We are excited to congratulate LMCC member Camille Kroll on the recent publication of her academic article, 
“‘I can’t take in every stray puppy’: How U.S. Pain Specialists Purify Pain Management through Opioid-Related Gatekeeping” in Social Science & Medicine!
Camille is a PhD student in UNC’s Department of Anthropology, with a focus on sociocultural medical anthropology (and a longtime member of LMCC).
In January 2025, Camille was gracious enough to allow LMCC to workshop her article-in-progress, a discussion from which we gained a variety of insights, both on the topic at hand and on crafting a scholarly journal article. She’s just shared with us the exciting news that her paper has been accepted for publication!
Here’s the full publication info and how you can access the article:
- Kroll, Camille. “‘I can’t take in every stray puppy’: How U.S. Pain Specialists Purify Pain Management through Opioid-Related Gatekeeping.” Social Science & Medicine, vol. 392, 2026, 118956. ScienceDirect, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.118956.
Congratulations again to Camille! And thank you again for sharing your article-in-progress with us last year!
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Note: The Featured Image for this post is Figure 1 from Kroll’s published article.