David Frank, Ph.D. Assistant Research Scientist New York University mailto:def281@nyu.edu 773-715-5912 ________________________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION 2011-2018 PhD (Sociology), The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Dissertation: “‘I was not sick, and I didn’t need to recover’: Methadone Maintenance Treatment as a Refuge from Criminalization” Committee: Barbara Katz-Rothman (Chair), David Brotherton, Ric Curtis (John Jay College), Rebecca Tiger (Middlebury College), and Jessie Daniels 2006-2010 MA (Sociology), DePaul University. Kappa Alpha Delta Honor Society 1995-1999 BA (Sociology), DePaul University Kappa Alpha Delta Honor Society ACADEMIC TRAINING 2019-current Affiliated Investigator, Center for Opioid Epidemiology, NYU Langone Health. 2019-current Affiliated Investigator, Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research, NYU School of Global Public Health; (NIDA P30DA011041). 2018-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Behavioral Science Training in Drug Abuse Research, NYU Rory Myers College of Nursing, (NIDA #5T32 DA007233-35). 2014-2017 Predoctoral Fellow, Behavioral Science Training in Drug Abuse Research, The National Development and Research Institute, National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA #5T32 DA07233). 2008-2010 Research Assistant to Dr. Greg Scott, Social Science Research Center, DePaul University. PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 1. Guarino, Honoria, David Frank, Kelly Quinn, Dongah Kim, Krista Gile, Kelly Ruggles, Samuel R. Friedman, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert. 2023, “Syndemic factors associated with non-fatal overdose among young opioid users in New York City”, Frontiers in Public Health (accepted). 2. Walters, S. M., Marisa Flesher, David Frank, Jessica Jaiswal, Tarlie Townsend, Brandon Muncan, Alex S. Bennett, Samuel R. Friedman, Wiley Jenkins, Mai T. Pho, Scott Fletcher and Danielle C. Ompad. 2023, “I don’t believe a person has to die when trying to get high: Overdose Prevention and Response Strategies in Rural Illinois”, Vol. 20(2). 3. Walters, S. M., David Frank, Marisa Felsher, Jessica Jaiswal, Scott Fletcher, Alex S. Bennett, Samuel R. Friedman, Lawrence J. Ouellett, Danielle C. Ompad, Wiley Jenkins, and Mai T. Pho. 2023, “How the rural risk environment underpins hepatitis C risk: Qualitative findings from rural southern Illinois, United States”, International Journal of Drug Policy, Vol. 112. 4. Frank, David, Krawczyk, N., Arshonsky, J., Bragg, M. A., Friedman, S. R., & Bunting, A. M. 2022, “Covid-19-related changes to drug-selling networks and their effects on people who use illicit opioids”, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, jsad-21. 5. Walters, S. M., David Perlman, Honoria Guarino, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, & David Frank. 2022, “Lessons from the First Wave of COVID-19 for Improved Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) Treatment: Benefits of Easier Access, Extended Take Homes, and New Delivery Modalities”, Substance Use & Misuse, 1-10. Frank 1 6. Simon, Caty, Louise Vincent, Abby Coulter, Zach Salazar, Nick Voyles, Lindsay Roberts, David Frank, & Sarah Brothers. 2022. “The Methadone Manifesto: Treatment Experiences and Policy Recommendations from Patient Activists”, American Journal of Public Health. 112(S2), pp. S117–S122. 7. Walters, Suzan M, David Frank, Brent Van Ham, Jessica Jaiswal, Brandon Muncan, Valerie Earnshaw, John Schneider, Samuel R. Friedman, Danielle C. Ompad. 2021, “PrEP Care Continuum Engagement Among Persons Who Inject Drugs: Rural and Urban Differences in Stigma and Social Infrastructure”, AIDS and Behavior 10.1007/s10461-021-03488-2. 8. Frank, David, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, David C. Perlman, Suzan M Walters, Laura Curran, and Honoria Guarino. 2021, “’It’s like Liquid Handcuffs: The effects of take-home policies on Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) patients’ lives”. The Harm Reduction Journal, 18(88). 