G. Karandinos

Most-cited papers

1. “Every ‘Never’ I Ever Said Came True”: Transitions from opioid pills to heroin injecting

   S. Mars, P. Bourgois, G. Karandinos, Fernando Montero +1 more

   2013The International journal on drug policy434 citations Open access

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2. The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City

   G. Karandinos, L. Hart, F. M. Castrillo, P. Bourgois

   2013Current Anthropology108 citations Open access

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3. Heroin-related overdose: The unexplored influences of markets, marketing and source-types in the United States

   S. Mars, Jason Fessel, P. Bourgois, Fernando Montero +2 more

   2015Social Science & Medicine (1967)67 citations Open access

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4. The Textures of Heroin: User Perspectives on “Black Tar” and Powder Heroin in Two US Cities

   S. Mars, P. Bourgois, G. Karandinos, Fernando Montero +1 more

   2016Journal of Psychoactive Drugs54 citations Open access

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5. Urban segregation and the US heroin market: A quantitative model of anthropological hypotheses from an inner-city drug market

   D. Rosenblum, F. M. Castrillo, P. Bourgois, S. Mars +3 more

   2013The International journal on drug policy53 citations Open access

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6. Decrease in injection and rise in smoking and snorting of heroin and synthetic opioids, 2000-2021

   G. Karandinos, Jay Unick, Jeff Ondocsin, Nicole Holm +4 more

   2024Drug and Alcohol Dependence38 citations Open access

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7. Structural vulnerability to narcotics-driven firearm violence: An ethnographic and epidemiological study of Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican inner-city

   Joseph Friedman, G. Karandinos, L. Hart, F. M. Castrillo +2 more

   2019PLoS ONE32 citations Open access

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8. Mortality risk among individuals who smoke opioids compared with those who inject: A propensity score-matched cohort analysis of United States national treatment data

   G. Karandinos, Jay Unick, D. Ciccarone

   2025Addiction20 citations

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9. The Structural Violence of Hyperincarceration — A 44-Year-Old Man with Back Pain

   G. Karandinos, P. Bourgois

   2019New England Journal of Medicine20 citations Open access

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10. Methuselah's medicine: pharmaceutical innovation and mortality in the United States, 1960-2000.

    Jason Schnittker, G. Karandinos

    2010Social Science & Medicine (1967)20 citations

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11. Tranq burn: Exploring the etiology of xylazine-related soft tissue injuries

    D. Ciccarone, G. Karandinos, A. Krotulski, Jeff Ondocsin +5 more

    2025The International journal on drug policy17 citations Open access

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12. Habitus furibundo en el gueto estadounidense

    Philippe Bourgois, F. M. Castrillo, L. Hart, G. Karandinos

    20136 citations

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13. The Political and Emotional Economy of Violence in US Inner City Narcotics Markets

    P. Bourgois, L. Hart, Fernando Montero, G. Karandinos

    2018Ritual, Emotion, Violence5 citations

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14. Mental Health Outcomes in Children after Parental Firearm Injury

    G. Karandinos, Mia Giuriato, Jose R. Zubizarreta, Katherine A Koh +3 more

    2026New England Journal of Medicine4 citations Open access

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15. Understanding the Health Impacts of the Rapid Shift to Drug Smoking in the US

    G. Karandinos, Travis P. Baggett, D. Ciccarone

    2026JAMA Internal Medicine2 citations Open access

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16. Mothers, sons, sisters and grief in the gangster economy: US necrogovernance in Philadelphia’s low-income Puerto Rican diaspora

    L. Hart, Philippe Bourgois, Fernando Montero, G. Karandinos

    2025International Sociology2 citations Open access

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17. Cashing in on Despair

    G. Karandinos

    20182 citations

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18. Habitus furibundo en el gueto estadounidense

    P. Bourgois, F. M. Castrillo, L. Hart, G. Karandinos

    2013Espacio Abierto2 citations

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19. Early evidence of the effects of xylazine-adulterated fentanyl in Ohio

    Daniel Rosenblum, G. Karandinos, Jay Unick, D. Cauchon +1 more

    2025The International journal on drug policy1 citations Open access

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20. The Violence of the American Dream in the Segregated US Inner-City Narcotics Markets of the Puerto Rican Colonial Diaspora

    P. Bourgois, L. Hart, G. Karandinos, Fernando Montero

    2021Cocaine1 citations

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21. Opioid Use Disorder and Evidence-Based Care Among Medicaid-Enrolled Youths

    Scott E. Hadland, Ijeoma Opara, Vicki Fung, Dan-Di Dong +8 more

    2026JAMA Network Open0 citations Open access

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22. Amputation rates among opioid-related hospitalizations in the US, 2016–2022

    G. Karandinos, Fernando Montero, Yu-Chiao Chang, Travis P. Baggett +2 more

    2026Annals of Internal Medicine0 citations Open access

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23. Health insurance instability following firearm injury: a matched cohort study

    G. Karandinos, Mia Giuriato, Peter T Masiakos, Chana A Sacks +1 more

    2025Annals of Surgery0 citations Open access

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24. 10. The Violence of the American Dream in the Segregated US Inner-City Narcotics Markets of the Puerto Rican Colonial Diaspora

    P. Bourgois, L. Hart, G. Karandinos, Fernando Montero

    2021Cocaine0 citations

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25. Can't Stop the Hustle: The Production and Exploitation of Precarious Life in Inner-City Philadelphia

    G. Karandinos

    20200 citations

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26. A process for spraying a hot melt adhesive

    L. Faissat, L. Sims, G. Karandinos

    20010 citations

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