scholarly journals Acceptability of Supervised Injection Facilities Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in Upstate New York

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliana Duncan ◽  
Sarah Shufelt ◽  
Meredith Barranco ◽  
Tomoko Udo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Healthcare Setting ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Persons Who Inject Drugs ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Supervised Injection ◽  
Supervised Injection Facilities ◽  
Willingness To Use

Abstract Background Supervised injection facilities (SIFs) provide spaces where persons who inject drugs (PWID) can inject under medical supervision and access harm reductions services. Though SIFs are not formally established in the US, such facilities are being considered for approval in several New York State (NYS) communities. No data exists from PWID in NYS, and little from outside major US urban centers, on willingness to use SIFs and associated factors. Methods This analysis included 285 PWID (mean age=38.7; 57.7% male; 72.3% non-Hispanic white) recruited for a study on hepatitis C prevalence among PWID in Upstate New York, where participants were recruited from syringe exchange programs (n=80) and able to refer other PWID from their injection networks (n=223). Participants completed an electronic questionnaire that included a brief description of SIFs and assessed willingness to use SIFs. We compared sociodemographic characteristics, drug use/harm reduction history, healthcare experience, and stigma between participants who were willing vs. unwilling to use such programs. Results Overall, 67.4% were willing to use SIFs, 18.3% unwilling, and 14.4% unsure. Among those reporting being willing or unwilling, we found higher willingness among those who were currently homeless (91.8% vs. 74.6%; p=0.004), who had interacted with police in the past 12 months (85.7% vs. 74.5%; p=0.04), and who were refused service within a healthcare setting (100% vs. 77.1%; p=0.03). Conclusion Our results support SIF acceptability in several Upstate New York PWID communities, particularly among those reporting feelings of marginalization. A large proportion reported being unsure about usage of SIFs, suggesting room for educating PWID on the potential benefits of this service. Our results support SIF acceptability in NYS and may facilitate reaching PWID subgroups that are most marginalized, should SIFs become available.

scholarly journals Examining Overdose and Homelessness as Predictors of Willingness to Use Supervised Injection Facilities by Services Provided Among Persons Who Inject Drugs

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Shannon R. Kenney ◽  
Bradley J. Anderson ◽  
Genie L. Bailey ◽  
Debra S. Herman ◽  
Micah T. Conti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Persons Who Inject Drugs ◽  
Supervised Injection ◽  
Supervised Injection Facilities ◽  
Willingness To Use

Re-Conceptualizing Race in New York City's High School Social Studies Classrooms

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Lehner ◽  
John R. Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New York ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
New York State ◽  
Social Studies Education ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches

In New York State Public Schools, social studies education centers on employing interdisciplinary approaches to help students learn civic values and historical events. Increasingly, due in no small part to the influence of popular culture, social studies education research is making fewer distinctions about racial and ethnic identities. Following some trends in the larger academic community, more of the research in social studies education categorizes ethnically and religiously diverse European and African groups into the narrow categories of White or Black. This practice of flattening diverse European and African groups into current day race frameworks can be problematic when teaching high school social studies, particularly in highly diverse urban centers, because it perpetuates binary racial constructions that both are rooted in the historical fallacy of presentism and tend to contradict the students' ontological realities.

scholarly journals Forestland Parcelization in Upstate New York Despite Economic Stagnation and a Declining Population

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 280-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
René H. Germain ◽  
Kevin Brazill ◽  
Stephen V. Stehman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
New York State ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Central New York ◽  
Parcel Size

Abstract Nonindustrial private forestlands (NIPFs) account for a majority of the forested working landscape in the eastern United States. Throughout the United States, NIPF average ownership sizes continue to decline. Smaller parcel sizes create declining economies of scale for forest managersand timber harvesters, threatening the viability of the forested working landscape and, in turn, wood supply. This study documents the parcelization of NIPF holdings in a central New York State county during the last 25 years of the 20th century. The findings indicate the average parcel sizeof NIPFs decreased from 36 to 24 ac over the study period, despite a decline in population in the county. Although average parcel size is declining, a large percentage of the rural forestland remains in acreage classes suitable for forest management, as long as the forest products industrycan adapt to changes on the landscape. North. J. Appl. For. 23(4):280–287.

