Structural Determinant News Today

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...

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...