How the war on drugs impacts social determinants of health beyond the criminal legal system

• Published in: Annals of medicine (Helsinki) Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 2024 - 2038
• Main Authors: Cohen, Aliza, Vakharia, Sheila P., Netherland, Julie, Frederique, Kassandra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Taylor & Francis 31.12.2022; Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: Addiction; Child; child welfare; criminalisation; Criminals; education; Educational Status; employment; health policy; Health Services Accessibility; Humans; public benefits; Public Policy; Review; Social Determinants of Health; substance use treatment; Substance-Related Disorders; surveillance; United States; war on drugs; United States; Social determinants of health; education; health policy; war on drugs; public benefits; criminalisation; child welfare; employment; substance use treatment; surveillance; public policy

There is a growing recognition in the fields of public health and medicine that social determinants of health (SDOH) play a key role in driving health inequities and disparities among various groups, such that a focus upon individual-level medical interventions will have limited effects without the...