Barbara (Basia) Andraka-Christou
[email protected]
www.bandrakachristou.com
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (including scheduled)
Adjunct Professor of Health Policy (undergraduate), Indiana University Bloomington, School of Public
and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, Scheduled for Spring 2017
Guest Lecturer, Health Care in America, Medical Sciences Department, Indiana University
Bloomington, Scheduled for Fall 2016 (two lectures)
Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Indiana Wesleyan University, Greenwood, IN, Spring 2016
Masters of Business: Health Administration Track (evaluations available upon request)
Guest Lecturer, Reproduction, Childhood and the Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law,
Spring 2016
Guest Lecturer, Heath Care in America, Medical Sciences Department, Indiana University
Bloomington, Fall 2015 (two lectures)
Guest Lecturer, Heath Care in America, Medical Sciences Department, Indiana University
Bloomington, Fall 2014 (two lectures; evaluations available upon request)
Guest Lecturer, Law & Medicine, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington, Fall
2014 (two lectures; evaluations available upon request)
EDUCATION
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Ph.D., Law & Social Science, August 2016
Dissertation: Social & Legal Perspectives on Underuse of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid
Dependence
Honors: Mattie B. Lacy Fellowship (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
IU Graduate Assistantship (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, J.D., May 2013
Honors: Maurer 100% Scholarship
Activities: Federal Communications Law Journal, Associate
Research Assistant, Professors Jody Lyneé Madeira and Timothy Waters
University of Florida, B.A., Economics, December 2008
Honors: summa cum laude
Florida Bright Futures 100% Scholarship
Dean’s List (every semester)
UF Presidential Service Award, 2006, 2007
Honors Thesis: Socioeconomic and Demographic Determinants of Lung Cancer
Activities:
President of Polish American Student Association (2006-2008)
PUBLICATIONS
Articles, Essays, & Manuscripts
What is 'Treatment' for Opiate Addiction in Problem-Solving Courts? A Study of 20 Indiana
Drug and Veterans Courts, 4 STAN. J. CRIM. L. & POL’Y __ (forthcoming 2016) (74 pages)
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2779660
Social & Legal Perspectives on Underuse of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid
Dependence, Dissertation, Law & Social Science Ph.D. (available upon request) (July 2016)
Essay, Improving Drug Courts through Medication-Assisted Treatment for Addiction, 23 VA.
J. SOC. POL’Y & L. 179-229 (2016)
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2779650
America Needs the TREAT Act: Expanding Access to Effective Medication for Treating
Addiction, 26 HEALTH MATRIX 310-362 (2016)
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2779675
Paper Trails, Trailing Behind: Improving Informed Consent to IVF through Multimedia
Applications, 3 J. L. & BIOSCIENCES 1-37 (2016) (peer-reviewed, co-authored with Jody Lyneé
Madeira)
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2779657
A Pressing Need for Pharmacotherapy Development to Treat Drug Addiction: An Editorial
from a Legal Perspective, in ANIMAL MODELS FOR MEDICATIONS SCREENING TO TREAT
ADDICTION 15-38 (Richard L. Bell & Shafiqur Rahman, eds., 2016)
 Also published as Animal Models for Medications Screening to Treat Addiction, 126 INT’L REV. OF
NEUROBIOLOGY 15-38 (2016) (peer-reviewed)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2779688
Public Policy Lessons from the Orphan Drug Act: Applications for Health Policy Advocates,
4 J. ENTREPRENEURSHIP & PUB. POL’Y 278-297 (2015) (peer-reviewed)
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2779688
Works in Progress
IATROGENICA: HOW PHYSICIANS CREATED THE OPIOID ADDICTION CRISIS & HOW THEY
CAN END IT (book co-authored with R. Andrews Chambers, manuscript in progress)
How Drug Courts Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act & the 8th Amendment by
Denying Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence (article manuscript in
progress)
The Illusion of Mental Health & Addiction Parity: Physicians’ Lived Experiences in Treating
Addiction (article manuscript in progress)
PRESENTATIONS (including scheduled)
Regulation of Pharmacological Treatment of Addiction: A Comparative Perspective
35th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, International Academy of Law and
Mental Health, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (scheduled for July 9, 2017)
