Kev Dertadian (He/Him) 🍉
@kdertadian.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Criminology: non-carceral responses to drugs, harm reduction. Qualitative research on non-medical pharmaceutical use, injecting use.
Live on stolen and unceeded Wallumattagal country, and work on Bedegal country.
Live on stolen and unceeded Wallumattagal country, and work on Bedegal country.
You can read the article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Recovery Capital in Chinese Drug Rehabilitation: Exploring Person‐Centred and Community‐Based Perspectives
Introduction Chinese drug policy has begun to introduce recovery frameworks and rehabilitation models. These developments follow the recovery movement and align with several principles of recovery c...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
You can read the article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
As one participant put it, “proper rehabilitation” is a holistic process more fully aligned with Huíguī shèhuì, the Chinese word for ‘recovery’, which directly translates to: ‘returning to society’.
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
As one participant put it, “proper rehabilitation” is a holistic process more fully aligned with Huíguī shèhuì, the Chinese word for ‘recovery’, which directly translates to: ‘returning to society’.
including the restoration of human dignity, human connection and community. The study highlights the importance of understanding what recovery means to people who use drugs, and what that means for the provision of services they want and need.
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
including the restoration of human dignity, human connection and community. The study highlights the importance of understanding what recovery means to people who use drugs, and what that means for the provision of services they want and need.
Despite the strong controls placed on the lives of people in recovery and the way this limited their access to recovery capital, participants demonstrated a pragmatic and creative engagement with these systems in order to achieve their own vision of what recovery meant to them.
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Despite the strong controls placed on the lives of people in recovery and the way this limited their access to recovery capital, participants demonstrated a pragmatic and creative engagement with these systems in order to achieve their own vision of what recovery meant to them.
This meant that the needs of different groups of people in recovery went unmet, like people with criminal convictions, those with the least economic resources, women and especially those raising children, as well as the elderly.
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
This meant that the needs of different groups of people in recovery went unmet, like people with criminal convictions, those with the least economic resources, women and especially those raising children, as well as the elderly.
Participants reported that, while a limited set of resources were technically available to people in recovery, accessing them required contact with police or social workers, who viewed requests for resources as “causing trouble”.
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Participants reported that, while a limited set of resources were technically available to people in recovery, accessing them required contact with police or social workers, who viewed requests for resources as “causing trouble”.
The paper looks at this context as part of a broader movement towards notions of recovery capital in global drug policy, primarily in ways that focus on what medical and state systems understand recovery needs to be, often at the expense of how people experiencing drug dependence understand recovery
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The paper looks at this context as part of a broader movement towards notions of recovery capital in global drug policy, primarily in ways that focus on what medical and state systems understand recovery needs to be, often at the expense of how people experiencing drug dependence understand recovery
Its based on the incredible field research of the lead author with people who inject drugs in China, the paper looks at the emergence of recovery and treatment in the Chinese drug policy landscape and how it is experienced by people who are subject to it.
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Its based on the incredible field research of the lead author with people who inject drugs in China, the paper looks at the emergence of recovery and treatment in the Chinese drug policy landscape and how it is experienced by people who are subject to it.
If you are interested in submitting to or developing an idea for the special issue, the editors would love to talk to you about your idea(s) - you can email me direct via k.dertadian@unsw.edu.au
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
If you are interested in submitting to or developing an idea for the special issue, the editors would love to talk to you about your idea(s) - you can email me direct via k.dertadian@unsw.edu.au
Topics may include: decolonisation in drug policy and research; epistemic justice and drug policy; Indigenous knowledges and drug policy; Majority world (or Global South) perspectives and drug policy; gender and decolonial feminist approaches; and drugs, environmental and racial justice.
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Topics may include: decolonisation in drug policy and research; epistemic justice and drug policy; Indigenous knowledges and drug policy; Majority world (or Global South) perspectives and drug policy; gender and decolonial feminist approaches; and drugs, environmental and racial justice.
The Editors particularly welcome work locally grounded yet globally aware of the ongoing entanglements of colonial power and knowledge.
