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DESCRIPTION:Title: Infectious Addictions in a Changing World\n \n\nBio: Bri
 an King is Head of Department of Geography\, Professor of Geography\, and C
 ourtesy Appointment in School of International Affairs (SIA) at Pennsylvani
 a State University\; Associate Faculty for the Population Research Institut
 e (PRI)\; Affiliate Faculty for Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (
 EESI)\; Affiliate\, Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction. \n \n\nAbstr
 act: The diverse threats to human health have long been understood as socio
 -environmental hazards\; however\, the rapidly expanding co-occurrence of e
 pidemics are an emerging socio-environmental crisis. While it remains commo
 n for social science disciplines to evaluate health hazards in isolation\, 
 political ecology frameworks analyze them as multi-faceted and synergistic 
 events that are generated by a confluence of political\, social\, and envir
 onmental dynamics. One recent example is the coincidence of the U.S. opioid
  epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite significant progress made in r
 ecent years toward reducing over-prescription of opioids and expanding acce
 ss to critical harm reduction and treatment services\, the COVID-19 pandemi
 c compromised many of these advances and raised new challenges for mitigati
 ng opioid use and misuse. This paper integrates quantitative and qualitativ
 e data from 2018 – 2023\, including opioid-related overdose incidents and q
 ualitative interviews with public health providers from across the Appalach
 ian region to identify the key factors influencing opioid misuse and transf
 ormations in addiction treatment practices. I argue that integrating politi
 cal ecologies of health frameworks with geospatial data can help in identif
 ying more informed policy interventions to assist the public health sector 
 in managing co-occurring epidemics and improve local overdose response in p
 laces that are experiencing dynamic change.\n\n*Light lunch served at 11:45
  a.m.
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LOCATION:Institute of Behavioral Science\, 155
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SUMMARY:IBS Speaker Series: Brian King
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