9. Arshonsky, Joshua, Noa Krawczyk, Amanda M. Bunting, David Frank, Samuel R. Friedman, and Marie A. Bragg. “Informal coping strategies among people who use opioids during COVID-19: A thematic analysis of Reddit forums”, JMIR Formative Research, doi:10.2196/32871, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/32871 10. Frank, David. “’I’m pretty sure it’s either food poisoning or Covid-19’: Lived experience versus medical knowledge in diagnosing substance use problems”, 2021, International Journal of Drug Policy, 103348, ISSN 0955-3959. 11. Frank, David & Suzan M. Walters. 2021, “I'm going to stop myself before someone stops me”: Complicating narratives of volitional substance use treatment”, Frontiers of Sociology, Vol. 10. 12. Bunting, Amanda M., David Frank, Joshua Arshonsky, Marie A. Bragg & Samuel R. Friedman. 2021, “Socially-supportive norms and mutual aid of people who use opioids: An analysis of Reddit during the initial COVID-19 pandemic”, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 108672. 13. Santaellla-Tenorio, Julian; Tarlise Townsend; David Frank; Noa Krawczyk; and Samuel R. Friedman. 2021, “Letter regarding Rocket’s et al., manuscript: Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999-2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis”, EClinical Medicine, Vol. 34, 100820. 14. Muncan, Brandon, Ashley E. Jordan, David C. Perlman, David Frank, Danielle C. Ompad & Suzan M. Walters. 2021, “Acceptability and Effectiveness of Hepatitis C Care at Syringe Service Programs for People that Inject Drugs in New York City.” Substance Use & Misuse (PMID: 33682610). 15. Krawczyk, Noa, Amanda Bunting, David Frank, Joshua Arshonsky, Yuanqi Gu, Samuel R. Friedman, and Marie A. Bragg. 2021, "“How will I get my next week’s script?”: Reactions of Reddit opioid forum users to changes in treatment access in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic", International Journal of Drug Policy (PMID: 33558165). 16. Frank, David. 2020. “A Chance to Do it Better Methadone Maintenance Treatment in the Era of Covid19”, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (PMID: 33612189). 17. Frank, David. 2020, “’That’s no longer tolerated’: Policing patients’ use of non-opioid substances in Methadone Maintenance Treatment”, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1-8, (PMID: 32996399). 18. Frank, David. 2020, “Methadone maintenance treatment is swapping one drug for another, and that's why it works: Towards a treatment-based critique of the war on drugs”, International Journal of Drug Policy, 83, 102844, (PMID: 32653670). 19. Frank, David. 2019, “‘We’re Gonna be Addressing Your Pepsi Use’: How Recovery Limits Methadone Maintenance Treatment’s Ability to Help People in the Era of Overdose”, Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 3(2), 1-20. 20. Frank, David. 2018, “‘I Was Not Sick and I Didn't Need to Recover’: Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) as a Refuge from Criminalization”, Substance Use & Misuse, 53(2), pp.311-322, (PMID: 28704148). 21. Mateu-Gelabert, Pedro, Honoria Guarino, David Frank, Kelly Ruggles, Cassandra Syckes, Elizabeth Goodbody, and Samuel R. Friedman. 2017, “Factors Associated with Non-Fatal Overdose Among Frank 2 Young Opioid Users: Heroin and benzodiazepine Use, prescription opioid and heroin injection and HCV status”, Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 100(171), e131. 22. Frank, David, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, Honoria Guarino, Alex Bennett, Travis Wendel, Lauren Jessell, and Anastasia Teper. 2015, “High risk and little knowledge: overdose experiences and knowledge among young adult nonmedical prescription opioid users”, International Journal of Drug Policy, 26(1), pp.84-91, (PMID: 25151334). 23. Frank, David. 2013, “Review of Legalizing Prostitution by Ronald Weitzer” Social Problems Forum, 44(1), pp. 8-9. 24. Frank, David. 2011, “The trouble with morality: The effects of 12-step discourse on addicts’ decisionmaking”, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 43(3), pp.245-256, (PMID: 22111408). OTHER PUBLICATIONS 1. Frank, David. 2022. “Some people like to shoot dope: Ideology and Pragmatism in the Film ‘Methadone: An American Way of Dealing’”. Points History at: https://pointshistory.com/2022/02/24/shootdope/ 2. Bonn, Matt & David Frank. 2021. “How an Alliance between the US and Canada could Empower People on Methadone Maintenance Treatment” Urgent Public Health Needs Sites (UPHNS). at: https://uphns-hub.ca/product/how-an-alliance-between-the-us-and-canada-could-empower-people-onmethadone-maintenance-treatment/ 3. Frank, David. 