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The Editors particularly welcome work locally grounded yet globally aware of the ongoing entanglements of colonial power and knowledge.
This special issue is in part a response to this and other calls for drug policy research and practice to acknowledge its role in processes of colonisation and to commit to undo its relationship with colonial relations of power.
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This special issue is in part a response to this and other calls for drug policy research and practice to acknowledge its role in processes of colonisation and to commit to undo its relationship with colonial relations of power.
He went on to say that prohibition has and continues to be used as a tool of colonial violence through the "triple whammy of discrimination, racism and stigma" and that "decolonisation is everyone's business".
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
He went on to say that prohibition has and continues to be used as a tool of colonial violence through the "triple whammy of discrimination, racism and stigma" and that "decolonisation is everyone's business".
In 2023 Prof James Ward (Pitjantjatjara and Narungga scholar) gave a land acknowledgement where he said "Indigenous, Black and Brown peoples who use drugs are over-policed, have higher rates of arrest, fatal overdoses, prosecution and incarceration for drug use than other identifiable population"
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
In 2023 Prof James Ward (Pitjantjatjara and Narungga scholar) gave a land acknowledgement where he said "Indigenous, Black and Brown peoples who use drugs are over-policed, have higher rates of arrest, fatal overdoses, prosecution and incarceration for drug use than other identifiable population"
In this excellent peice, @Na'ama Carlin writes about how the report seeks to silence speech on Palestine on university campuses.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/15/i...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/15/i...
How to silence academic speech on Palestine
Jillian Segal’s proposal seeks to mobilise the IHRA definition of antisemitism and would have far-reaching implications for students and staff across Australian universities.
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July 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In this excellent peice, @Na'ama Carlin writes about how the report seeks to silence speech on Palestine on university campuses.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/15/i...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/15/i...
It's a strategy based on special treatment, rather than based in solidarity with the broader project of anti-racism.
It's another tactic in a long line of attempts to stop academics calling attention to one of the most pressing events in modern times, the current genocide in Palestine.
It's another tactic in a long line of attempts to stop academics calling attention to one of the most pressing events in modern times, the current genocide in Palestine.
July 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It's a strategy based on special treatment, rather than based in solidarity with the broader project of anti-racism.
It's another tactic in a long line of attempts to stop academics calling attention to one of the most pressing events in modern times, the current genocide in Palestine.
It's another tactic in a long line of attempts to stop academics calling attention to one of the most pressing events in modern times, the current genocide in Palestine.
You can read the chapter here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Reclaiming Public Safety | 39 | How lessons from harm reduction can he
The prohibition of alcohol and other criminalised substances is a cornerstone of contemporary law and order politics and a major driver of criminalisation. This
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June 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
You can read the chapter here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
We argue that in time, with careful planning & cooperation with communities who understand local dynamics, we may find new ways to co-produce safety in other settings or, as Hassan has said 'invest in the people you love, and who love you for all of your flaws and fuckups'
June 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
We argue that in time, with careful planning & cooperation with communities who understand local dynamics, we may find new ways to co-produce safety in other settings or, as Hassan has said 'invest in the people you love, and who love you for all of your flaws and fuckups'
The chapter breaks the illusion that public safety can only be realised through state policing & explores alternative approaches to the production of safety that is not reliant on police & state control — what Mariam Kaba describes as a movement towards the abolitionist horizon
June 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The chapter breaks the illusion that public safety can only be realised through state policing & explores alternative approaches to the production of safety that is not reliant on police & state control — what Mariam Kaba describes as a movement towards the abolitionist horizon
Contemporary harm reduction allows the approach to operate at scale in each of these case studies (through needle exchange, drug consumption rooms, peer user and harm reduction organisations involved in planning festivals), but also places people who use in proximity to police
June 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Contemporary harm reduction allows the approach to operate at scale in each of these case studies (through needle exchange, drug consumption rooms, peer user and harm reduction organisations involved in planning festivals), but also places people who use in proximity to police