Students from across Emory University will present thought-provoking performances, art installations and meaningful dialogue that showcase lessons learned while working with Atlanta artists in the classroom this semester.
Seven Atlanta-based artists including a poet, a playwright and a clown are working with Emory faculty this semester to add a creative perspective to addressing social justice issues that surface within class conversations.
Robert Nickelsberg
Overview
Over the past decade, attempts to address the overdose crisis in the U.S. have resulted in more restrictive opioid prescribing policies which, because they have reduced the overall availability of prescription opioids, have inadvertently led to a surge in the use of illicit drugs such as heroin.
Because these illicit opioids are often injected, they’re associated with higher rates of overdose than prescription painkillers, and, when unsterile injection equipment is used or shared, people are at risk of getting a serious infection or transmitting disease.
1 As of March 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that 44 states; Washington, D.C.; one tribal nation; and one territory were experiencing or at risk of an acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) or HIV outbreak due to injection drug use.
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Overwork and Exploitation Linked to Psychological Distress
Researchers connect economic exploitation, overwork, and wage theft to increased rates of mental disorders.
A new study, published in the
Journal of Epidemiology, links exploitation to mental illness. The authors, Seth Prins and colleagues at the Columbia University in New York City, go beyond the link between socioeconomic status and mental disorder to investigate the role of abusive power dynamics fostered by an economic system that enables overwork and wage theft.
“Focusing on exploitation rather than its consequences (e.g., socioeconomic status) shifts attention to a structural process that may be a more appropriate explanatory mechanism, and a more pragmatic intervention target, for mental illness,” Prins and his co-authors explain.