This brief outlines the legal framework on the right to adequate care and treatment for medical, mental health, and substance-related conditions in jails and highlights the findings of original research on litigation related to deaths in jail custody and provides recommendations for reform.

Using a two-way fixed effects event study analysis, this study estimates the effect of rendering sobriety checkpoints illegal on state-level counts of fatal car crashes, and arrests for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol (DUI), and drug possession.

This project aims to use an internet-based survey to gain a better understanding of the attitudes and beliefs among social workers to help inform educational and training needs in the social work profession and help support short- and long-term changes in treatment settings.

This study examines how changing economic conditions, especially signals of economic decline, have influenced counties’ opioid overdose death rates.

This study focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the response to the opioid epidemic; changes in first responders’ perceived and actual work and responsibilities as a result of responding to two colliding epidemics; and, the impact on first responders’ coping mechanisms including substance use and abuse as well as burnout and stress.