Cannabis + motherhood
I am interested in understanding what people want from their intoxication as they use substances with purpose and conscientious intent. Participants in our recent North State Intoxication study shared their …
Housing insecurity in California’s North State
With this post I want to highlight narrative data from our participants from the North State of California who have graciously shared their time and stories with us by participating …
‘Around here lately… sometimes it makes for a bad day every day’Â
Maggie is a single mother in her thirties living in a small town in Northern California. Most of her life has been spent in the North State…
A quilt of inequalities Â
Here at the CCPH, we are often labeled substance use researchers — alcohol researchers and, most often for me, a tobacco researcher. This is mostly because our research is framed …
Learning From LGBTQIA+ Young Adults
Over the summer we produced a science communication report for a study investigating tobacco use among LGBTQIA+ young adults that we’re currently wrapping up. The study, funded by the Tobacco-Related …
It’s Complicated: Harm Reduction Through Nicotine & Tobacco Use
Discussions among participants about the ways nicotine and tobacco (NT) products relate to the use of other substances has been a recurring topic in our recent tobacco harm reduction study. …
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Community, Resources
CC BY-NC-ND via Center for Critical Public Health Recently Center for Critical Public Health got the opportunity to have a table at the Pride in the Park Health and Wellness …
Taking care
Image by Alan Johnson @maklvane “I hope you are taking good care during these stressful and uncertain times.” We’ve all likely received many emails containing this phrase in the past …
Safer spaces
In 2018 and 2019, we conducted 200 interviews with LGBTQ+ young adults in the San Francisco Bay Area to understand their experiences within social contexts of drinking and intoxication. The …
Pandemic stress & tobacco harm reduction
Candy is a queer, nonbinary Iranian person living in Oakland and working remotely as a teacher. Their former use of cigarettes was strongly associated with situations where they felt heightened …