2020 “It’s as Good a Time as Any to Scrap the Methadone Clinic System.” Filter Magazine, at: https://filtermag.org/scrap-methadone-clinic-system/ 4. Frank, David. 2020 “Methadone is Helpfully Understood as a Refuge from Criminalization.” Filter Magazine, at: https://filtermag.org/methadone-criminalization-refuge/ 5. Schlesinger, Traci, David Frank, Frank Edwards, Fernando Gonzalez, Meggan Lee and Julian Thompson. 2012. “Resisting White Supremacy in the Era of the Prison State” in The Limits of Equality: Sentencing Policies and Colorblind Racism by Traci Schlesinger, VDM Press, (Book chapter). OTHER MEDIA (interviewed and quoted) 1. Miller, Joshua Rhett, “Tranq invades NYC drug mills, expert calls city’s drugs ‘most dangerous’ ever’”, 2023, New York Post, at: NYC's drug supply is 'most dangerous' ever, prosecutor says (nypost.com) 2. Krasilnikov, Kirill and Muhammad Irfan, “ANALYSIS - Social Isolation, Treatment Disruption During COVID-19 Exacerbated Opioid Crisis in US”, 2022, Sputnik News at: ANALYSIS - Social Isolation, Treatment Disruption During COVID-19 Exacerbated Opioid Crisis In US - UrduPoint 3. Bonn, Matt, “Benzo withdrawal terrifies me. ‘Treatment’ Keeps Requiring It”, 2022, Filter Magazine, at: https://filtermag.org/benzodiazepine-withdrawal-treatment/ 4. “Lifesaving Addiction Treatment Out of Reach for Many Americans”, 2022, Pew Charitable Trusts, at: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2022/02/17/lifesaving-addiction-treatmentout-of-reach-for-many-americans 5. “Improved Opioid Treatment Programs Would Expand Access to Quality Care”, 2022, Pew Charitable Trusts, at: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2022/02/improved-opioidtreatment-programs-would-expand-access-to-quality-care 6. Breen, K., “Overdose deaths hit an all-time high in 2021. Why some drug policy experts still have hope”, 2022, Today.com, at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/overdose-deaths-hit-an-all-time-highin-2021-why-some-drug-policy-experts-still-have-hope/ar-AAXtuUe?ocid=uxbndlbing 7. Krihnana, M., “The DEA Is Making It Impossible for Many to Get Their Addiction Meds”, 2021, Vice Magazine.: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdynj/dea-restricting-access-to-opioid-agonists-suboxone 8. O’Donnell, J., “Harlem Residents Protest Against Opioid Clinics After Data Shows Most Are Used By Non-Residents”, 2021 Gothamist: https://gothamist.com/news/harlem-residents-protest-against-opioidFrank 3 clinics-after-data-shows-most-are-used-non-residents 9. Whelan, A., “One pandemic consequence has helped people in addiction. Advocates hope it becomes permanent”, 2021 The Philadelphia Inquirer: https://www.inquirer.com/health/opioidaddiction/methadone-study-take-home-doses-covid-19-opioid-addiction-20210901.html 10. Medrano, K., “Let People Take Home their Methadone”, 2021, Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/letpeople-take-home-their-methadone-1842557310 11. Tousenard, N., and Matt Bonn. “PANDA: The Birth of a Pan-American Drug-User Alliance”, 2020 Filter Magazine: https://filtermag.org/panda-pan-american-drug-user-alliance/ 12. Mozes, A., “Most Who Abuse Painkillers Are Unprepared If Overdose Strikes: Study”, 2020, Healthday. (originally appeared in Healthday but that link has been removed; this link goes to reprint at Sciencedaily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140902151212.htm GRANT AWARDS 2021-2023 “Opioid Withdrawal as a Catalyst for Positive and Negative Outcomes”, Diversity Supplement Award, National Institute of Health (3R01DA046653-0451), [PI of supplement: D. Frank; PI of Parent grant: Alex Bennett] 2020-2021 “Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Opioid Substitution Treatment: Factors influencing patient uptake and retention”, Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research, NYU School of Global Public Health, ($21,639), [PI: D Frank] 2020-2021 “Stakeholders Perceptions of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD): Patients’ Needs and Treatment Providers Willingness to Provide them”, Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, NYU Langone Health, ($10,000). [PI: D Frank] 2015-2016 Writing Across Curriculum/CUNY Writing Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY, ($20,000) 2011-2016 Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY, (Tuition plus yearly stipend of $25,000) ADDITIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2023-present Co-investigator – “Methadone Patient Access to Collaborative Treatment (MPACT)”, (Funded by PI Beth Meyerson’s research account at University of Arizona), (PI: Beth Meyerson). 