G. D'Anne Weise, Ph.D.

About

G. D'Anne Hancock earned four degrees in finance and economics, including a Ph.D., and began her academic career at the University of Missouri in 1988. She earned tenure in 1994 and spent over three decades teaching and publishing in financial economics.

Her professional success was upended when her son, Scott, became addicted to opioids following a legitimate prescription at age 16. In 2019, he was arrested under drug-induced homicide laws and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Hancock retired early to

investigate how the U.S. justice system handles addiction, leading to this book her deeply personal account of a system that punishes the vulnerable and silences the truth.

In 2019, Scott was arrested on a Drug-Induced Homicide (DIH) charge for sharing fentanyl with a co-addict who subsequently died from an overdose.

Traumatized and unable to perform the duties required by her position, she retired early from the University and began studying criminal drug law, the US judicial system, DIH cases, and medical evidence. This book summarizes what she learned about the criminalization of addiction in the U.S justice system.