Redlining, gentrification, and Black American mental health: A scoping review.

Racialized housing discrimination has important implications for the mental health of Black American populations. This scoping review, conducted from May to December 2022, summarized key definitions and measurement approaches relevant to redlining and gentrification and their impact on the mental health of Black adults in the United States. Interdisciplinary research databases were searched (PudMed, SCOPUS, Sociological Abstracts, PsycINFO), and a two-stage review of articles was conducted in Covidence.

Acceptability and Improvement of a Library-Based Substance Use Prevention Intervention.

Youth affected by household challenges are more susceptible to early substance use and are more than twice as likely to develop a substance use disorder later in adulthood than their peers. Despite the considerable need, effective, community-based substance use prevention programs are limited and may not address the current needs of youth, specifically for Black youth. Better Together is an age-appropriate, culturally relevant intervention designed to prevent substance use among Black youth exposed to household challenges.

Intersectional Racial and Sex Disparities in Unintentional Overdose Mortality.

Importance: There are several apparent research gaps based on the intersectional sociodemographic dimensions of drug-related mortality disparities. Relatively marginal evidence exists on the potential roles of intersecting forms of race and sexual marginalization on the disparities across drug-related mortality.

Objective: To examine intersectional sex-specific White and Black racial disparities in drug poisoning mortality across states from 2010 to 2020.

Assessing the association between safety perceptions and communication about sex and drugs among Black adolescents exposed to adversity.

The present study examined the association between safety perceptions and communication with a trusted adult about sex and drugs among Black adolescents exposed to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the role of gender as a potential moderator in this association. Data were drawn from a small, randomized control pilot test of an adapted evidence-based intervention conducted from 2022 to 2023 in Baltimore, Maryland. The sample included 57 Black adolescents who had been exposed to ACEs (M = 15.

Using the intervention mapping for adaption framework to adapt an evidence-based sexual health intervention for youth affected by trauma.

Background: Children exposed to household challenges (i.e., parental substance use, incarceration, and mental illness) are among the groups most vulnerable to sexual risk-taking in adolescence.

"It's on every corner": assessing risk environments in Baltimore, MD using a racialized risk environment model.

Physical, social, economic, and political environments can increase harm and risk among people who use drugs. These factors may be exacerbated in urban environments with a history of systemic inequality toward African Americans. However, racialized risk environment models have rarely been used within substance use research.

When a house is never a home: Housing instability among youth affected by parental drug abuse.

Background: The negative consequences of parental substance abuse are significant and longstanding for children. Among other risks, these youth are more likely to experience housing instability. The most common predictor of a child not living with their biological parent is parental substance use.