2023-present Co-investigator – “Formative user engagement and feasibility of a digital harm reduction decision aid”, (Funded by PI Paul Joudrey’s research account at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine), (PI: Paul Joudrey). 2023-present Co-investigator – “Expanding overdose prevention program capacity in NYC”, (DOH Grant N0393), (PIs: Alex Bennett and Luther Elliott). 2023-present Co-investigator – “Evaluation of a community-based education, navigation, and support (CENS) intervention to reduce opioid-related harms among military veterans”, (1 RO1 DA052426-01 (F1980), National Institute of Drug Abuse, (PIs: Alex Bennett and Luther Elliott). 2023-present Co-investigator – “Overdose Risk Management and Compensation in the Era of Naloxone”, (3 RO1 DA046653-5 (F1171 NCE), National Institute of Drug Abuse, (PIs: Alex Bennett and Luther Elliott). 2023-present Co-investigator – “Leveraging regulatory flexibility for methadone take-home dosing to improve retention in treatment for opioid use disorder: A stepped-wedge randomized trial to facilitate clinic level changes", (1 R61 DAO57683-01), National Institute of Drug Abuse, (PI: Charles Neighbors, NYU SOM). 2022-present Consultant – “Implementation of Mobile Medication Units for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder in New York” (1 R21 DA058117-01), National Institute of Drug Abuse, (PI: Brenden Saloner). Frank 4 2022-present Lead Qualitative Analyst – “Qualitative Assessment of the First Government Sanctioned Overdose Prevention Center in the United States”, (R25DA037190), The Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Training Program on Substance Use and HIV, (PI: Suzan M. Walters, Ph.D.) 2022-present Ethnographer – “National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS-Trans) New Jersey”, The North Jersey Community Research Initiative (NJCRI), (PI: Anindita Fahad). 2021-present Lead Qualitative Analyst – “Ending HIV/AIDS among People Who Use Drugs: Overcoming Challenges”, New York University, School of Global Public Health, (PI: Suzan M. Walters, Ph.D.). 2020-2021 Co-investigator – Effects of Covid-19 on People Who Use Drugs (PI: Samuel R. Friedman, Ph.D.), NYU School of Global Public Health. 2019-2020 Project Director (NYC site) - Feasibility of PrEP for Persons Who Inject Drugs (PI: Suzan Walters, Ph.D.), Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research, NYU School of Global Public Health. 2017-2018 Research Assistant - The Fanteca Project on NYC Heroin Use (PI: Ric Curtis, Ph.D.), John Jay College of Criminal Justice 2016-2017 Research Assistant - Challenges to Opioid Treatment Programs After Hurricane Sandy (PI: Harlan Matusow, Ph.D., LP), Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. (# HITEP140014). AWARDS 2020-2021 Junior Scholar Award, American Sociological Association (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs section). 2016-2017 Mario Cappaloni Dissertation Fellowship for students showing exceptional promise in their field of study, The Graduate Center, CUNY, ($24,000). 2013-2014 Bruce D. Johnson Award for Top Paper by a Graduate Student/Drinking and Drugs Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems, ($100). 2008-2010 Dean’s Graduate Assistantship Award, DePaul University (Tuition). TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2022 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, DePaul University (taught remotely) • 2016-2019 2013-2017 Research Methods (Graduate) Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY (in-person) • Medical Sociology social science elective; two courses ~40 students each • Drugs and Society social science elective; three courses ~40 students each Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Queens College, CUNY (in-person) • Sociology of Drug Use social science elective; six courses ~35 students each • Introduction to Sociology social science requirement, two courses ~30 