Sheigla Murphy, Ph.D. is a medical sociologist who has been researching various types of illicit drug use and drug treatment for more than twenty years. Along with her ethnographic evaluation of San Francisco's needle exchange program, HIV Prevention Project, she is the Principal Investigator of three other National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded projects entitled: "An Ethnographic Study of Pregnancy, Drug Use and Violence," and "An Ethnography of Drug Use and Health Care." Dr. Murphy has published numerous articles in Addiction Research, the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Journal of Drug Issues, Contemporary Drug Problems and Qualitative Sociology concerning heroin use, methadone maintenance, needle sharing, cocaine selling, natural recovery from drug use and women's drug use. She is the co-author (with Dan Waldorf and Craig Reinarman) of Cocaine Changes: The Experience of Using and Quitting, Temple University Press, 1991. Her most recent book, by Dr. Murphy and Dr. Marsha Rosenbaum, Pregnant Women on Drugs: Combating Stereotypes and Stigma was published by Rutgers University Press February 1999.

(2001). Pregnant Drug Users: Scapegoats of the Bush/Reagan and Clinton Era Economics, Social Justice.(2001). A Cultural Impact of Needle Exchange: The Role of Safer Injection Mentors Contemporary Drug Problems. (1999). Pregnant Women on Drugs: Combating Stereotypes and Stigma. Rutgers University Press.(1995). Crack-using women's strategies for control: A social and political economy perspective.Journal of Drug Issues.(1994). Pharmacology is not destiny: The contingent character of cocaine abuse and addiction.Addiction Research, 2(1), 21-36.