drug Policy, 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104657

Dertadian GC; Caruana T; Maher L, 2024, 'The gendered violence of injecting-related stigma among relatively affluent, suburban women who inject drugs', Drug and Alcohol Review, 43, pp. 1062 - 1070, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13775

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 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

Iversen J; Dertadian G; Geddes L; Maher L, 2016, 'Harms Associated with Injection of Pharmaceutical Opioids in Australia', Drug and Alcohol Review, 35, pp. 43 - 44

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

Reports

Dertadian GK; Kaladelfos A; Wadds P; Rowe S; Carey L; McPhee T; Baker M; Crittenden S, 2026, Learning and teaching with system-impacted people: A toolkit for criminology programmes

Media

Dertadian GK, 2025, Prioritising harm reduction in an overdose crisis, https://thepolicymaker.jmi.org.au/prioritising-harm-reduction-in-an-overdose-crisis/

Dertadian GK, 2024, Is Drug Addiction A Racist Concept?, https://www.talkingdrugs.org/is-drug-addiction-a-racist-concept/

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

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