students each • Sociological Theory social science requirement, two courses ~30 students) each • Methods of Sociological Research social science requirement, one course ~30 students) each Frank 5 2015-2016 Writing Across Curriculum Fellow, Writing Across Curriculum, LaGuardia Community College • Led workshops for teachers on how to better incorporate writing into their courses including the development of: assignments, instructions, and rubrics. • Worked in the Writing Center as tutor for undergraduates. CONFERENCE/WEBINAR ACTIVITY Conferences Co-organized 1. Overdose Awareness Day: Beyond Naloxone (2-day event), Urban Survivors Union Greensboro, NC, August 30-31, 2021 2. The Methadone Revolution is Now: Don’t miss your first dose, Urban Survivors Union, Online Webinar, April 12, 2021. 3. The John Jay Criminal Justice Seminar, New York, 2017. Conference Panels Organized 1. Discussant, “Challenges related to integrating healthcare into drug treatment services”, National Academy of Medicine, Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic, October, 2022. 2. Presider/Discussant, “Overdose Risk Reduction in an Era of Fentanyl”, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Los Angeles, 2022 3. Presider/Discussant, “Researchers with Lived Experience and Participants as Research Partners”, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Los Angeles, 2022 4. Presider, “Impact of Opioid Use”, American Sociological Society, virtual, 2021 5. Discussant, “Critical Dialogue: Prescription Drug Misuse”, Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, 2019. 6. Discussant “Social Problems and Social Justice in the Era of the Opioid Epidemic”, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Philadelphia, August 10-12, 2018. Conference Presentations 1. “Evidence-based Methadone Treatment: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic”, The American Society of Addiction Medicine Innovations in Addiction Medicine and Science, April 13-16, 2023. 2. “SAMHSA’s Regulatory Changes from a Patient’s Perspective”, SAMHSA’s Proposed Updates to Methadone Rules: Will these Changes Do Enough to Expand Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, Yale Program in Addiction Medicine/National, NYU Langone Health/Drug Policy Alliance January 27, 2023. 3. “Re-framing Methadone Maintenance Treatment within the context of criminalization” (Keynote speaker), Meta:Phi Annual conference, Toronto, Ontario, September 23-24, 2022. 4. “I’ve never been a ‘compliant’ patient in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT)”, Methadone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: Examining Federal Regulations and Laws: A Workshop, The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, March 3-4, 2022. 5. “Aligning methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) with the needs and goals of patients”, New York Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Conference, February 10-11, 2022 6. “’I’m on methadone too’: Challenging the Bias of Neutrality in Social Science Research”, Addressing and improving Community-Driven Research for People Who Use Drugs – University of Kentucky webinar. December 2, 2021. 7. “Re-framing methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) from a patient’s perspective: The importance of lived experience in research”, Improving Opioid Overdose Modeling for Policy Change webinar, November 10, 2021. Frank 6 8. “Positioning methadone maintenance treatment within the context of criminalization”, Nordic Reform Conference, Oslo, Norway, October 29-31, 2021. 9. “Methadone Maintenance Treatment as ‘safe supply’, Overdose Awareness Day: Beyond Naloxone”, Urban Survivors Union, Overdose Awareness Day: Beyond Naloxone, August 30-31, 2021. 10. “Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Opioid Substitution Treatment: Factors Influencing Patient Uptake and Retention”, Society for the Study of Social Problems, annual conference, August 4-6, 2021. 11. “PreP care continuum engagement among people who inject drugs: rural and urban differences”, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, annual conference, June 21-24, 2021. 12. “’I’m Going to Stop Myself before Someone Stops Me’: Complicating Narratives of Volitional Substance Use Treatment”, David Frank and Suzan Walters, Society for the Study of Social Problems, annual conference, August 4-6, 2021. 