Professor
M_Humanities & Social Sciences
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Research Interests: The social construction and experience of addiction; Co-morbidity (HIV, substance abuse, mental illness), homelessness, and US urban health; Chronic non-cancer pain, clinical uncertainty, and scientific evidence; Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bi-polar disorder, and the US welfare state; Gender, reproduction, motherhood and citizenship.
Publications
How Anti-Immigrant Policies Impact Research Among Latinx and Undocumented People Who Use Drugs.
American journal of public health
Harm Reduction Contingency Management for Stimulant Use Reduction and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence in HIV Primary Care: Protocol for an Implementation Effectiveness Study.
JMIR research protocols
The Rise of Clinical Decision Support Algorithms in Pain Management 2009-2024.
Journal of general internal medicine
"It's something we're connected to": Acceptability and adoption of overdose detection technologies implemented in San Francisco permanent supportive housing.
Journal of substance use and addiction treatment
Barriers to Buprenorphine Treatment Among People Experiencing Homelessness: A Qualitative Study from the Provider Perspective.
Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Homelessness and Returns to Housing: A Qualitative Analysis From the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness.
Journal of interpersonal violence
Withdrawal during outpatient low dose buprenorphine initiation in people who use fentanyl: a retrospective cohort study.
Harm reduction journal
Radical hospitality: Innovative programming to build community and meet the needs of people who use drugs at a government-sanctioned overdose prevention site in San Francisco, California.
The International journal on drug policy
Prenatal Opioid Use Disorder Treatment-the Importance of Shared Decision-Making.
JAMA internal medicine
Loneliness among homeless-experienced older adults with cognitive or functional impairments: qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME study.
BMC public health
Patient and Staff Perspectives on the Impacts and Challenges of Hospital-Based Harm Reduction.
JAMA network open
Using alone at home: What's missing in housing-based responses to the overdose crisis?
Harm reduction journal
The Clinical Evolutions of Surveillance and Violence During Three Contemporary US Crises: Opioid Overdose, COVID-19, and Racial Reckoning.
Culture, medicine and psychiatry
The IMPACT (Infection Management Plus Addiction Care Together) Pilot: A Case Series of Combined Contingency Management for Substance Use Disorders and Antibiotic Adherence in the Hospital Setting.
Journal of addiction medicine
Loneliness among older adults who have experienced homelessness: qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME study.
Research square
"Get in and get out, get on with life": Patient and provider perspectives on methadone van implementation for opioid use disorder treatment.
The International journal on drug policy
The intersection of drug use discrimination and racial discrimination in the management of chronic non-cancer pain in United States primary care safety-net clinics: Implications for healthcare system and clinic-level changes.
Drug and alcohol dependence
Rethinking urban-rural designations in public health surveillance of the overdose crisis and crafting an agenda for future monitoring.
The International journal on drug policy
Saving lives in our homes: Qualitative evaluation of a tenant overdose response program in supportive, single-room occupancy (SRO) housing.
The International journal on drug policy
"It's no foundation, there's no stabilization, you're just scattered": A qualitative study of the institutional circuit of recently-evicted people who use drugs.
Social science & medicine (1982)
Telehealth for management of chronic non-cancer pain and opioid use disorder in safety net primary care.
BMC health services research
Substance use policy and practice in the COVID-19 pandemic: Learning from early pandemic responses through internationally comparative field data.
Global public health
Health Impact of Street Sweeps from the Perspective of Healthcare Providers.
Journal of general internal medicine
"We Remember the Pain": A qualitative study of intergenerational trauma among older adults experiencing homelessness in the HOPE HOME study.
Journal of social distress and the homeless
Federal and State Regulatory Changes to Methadone Take-Home Doses: Impact of Sociostructural Factors.
American journal of public health
Structural Adaptations to Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Take-Home Dosing for Opioid Use Disorder in the Era of COVID-19.
American journal of public health
Barriers and Facilitators to Resolving Older Adult Homelessness through Stays with Family: Qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME Study.
Journal of social distress and the homeless
Ground-Truthing the Experiences of Homeless Older Adults' Recent Stays with Family and Friends: A Case Study of Participatory Data Analysis.
Journal of health care for the poor and underserved
Factors Associated with Pain Treatment Satisfaction Among Patients with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain and Substance Use.
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Acceptability Among Homeless-Experienced Adults: Qualitative Data from Two Samples.
Journal of general internal medicine
Temporary stays with housed family and friends among older adults experiencing homelessness: Qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME study.
Qualitative social work : QSW : research and practice
Race, pain, and opioids among patients with chronic pain in a safety-net health system.
Drug and alcohol dependence
COVID-19: A catalyst for change in telehealth service delivery for opioid use disorder management.
Substance abuse
Responding to the Opioid Epidemic: Educational Competencies for Pain and Substance Use Disorder from the Medical Schools of the University of California.
Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)
Structural competency and global health education.
Global public health
Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Design, Conduct, and Evaluate Randomized Controlled Trials with American Indian Communities.
Preventing chronic disease
Beyond a Moment - Reckoning with Our History and Embracing Antiracism in Medicine.
The New England journal of medicine
Structural Competency: Curriculum for Medical Students, Residents, and Interprofessional Teams on the Structural Factors That Produce Health Disparities.
MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources
"We Really Help, Taking Care of Each Other": Older Homeless Adults as Caregivers.
Gerontology & geriatric medicine
Racial Discrimination in the Life Course of Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness: Results from the HOPE HOME Study.
Journal of social distress and the homeless
Reproductive (In)justice - Two Patients with Avoidable Poor Reproductive Outcomes.
