City streetscapes and neighborhood characteristics of fatal opioid overdoses among people experiencing homelessness who use drugs in New York City, 2017–2019

ED Nesoff, DJ Wiebe, SS Martins - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Background While housing is a critical social determinant of nonprescription opioid
overdose, little is known about how place impacts fatal overdose for people experiencing …

Development of a systematic social observation tool for monitoring use of harm reduction supplies

ED Nesoff, SV Aronowitz, AJ Milam… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Harm reduction services such as safer injection supply distribution are essential
to reducing morbidity and mortality among people who use drugs (PWUD); however, local …

Neighborhoods and Health: Assessing “Neighborhood Effects” on Accidental Drug Deaths

C Contreras - Deviant Behavior, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, I applied criminological theory to the epidemiological understanding of health-
related deviant behavior such as problematic drug use. To that end, I built and subsequently …