13. “Opioid Substitution Treatment: Factors influencing treatment uptake and retention”, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, annual conference, June 21-24, 2021. 14. “The Methadone Revolution is Now: Don’t miss your first dose”, Urban Survivors Union, Online Webinar, April 12, 2021. 15. “Intersection of COVID-19 and substance use”, Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, Online Webinar, March 31st, 2021. 16. “Medication Assisted Treatment as a Refuge from Criminalization, Maintaining Methadone Take homes and Safety: Change at Last”, Urban Survivors League, Online webinar, December 17, 2020. 17. “Author Meets Critics: Kerwin Kaye – Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State”, American Society of Criminology, Washington DC, November 2020. 18. “Methadone Maintenance Treatment is Swapping One Drug for Another, and That’s Why it (Sort of) Works: Towards a Treatment-based Critique of the War on Drugs”, Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco (online due to Covid-19), 2020. 19. “’Liquid Handcuffs’: A discussion on Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) and its strict regulatory environment”, Open Society Conference, New York City, February 9th, 2020. 20. “How Recovery Obscures the Role of Criminalization in Drug Users’ Treatment Decisions”, American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, November 13-16, 2019. 21. “Challenging Stigma among People Who Use Illegal Drugs”, Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research, November 12th, 2019. 22. “Complicating narratives of volitional treatment: Towards a more honest relationship between providers and people in substance use treatment” (Keynote speaker), Keynote presentation at VID University Conference on Addiction, Drug Use, and Recovery, Oslo, Norway, November 6, 2019. 23. “Biased Fieldwork: The methodological difficulties (and advantages) of doing research as an insider”, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Philadelphia, August 10-12, 2018. 24. “Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT): Implications for Health Care Students”, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, November 2017. 25. “Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) in the era of recovery: Implications for harm reductionbased policy and activism part 3”, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, June 2017. 26. “The recovery discourse in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT): A decontextualized view of criminalization and the War on Drugs”, CUNY John Jay Criminal Justice Seminar, New York, 2017. 27. “Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT): Implications for Health Care Students part 2”, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, November 2016. 28. “‘I was not sick and I didn’t need to recover': Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) in the era of recovery”, University of Vermont at Middlebury Honors College Faculty Seminar, The Challenge of Frank 7 Illegal Drugs and Criminalization, Middlebury, Vermont, May, 2016. 29. “Overdose experiences and risks among nonmedical prescription opioid users: Poly-drug use, repeated overdoses, death and hospitalization”, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, August 21-23, 2015. 30. “Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT): Implications for Health Care Students”, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, October 2015. 31. “Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) in the ‘recovery’ era: Implications for Harm Reduction”, National Harm Reduction Conference, Baltimore, October 23-26, 2014. 32. “High Risk and Little Knowledge: Overdose experiences and knowledge among young adult nonmedical prescription opioid users”, Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, August 15-17, 2014. 33. “Bad Apples: Recovery narratives and deviance in Methadone Maintenance Treatment”, Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, August 9-11, 2013. 34. “Recover or Else: How narratives of recovery enforce notions of deviance in the Methadone Maintenance Treatment community”, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March 21-24, 2013. 