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Who Gets Hurt: Sexual Exploitation Among Women During Episodes of Homelessness
While the issue of homelessness has been heavily researched, the relationship between sexual assault among women experiencing homelessness remains an underacknowledged subject. Moreover, although both sexual assault and ...
Dual Reality: Opioid Use Disorder among Pregnant Women and Their Children
Individuals who experience a problematic pattern of opioid use or dependence suffer from opioid use disorder (OUD) ("Opioid Use Disorder"). The experience of OUD among pregnant women is unjust because it results not only ...
Medical Oppression: The Structural Mistreatments of African Americans in the Health Care System
Healthcare oppression is unique in that its consequences are as much physical as they are psychological. The dignity of the person, as well as their health, is threatened by factors that are inherently prejudiced as well ...
Invisible Harms: Barriers to Undocumented K-12 Students' Education
Approximately one-fourth of all immigrants residing in the United States are unauthorized, meaning they do not have US citizenship or official government approval to live in the US. That statistic looks like 11 million ...
Behind Desks & Bars: The Impact of Latino Underrepresentation in the Workforce of the Criminal Justice System
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with over 2 million people incarcerated in federal, state, or local prisons and jails (Rovner, and Porter). People of color -- particularly Blacks and Latinos ...
Fatherlessness, A Look at One of America's Most Pervasive Social Problems
Despite the increasing prevalence and negative consequences associated with fatherlessness in America, very few policies or community resources have been effectively dispatched to combat this social issue. However, after ...
Rockbridge Health COVID-19 Screening Protocol Improvement Project
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic drove the need to develop and implement new
procedures to prevent the spread of the disease. The current project addresses the unreliability of
Rockbridge Health's initial COVID-19 ...
"Ambiguous at best, discriminatory at worst": College Involuntary Leave Policies Strip Disabled Students of Agency and Opportunity
For college students with mental health conditions that manifest in self-harm or suicidal ideation, . . . the fear of being forced to withdraw from courses and leave campus is everpresent. Many colleges employ policies ...
Racial Inequities in OUD Treatment
The racial differences across harm reduction programs and MAT treatments are an inequity that is deserving of people attention. The inequity was created by political policies enacted by the Nixon administration in terms ...
Overdoses in Poor and Rural Communities: The Reality of the Opioid Epidemic in the United States
The following paper takes a three-part approach to the Opioid Epidemic in the United States. Specifically, the paper argues the Opioid Epidemic has a disproportionate impact on poor and rural counties in the United States. ...