Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss and Redemption in the Rehab State, University of Minnesota Press, 2021
Nearly everyone in the United States has been touched in some way by the opioid epidemic, including the author and her family. Sullivan uses her own story as a launching point to learn how the opioid epidemic challenged longstanding recovery protocols in Minnesota, a state internationally recognized for pioneering addiction treatment. By centering the voices of many people who have experienced opioid use, treatment, recovery, and loss, Sullivan exposes the devastating effects of a one-size-fits-all approach toward treatment of opioid dependency. Taking a clear-eyed, nonjudgmental perspective of every aspect of these issues—drug use, parenting, harm reduction, medication, abstinence, and stigma—Opioid Reckoning questions current treatment models, healthcare inequities, and the criminal justice system. Sullivan also imagines a future where anyone suffering an opioid-use disorder has access to the individualized care, without judgment, available to those with other health problems.
Seen and Heard: Using Digital Community Engagement to Reconnect Communities and Enrich History Pedagogy
Chapter 5 in Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy, Rebecca Wingo, Jason Heppler, and Paul Schadewald, editors, University of Cincinnati Press, April 2020.
Remembering Rondo: An Inside Look at a History Harvest
Perspectives on History, American Historical Association, March 1, 2017