35. “Becoming Authentic: Examining white suburbanites’ urban drug buying excursions through the lens of ghetto tourism”, American Sociological Association, New York, August 10-13, 2013. 36. “The Trouble with Morality: The effects of Twelve-Step discourse on addicts’ decision making”, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas, August 19-21, 2011. 37. “An Examination of how Abstinence/Morality based narratives of addiction effect the treatment decisions of opiate addicts”, American Association for Opioid Dependence Annual Conference, Chicago, 2010. 38. “Getting Normal: An examination of the lifestyle differences between active heroin addicts and methadone patients”, Chicago Ethnography Conference, Northwestern University, Chicago, 2008. ACADEMIC SERVICE 2022-2024 Division Chair, Drinking & Drugs, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020-2021 Committee Chair, Student Paper Competition, Society for the Study of Social Problems (Drinking and Drugs Division) 2018-2019 Committee Member, Student Paper Competition, Society for the Study of Social Problems (Drinking and Drugs Division). 2016-2017 Student Representative, Sociology Department, The Graduate Center, CUNY 2016-2017 Conference Organization Committee, John Jay Criminal Justice Seminar, CUNY COMMUNITY ORGANIZING & ADVOCACY 2022-present Board Member, National Coalition to Liberate methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). • A coalition of scholars, advocates, and people with lived experience working to advance progressive, evidence-based treatment policy in MMT. 2020-present Member, Urban Survivors Union. • Helping to grow political advocacy efforts that promote the rights of people who use drugs and challenging policies based on the War on Drugs. • Developing, writing, and editing written materials including: peer reviewed articles, conference presentations, organization materials, and position statements. • Organize and present at various webinars, conferences, and related organization activities. Frank 8 2020-current Member, Pan-American Drug Users Alliance. • Developing advocacy and scholarship that combines United States and Canadian efforts to increase the health and rights of people who use drugs and challenging criminalization and the War on Drugs. • Collaborate on articles and other organizational written materials. 2013-current Member, Vocal-NY. • Help to organize local and state-wide events to advocate for harm reduction solutions to drug use issues and for the rights of people who use drugs, • Helped to organize and attended various protests. SKILLS AtlasTi; NVivo; Dedoose; R Studio, SPSS; Sonar Audio Recording/Editing Software Package PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 1. American Sociological Association (ASA), Drinking and Drugs Division 2. Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), Drinking and Drugs Division American Society of Criminology (ASC) 3. Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) PEER REVIEWER FOR: 1. American Journal on Addiction 2. Harm Reduction Journal 3. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 4. Journal of Addiction Medicine 5. Critical Criminology 6. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment 7. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 8. Substance Use and Abuse 9. American Journal of Public Health 10. International Journal of Drug Policy 11. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 12. Journal of Extreme Anthropology Addiction 13. Frontiers of Sociology 14. Journal of Annals of Medicine 15. Scientific Reports 16. Journal of Video Ethnography Frank 9 REFERENCES 1. Barbara Katz Rothman, Ph.D. Full Professor of Sociology, Public Health, Disability Studies and Women’s Studies City University of New York, Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. bkatzrothman@gc.cuny.edu 212.817.8796 2. Holly Hagan, Ph.D. Full Professor Departments of Social Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology New York University Hh50@nyu.edu 212.998.5221 3. Honoria Guarino, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health; CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy honoria.guarino@sph.cuny.edu 646.364.9625 4. Greg Falkin, Ph.D. Program Director, Behavioral Science Training in Drug Abuse Research New York University greg.falkin@nyu.edu 212.998.5300 Frank 10