The New England journal of medicine
Vulnerable Patients' Psychosocial Experiences in a Group-Based, Integrative Pain Management Program.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
Sources and Impact of Time Pressure on Opioid Management in the Safety-Net.
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
“Reflections on the Intersection of Student Activism and Structural Competency Training in a New Medical School Curriculum”
Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine: A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health, edited by Metzl and Hansen.
“The Structural Competency Working Group: Lessons from Iterative, Interdisciplinary Development of a Structural Competency Training Module”
Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine: A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health, edited by Metzl and Hansen.
Patients' and clinicians' perspectives of co-use of cannabis and opioids for chronic non-cancer pain management in primary care.
The International journal on drug policy
Women on the Edge: Opioids, Benzodiazepines, and the Social Anxieties Surrounding Women's Reproduction in the U.S. "Opioid Epidemic".
Contemporary drug problems
Opioid pharmacovigilance: A clinical-social history of the changes in opioid prescribing for patients with co-occurring chronic non-cancer pain and substance use.
Social science & medicine (1982)
The risks of opioid treatment: Perspectives of primary care practitioners and patients from safety-net clinics.
Substance abuse
Teaching Structure: A Qualitative Evaluation of a Structural Competency Training for Resident Physicians.
Journal of general internal medicine
Provider Experiences With the Identification, Management, and Treatment of Co-occurring Chronic Noncancer Pain and Substance Use in the Safety Net.
Substance use & misuse
addicted.pregnant.poor. Duke University Press
addicted.pregnant.poor. Duke University Press.
Risk factors for stimulant use among homeless and unstably housed adult women.
Drug and alcohol dependence
Syndemic vulnerability, sexual and injection risk behaviors, and HIV continuum of care outcomes in HIV-positive injection drug users.
AIDS and behavior
Recent violence in a community-based sample of homeless and unstably housed women with high levels of psychiatric comorbidity.
American journal of public health
A roadmap for adapting an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention: personal cognitive counseling (PCC) for episodic substance-using men who have sex with men.
Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research
Single room occupancy (SRO) hotels as mental health risk environments among impoverished women: the intersection of policy, drug use, trauma, and urban space.
The International journal on drug policy
Agents of change: peer mentorship as HIV prevention among HIV-positive injection drug users.
Substance use & misuse
San Francisco and the Biomedicalization of Poverty
American Ethnological Society Section. Anthropology News.
The public life of sex work: risk, politics, and public health
Western Humanities Review
HIV intervention for providers study: a randomized controlled trial of a clinician-delivered HIV risk-reduction intervention for HIV-positive people.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Predictors of sharing injection equipment by HIV-seropositive injection drug users.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Predictors of current housing status among HIV-seropositive injection drug users (IDUs): results from a 1-year study.
AIDS and behavior
Factors associated with antiretroviral therapy adherence and medication errors among HIV-infected injection drug users.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Intimate partner violence perpetration against main female partners among HIV-positive male injection drug users.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Results from a randomized controlled trial of a peer-mentoring intervention to reduce HIV transmission and increase access to care and adherence to HIV medications among HIV-seropositive injection drug users.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Sexual transmission risk behavior reported among behaviorally bisexual HIV-positive injection drug-using men.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Unprotected sexual behavior among heterosexual HIV-positive injection drug using men: associations by partner type and partner serostatus.
Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
Split Ends: Masculinity, sexuality and emotional intimacy among HIV-positive heterosexual men. Men and Masculinities 8:309-320
Split Ends: Masculinity, sexuality and emotional intimacy among HIV-positive heterosexual men. Men and Masculinities 8:309-320.
"You cannot do nothing in this damn place": sex and intimacy among couples with an incarcerated male partner.
Journal of sex research
Sexual risk taking among HIV-positive injection drug users: contexts, characteristics, and implications for prevention.
AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education
The Health Care Experience of HIV Positive Injection Drug Users. Journal of Multicultural Nursing and Health, 11(1): 23-30
The Health Care Experience of HIV Positive Injection Drug Users. Journal of Multicultural Nursing and Health, 11(1): 23-30.
With a little help from my friends: community affiliation and social support among HIV-positive gay and bisexual men
HIV + sex: The psychological and interpersonal dynamics of HIV-seropositive gay and bisexual men's relationships. Halkitis, P.N., Gomez, C., & Wolitski, R. APA Press
The life priorities of HIV-seropositive injection drug users: findings from a community-based sample.
AIDS and behavior
"I don't know when it might pop up": understanding repeat HIV testing and perceptions of HIV among drug users.
Journal of substance abuse
Voices from the field: providers discuss HIV counseling and testing programs for drug users.
AIDS & public policy journal
This is my story: a descriptive analysis of a peer education HIV/STD risk reduction program for women living in housing developments.
AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education
Defunding the poor: the impact of lost access to subsidized methadone maintenance treatment on women injection drug users. Journal of Drug Issues. 26(4): 923-942
Defunding the poor: the impact of lost access to subsidized methadone maintenance treatment on women injection drug users. Journal of Drug Issues. 26(4): 923-942.
Involuntary verses voluntary detoxification from methadone maintenance treatment: the importance of choice. Addiction Research 3(4): 351-362
Involuntary verses voluntary detoxification from methadone maintenance treatment: the importance of choice. Addiction Research 3(4): 351-362.
Methadone maintenance: treatment as harm reduction, defunding as harm maximization. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 28(3)
Methadone maintenance: treatment as harm reduction, defunding as harm maximization. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 28(3).
Violence: a barrier to methadone maintenance treatment for women injection drug users. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 16(5): 143-164
Violence: a barrier to methadone maintenance treatment for women injection drug users. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 16(5): 143-164.