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Syringe Exchange and HIV/AIDS
Invited Panel Moderator, World AIDS Day, School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana
University-Bloomington, December 1, 2016
U.S. History of Drug Treatment: Law, Policy, & Medicine
Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois (scheduled for
November 18, 2016)
Why So Few Physicians Treat Addiction & What We Can Do about It
Annual Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Symposium, Indianapolis, Indiana (scheduled
for October 13, 2016)
Improving Addiction Treatment in the Criminal Justice System
American Public Health Association Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado (scheduled for
October 30, 2016)
Underuse of Medication-Assisted Treatment in Drug Courts
Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, August 19,
2016
Talking about Addiction Treatment: Comparing Bias in Medical Journals and News Media
Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, August 19,
2016 (co-presenting with Alexander Christou)
Medical, Social and Legal Perspectives on Fetal Tissue Donation
Invited Speaker, Mini IU, Indiana University-Bloomington, June 14, 2016 (co-presented with
Mark Bauman and Stuart Yoak)
Legal Barriers to Physician Treatment of Addiction
Law & Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4, 2016
Underuse of Medication-Assisted Treatment in Drug Courts
American Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, April 15,
2016
IVF Law and Politics: A Comparative Perspective
Invited Speaker, Polish Studies Center, Indiana University-Bloomington, February 11, 2016
Underuse of Medication-Assisted Treatment
Invited Speaker, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana
University-Bloomington, January 25, 2016
Press coverage of presentation:
 Megan Jula, Untreated, INDIANA DAILY STUDENT (April 5, 2016),
http://specials.idsnews.com/untreated/ (follow-up interview)
 Megan Jula, Medication-Assisted Treatments are Underused with Opioid Addictions, Speaker Says,
INDIANA DAILY STUDENT (January 26, 2016),
http://www.idsnews.com/article/2016/01/drug-treatments-for-opiate-are-addictionunderused (circulation 14,000)
Need to treat Drug & Alcohol Abuse Equivalently in SB 36
Testimony, Subject Matter Expert to Indiana State Senate Judiciary Committee regarding SB36,
January 13, 2016
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Press coverage of testimony: Dave Stafford, Lawmakers table easing access to gun permits for alcohol
abusers, THE INDIANA LAWYER (January 14, 2016),
http://www.theindianalawyer.com/article/print?articleId=39236
Legal Reasons for Underuse of Medication-Assisted Treatment
Invited Speaker, Addiction Psychiatry Symposium, Indiana University School of Medicine,
November 17, 2015
Fetal Tissue Research: Medical, Legal, & Ethical Issues
Invited Speaker, Bioethics Society, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American
Institutions, Indiana University-Bloomington, October 27, 2015 (co-presented with Mark
Bauman and Stuart Yoak)
Science, Not Spirituality: The Need for Pharmaceutical Treatment of Opioid Addiction in the Criminal Justice
System
World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law & Social
Philosophy, Washington, D.C., July 30, 2015
Introduction to U.S. Patent Law
Invited Speaker, National Center for Research and Development, Warsaw, Poland, July __, 2015
Radio Interview: CLAAD Recommends Policies to Combat Prescription Drug Abuse, WFHB RADIO, June 8,
2015
Science, Not Spirituality: The Need for Pharmaceutical Treatment of Opioid Addiction in the Criminal Justice
System
Law & Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, May 28, 2015
Your Kids and Killer Drugs, Community Education
Local Council of Women, Bloomington, Indiana, March 8, 2015
Policy Process Lessons from the Orphan Drug Act
McGill Annual Graduate Conference in Law, Montreal, Quebec, May 29, 2014
The Future of Electronic Litigation Management
LSC’s Technology Innovation Grants Conference, Jacksonville, Florida, January 16, 2014
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Public Health Research, Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana
University/Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 2016 – present
Board Member, Monroe County CARES-Local Coordinating Council of the Governor’s
Commission for a Drug Free Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, August 2016-present
In-House Counsel, Enfoglobe, Inc., Gainesville, Florida, April 2014 – present (works remotely from
Indiana)
Graduate Fellowship, Indiana University-Bloomington, Indiana, August 2015 – May 2016
BAR ADMISSION
Florida
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