Nick Surawy Stepney is a Wellcome Trust research fellow at the University of Exeter. A medical anthropologist, his current research project 'Drug Addiction and De-addiction in India: Genealogies, Politics and Practices' utilises ethnographic and archival methods to examine how ‘addiction’ is imagined and intervened upon in medical settings in north India. He completed his PhD in anthropology at the department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London in September 2022, with a project analysing the material and symbolic circulations of morphine in Indian cancer care. Subsequent to this, he was a postdoctoral research associate at King's, on the project ‘Grid oncology: remaking cancer care in India’.
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Mental health: meeting information needs for substance use disorders