Publications

Peer-reviewed research with academic and community partners at the intersection of substance use, mental health, overdose and the criminal legal system.

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Peer-reviewed articles

  1. Otañez, M., Craft, B., Burges, N., Talley, V., Guerrero, A. (2025). Humanizing Drug Overdoses in Colorado: A Liberatory Harm Reduction Comic Made with Sex Workers and People Who Use Drugs. The Journal of American Folklore, 138 (549): 351–360. doi:10.5406/15351882.138.549.07
  2. LeMasters, K., Nall, S., Jurecka, C., Craft, B., Christine, P., Binswanger, I., Barocas, J. (2025). “You can’t incarcerate yourself out of the drug problem in America”: A qualitative examination of Colorado’s 2022 Fentanyl criminalization law. Health & Justice 13, 26. doi:10.1186/s40352-025-00334-8
  3. LeMasters, K., Nall, S., Jurecka, C., Craft, B., Christine, P., Goodman, R., Henderson, J., Haywood-James, R., Williams, A., Wittner, G., Barocas, J. (2025). Criminal legal penalties, substance use, and overdose: a concept mapping study examining Colorado’s criminal legal penalties. BMC Global Public Health 3, 1. doi:10.1186/s44263-024-00117-7
  4. Paquette, C., Ehle, K., Roach, M., Danns, T., LeMasters, K., Craft, B., Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2025). How competing needs after incarceration lead to adverse health outcomes among people who use criminalized drugs. BMC Global Public Health 3, 36. doi:10.1186/s44263-025-00152-y
  5. Nall, S.K., Jurecka, C., Ammons, A., Rodriguez, A., Craft, B., Waleed, C., Dias, D., Henderson, J., Boyer, J., Yamkovoy, K., Swathi, P., Patil, P., Behne, F., LeMasters, K., Brinkley-Rubinstein, L., Barocas, B. (2024). Identifying structural risk factors for overdose following incarceration: a concept mapping study. Health & Justice 12, 11. doi:10.1186/s40352-024-00265-w

Forthcoming

  1. Christine, P., Pytell, J., Gabrielson, A., Munoz-Jones, S., Craft, B., Rotello, H., Binswanger, I., LeMasters, K. Do state mandates translate to jail policies? A landscape review of Colorado jail policies for medication for opioid use disorder. Under review.
  2. LeMasters, K., Craft, B., Macht, A., Clifton, M., Godinez, B., Henderson, J., McConnellogue, M., Moffett, T., Nagy, M., Vickers, R., Walker, T., Wise, J. Local Criminal Legal Involvement, Mental Health & Substance Use: A Photovoice Project with a Community Advisory Board. Submitted.