Aden McCracken
Aden McCracken
International Working Group Member
Mail: ajmccrac@stanford.edu
Country: United States, based in Thailand
About Aden McCracken
Aden studies Medical Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Arts at Stanford University but is currently based in Bangkok. As a proud drug user herself, Aden’s academic, professional, artistic, and personal interests center on trans/queer drug user advocacy and Opioid Agonist Maintenance Treatment reform. She is currently working as a researcher at Correlation – The European Harm Reduction Network developing a project to assess access and availability to prison-based OAMT across Europe. She is also currently co-leading a global harm reduction oral history project centering BIPOC, trans, and queer people who use drugs called Labor of Love. Aden has volunteered at several needle exchanges and street-outreach programs across the United States and globe. She has been featured in Filter Magazine writing about U.S. methadone treatment reform and in the International Journal of Drug Policy for her research unveiling the effects of carceral and punitive practices on the bodily autonomy of womxn-patients within U.S. Opioid Treatment Programs. Aden was also an editor for sucking dick for syringes and conducted research for the upcoming novel Liquid Handcuffs: Policing and Punishment in Methadone Clinics and the Future of Opioid Addiction Treatment.