Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dr. Kimberly Sue

Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD, is a physician-anthropologist, author, and advocate for people who use drugs. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine within the Program in Addiction Medicine and is the former Medical Director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition, a national advocacy and capacity-building organization that promotes the health and dignity of individuals and communities impacted by drug use and the racialized War on Drugs. She is a practicing board certified internal medicine physician and does primary care at a methadone clinic as well as sees hospitalized patients with substance use disorders.

 
 
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Getting Wrecked by Dr Kimberly Sue Book Cover
 

Getting Wrecked

Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis

By Kimberly Sue

Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts.

 
 
 

About

Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine and the Medical Director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition. She is a graduate of the Harvard Medical School Social Science MD-PhD program. Her PhD work was completed in sociocultural (medical) anthropology where she studied the intersection of US prison systems, addiction policy, mental health and drug treatment. This research is the basis for her book, Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration and the American Opioid Crisis, published by University of California Press in September 2019.