Katherine Mclean
Biographic Data
| ID | 3937039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Mclean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclean |
| SIGNATURE | MCLEAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2963-5064 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medical-Legal Partnerships for Women With Co-Occurring Intimate Partner Violence and Opioid Use Disorder: An Exploratory Study
We interviewed 40 individuals working across service domains (e.g., healthcare, criminal justice) to understand their perspectives on the barriers and facilitators to employing a medical-legal partnership (MLP) in settings which serve women with co-occurring intimate partner violence and opioid use disorder (co-IPV/OUD). Providers cited "buy-in" from all stakeholders, establishing shared goals, objectives, and practices across stakeholders, train…
They Are Notoriously Not Very Honest”: Provider-Based Stigma and the Challenge of Integrated Care for Women Experiencing IPV and OUD
“I’m Not a Good Drug Dealer”: Styles of Buprenorphine Diversion in a Multisite Qualitative Study
BACKGROUND: Against the backdrop of the U.S. opioid epidemic, there has been a concerted movement to improve access to buprenorphine maintenance therapy (BMT). In Pennsylvania, where overdose mortality increased 65% between 2015 and 2017, over $75 million has been appropriated toward BMT since 2016. Concurrently, efforts to increase BMT availability while lowering barriers to entry have given way to fears of increased diversion and illegitimate p…
First Responders’ Views of Naloxone: Does Stigma Matter
BACKGROUND: Prior work has suggested that first responders have mixed feelings about harm reduction strategies used to fight the opioid epidemic, such as the use of naloxone to reverse opioid overdose. Researchers have also noted that provider-based stigma of people who use opioids (PWUO) may influence perceptions of appropriate interventions for opioid use disorder (OUD). This study examined first responders' perceptions of naloxone and the rela…
The “Guns on Campus” Study: A Collaborative Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (Cure) in Criminal Justice
Course-based undergraduate research experiences, or CUREs, have been shown to promote equitable participation in undergraduate research, an opportunity with potent benefits for first-generation and underrepresented minority students. Yet, CUREs are employed disproportionately within STEM fields, and among upperclassmen, despite evidence of their positive effects for lower-level, social science, and humanities students. The project described herei…
Policies in Need of a Problem? A Qualitative Study of Medical and Nonmedical Opioid Use among College Student-Athletes in the United States
Concern around nonmedical opioid use (NUPO) among student-athletes in the United States abounds, yet research around NUPO in this population is mixed. While some studies have identified athletic participation and related injury as risk factors for NUPO, the balance of research has found the inverse, or no association. This study represents the first qualitative inquiry into college student-athletes’ history of injury, medical and nonmedical opioi…
The “Crime on Campus” Study: Course-Based Undergraduate Research and Student Confidence
Undergraduate Research Activity (URA) has been shown to add value to numerous higher education programs, driving improvements in course learning, campus engagement, and college retention. Yet, URA opportunities disproportionately accrue to higher-achieving students, upperclassmen, and STEM majors, even as prior research has shown positive effects for underclassmen, individuals at less elite institutions, and social science majors. Criminal justic…
Risk and enabling environments in sport: Systematic doping as harm reduction
Visualizing Age, Period, and Cohort Patterns of Substance Use in the U.S. Opioid Crisis
Descriptions of the contemporary U.S. opioid crisis emphasize several “waves” of overdose deaths. However, a focus on trends in overdose deaths may obscure important sociological dynamics. The authors provide heatmap visualizations of estimated annual rates of past-year substance use, rather than overdose deaths, for prescription pain relievers and heroin. These visualizations are based on weighted analyses of self-reports, cross-classified by ag…
They're making it so hard for people to get help: ” Motivations for non-prescribed buprenorphine use in a time of treatment expansion
A kind of peace: Tracking the reflexive and resilient drug war
From “Junkies” to “Soccer Moms: Newspaper Representations of Overdose, 1988–2014
There's nothing here”: Deindustrialization as risk environment for overdose
From responsible users to recalcitrant dope fiends: Mapping modes of engagement with harm reduction
This article considers individuals' diverse modes of engagement with an increasingly medicalised strain of harm reduction that emphasises individual accountability for personal health and welfare. Drawing upon 1 year of ethnographic research at a New York City-based syringe exchange (“NYC Harm Reduction”, a pseudonym), I describe how drug users themselves made sense of harm reduction, negotiated its discourses of risk and responsibility, and inco…
Reducing Risk, Producing Order: The Surprisingly Disciplinary World of Needle Exchange
Emphasizing the reduction of risk over the cessation of drug use, needle exchange in the United States is often condemned for coddling its participants. Declining the punitive measures or unwavering teleology of criminal justice and drug treatment approaches, harm-reduction measures in general are faulted by naysayers for their refusal to establish clear normative boundaries for behavior modification. This article will seek to subvert such critiq…
Needle exchange and the geography of survival in the South Bronx
The biopolitics of needle exchange in the United States
Needle exchange began in the United States as a fragmented and illegal practice initiated by actors at the grassroots level; since the late 1980s, needle exchange has achieved increasing yet variable levels of institutional support across the country, receiving official sanction and funding from state and municipal governments. In turn, the practice(s) and discourse(s) of needle exchange have shifted significantly in many locales, becoming the pu…
From “Junkies” to “Soccer Moms: Newspaper Representations of Overdose, 1988–2014
Reducing Risk, Producing Order: The Surprisingly Disciplinary World of Needle Exchange
