Locked In: The Criminalization and Racialization of Opioid Use Disorder

Daniela Alvarado, Ella Bouris, Emily Kohl, Leah Savage
SocGen 2021W

In this issue of Locked In, we explore the racialized history of the criminalization and medicalization of opioid addiction, and how this inequality has shaped the carceral landscape and lived experiences of incarcerated folks in America today: if the opioid epidemic is seen as a white issue, then why are Black and brown people primarily the ones in prison for it?

One Less Lonely Senior

Chloe Peyromaure de Bord, Sylvia Roberts, Jennifer Tuell, Samantha Underwood
SocGen 2020S

A project to illuminate the structural and biological issues of social isolation for seniors before the pandemic and the steps we can take to ameliorate the social marginalization of this vulnerable population.

Opioid Crisis Education and Advocacy Network (OCEAN) Final Project

Adele Huang, Clara Nguyen, Jared Ortaliza, and Minh Pham Tran
SocGen 2020W
Award for pushing the limits of the form

A non-profit organization designed to fight the opioid epidemic through community organizing and coalition building.

Think Tank: Covid-19 x Preparedness

Hannah El-Sabrout, Tasnia Haider, Chantel Thomas-Nguyen, Mili Patel
SocGen 2020S

We are a health systems comparative think tank that dives into an interdisciplinary analysis of South Korea and the United States, creating a proposal to improve preparedness for pandemics such as COVID-19.