Emphasizing the reduction of risk over the cessation of drug use, needle exchange in the United States is often condemned for coddling its participants. Declining the punitive measures or unwavering teleology of criminal justice and drug treatment approaches, harm-reduction measures in general are faulted by naysayers for their refusal to establish clear normative boundaries for behavior modification. This article will seek to subvert such critiq…
The biopolitics of needle exchange in the United States
Needle exchange began in the United States as a fragmented and illegal practice initiated by actors at the grassroots level; since the late 1980s, needle exchange has achieved increasing yet variable levels of institutional support across the country, receiving official sanction and funding from state and municipal governments. In turn, the practice(s) and discourse(s) of needle exchange have shifted significantly in many locales, becoming the pu…
Needle exchange and the geography of survival in the South Bronx
Reducing Risk, Producing Order: The Surprisingly Disciplinary World of Needle Exchange
Emphasizing the reduction of risk over the cessation of drug use, needle exchange in the United States is often condemned for coddling its participants. Declining the punitive measures or unwavering teleology of criminal justice and drug treatment approaches, harm-reduction measures in general are faulted by naysayers for their refusal to establish clear normative boundaries for behavior modification. This article will seek to subvert such critiq…
From responsible users to recalcitrant dope fiends: Mapping modes of engagement with harm reduction
This article considers individuals' diverse modes of engagement with an increasingly medicalised strain of harm reduction that emphasises individual accountability for personal health and welfare. Drawing upon 1 year of ethnographic research at a New York City-based syringe exchange (“NYC Harm Reduction”, a pseudonym), I describe how drug users themselves made sense of harm reduction, negotiated its discourses of risk and responsibility, and inco…
There's nothing here”: Deindustrialization as risk environment for overdose
From “Junkies” to “Soccer Moms: Newspaper Representations of Overdose, 1988–2014
A kind of peace: Tracking the reflexive and resilient drug war
They're making it so hard for people to get help: ” Motivations for non-prescribed buprenorphine use in a time of treatment expansion
Visualizing Age, Period, and Cohort Patterns of Substance Use in the U.S. Opioid Crisis
Descriptions of the contemporary U.S. opioid crisis emphasize several “waves” of overdose deaths. However, a focus on trends in overdose deaths may obscure important sociological dynamics. The authors provide heatmap visualizations of estimated annual rates of past-year substance use, rather than overdose deaths, for prescription pain relievers and heroin. These visualizations are based on weighted analyses of self-reports, cross-classified by ag…
The “Crime on Campus” Study: Course-Based Undergraduate Research and Student Confidence
Undergraduate Research Activity (URA) has been shown to add value to numerous higher education programs, driving improvements in course learning, campus engagement, and college retention. Yet, URA opportunities disproportionately accrue to higher-achieving students, upperclassmen, and STEM majors, even as prior research has shown positive effects for underclassmen, individuals at less elite institutions, and social science majors. Criminal justic…
Risk and enabling environments in sport: Systematic doping as harm reduction
“I’m Not a Good Drug Dealer”: Styles of Buprenorphine Diversion in a Multisite Qualitative Study
BACKGROUND: Against the backdrop of the U.S. opioid epidemic, there has been a concerted movement to improve access to buprenorphine maintenance therapy (BMT). In Pennsylvania, where overdose mortality increased 65% between 2015 and 2017, over $75 million has been appropriated toward BMT since 2016. Concurrently, efforts to increase BMT availability while lowering barriers to entry have given way to fears of increased diversion and illegitimate p…
First Responders’ Views of Naloxone: Does Stigma Matter
BACKGROUND: Prior work has suggested that first responders have mixed feelings about harm reduction strategies used to fight the opioid epidemic, such as the use of naloxone to reverse opioid overdose. Researchers have also noted that provider-based stigma of people who use opioids (PWUO) may influence perceptions of appropriate interventions for opioid use disorder (OUD). This study examined first responders' perceptions of naloxone and the rela…
The “Guns on Campus” Study: A Collaborative Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (Cure) in Criminal Justice
Course-based undergraduate research experiences, or CUREs, have been shown to promote equitable participation in undergraduate research, an opportunity with potent benefits for first-generation and underrepresented minority students. Yet, CUREs are employed disproportionately within STEM fields, and among upperclassmen, despite evidence of their positive effects for lower-level, social science, and humanities students. The project described herei…
Policies in Need of a Problem? A Qualitative Study of Medical and Nonmedical Opioid Use among College Student-Athletes in the United States
Concern around nonmedical opioid use (NUPO) among student-athletes in the United States abounds, yet research around NUPO in this population is mixed. While some studies have identified athletic participation and related injury as risk factors for NUPO, the balance of research has found the inverse, or no association. This study represents the first qualitative inquiry into college student-athletes’ history of injury, medical and nonmedical opioi…
They Are Notoriously Not Very Honest”: Provider-Based Stigma and the Challenge of Integrated Care for Women Experiencing IPV and OUD
Medical-Legal Partnerships for Women With Co-Occurring Intimate Partner Violence and Opioid Use Disorder: An Exploratory Study
We interviewed 40 individuals working across service domains (e.g., healthcare, criminal justice) to understand their perspectives on the barriers and facilitators to employing a medical-legal partnership (MLP) in settings which serve women with co-occurring intimate partner violence and opioid use disorder (co-IPV/OUD). Providers cited "buy-in" from all stakeholders, establishing shared goals, objectives, and practices across stakeholders, train…
Medicine (17 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (9 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (9 works) · Opioid (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Public health (8 works) · Law (7 works)