Paid Leave and Maternal Depressive Symptoms After Childbirth: The Moderating Role of Perceived Fairness of the Division of Household Labor

2020 ◽  
pp. 104438942091312
Author(s):  
Woosang Hwang ◽  
Eunjoo Jung ◽  
Andrea V. Shaw ◽  
Renee Mestad ◽  
Sandra D. Lane
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
New York State ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Perceived Fairness ◽  
Paid Leave ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Division Of Household Labor ◽  
Employed Mothers

We examined whether using paid leave is directly linked to employed mothers’ depressive symptoms. In addition, we examined the moderating effect of employed mothers’ perceived fairness of division of household labor (housework and childcare) on the above association. We collected data from 92 employed mothers who were eligible to take paid leave and returned to the workplace after childbirth in Upstate New York State area. Using hierarchical regression analyses, we found that employed mothers’ paid leave use was not significantly associated with their levels of depressive symptoms. However, perceived fairness of division of household labor moderated the above association. Specifically, when employed mothers took paid leave, they reported lower levels of depressive symptoms than those who did not take leave when they perceived that the division of household labor was fair to them.

The Rogue Winemaker of Bully Hill

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
susan raich
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Wine Industry ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Hybrid Variety ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The 1960S

Walter S. Taylor (1931––2001), a home-grown hero of Finger Lakes viticulture, pioneered the movement toward independent estate wine production in upstate New York. Although his family name was a prominent one in the wine industry of the 1960s, Walter's disputes with family business practices led him to set up his own winery, Bully Hill vineyards, by 1970. There, he committed himself to using hybrid-variety, locally grown grapes to produce bona fide New York State wine. His was the first independent winery to be established after Prohibition, and he advocated for legislation which allowed other farmers to bottle and sell their own vintages. Walter trumpeted an irreverent approach to the old winemaking establishment, particularly after his family's business brought legal action against him for using the Taylor name on his own bottle labels. To protest the oppression of the Taylor company corporation, Walter staged parades, promoted his own renegade image and that of Guilt Free (his pet goat), and insisted that wine must be produced with care and drunk with cheer. Walter's own artwork decorates Bully Hill bottles, and the winery shares his full-bodied spirit with thousands of visitors to this day.

scholarly journals Triggering of cardiovascular hospital admissions by source specific fine particle concentrations in urban centers of New York State

2019 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 387-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Q. Rich ◽  
Wangjian Zhang ◽  
Shao Lin ◽  
Stefania Squizzato ◽  
Sally W. Thurston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Fine Particle ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
New York State ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
York State

Evaluating local workforce development programs in Upstate New York, USA

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-366
Author(s):  
Carlos J. L. Balsas ◽  
Anthony Swingruber ◽  
Yen-Fu Lin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
New York State ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Program Outcomes ◽  
Capital Region ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Employment Rates

Workforce development programs in the United States have increasingly focused on two critical approaches: Learning at work and experience as education. Workforce development programs are increasingly aimed at making territories more competitive by strengthening labor markets and helping to meet the needs of employers in significant sectors of the economy. Workforce development in Upstate New York is an important step forward in preventing the region from lagging behind other regions in the country. In this paper, we examine the role of the Capital Region Workforce Investment Board, a local workforce improvement board under the supervision of the New York State Workforce Investment Board. Specifically, we evaluate the impacts of the new Capital Region Workforce Investment Board’s Program on the federally funded Workforce Investment Act of 1998 Adult Program priorities. Before-and-after analysis comparing the program outcomes in two four year periods, 2006–2009 and 2010–2013 are presented. The results of the new plan are mixed across several key performance indicators. Evidence shows that the new focuses increased the average earnings of program participants in a situation where employment rates decreased slightly. Significant industries for 2012–2022 are also reviewed.

scholarly journals Weakening resistance: Progress toward the low back merger in New York State

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron J. Dinkin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Northern Cities Shift ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
The Status ◽  
Northern Cities ◽  
Phonetic Distance ◽  
New Community

AbstractThis paper examines the status of the low back caught-cot merger in Upstate New York. Most of this region is subject to the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) and therefore, according to Labov, Ash, and Boberg (2006), ostensibly “resists” the spread of this merger. It is found that the phonology of this region is indeed trending toward the merger in apparent time, in terms of both phonetic distance between the two phonemes and speakers' explicit judgments. It is argued that the fronting of the cot vowel in the NCS region is not sufficient to withstand the spread of the merger because fronting a low vowel is a “reversible” sound change (Labov, 2010). It is further argued that the expansion of a merger to new communities may take place indirectly, through launching a sound change in the direction of merger rather than causing merger to take place immediately in the new community.

Syringe Disposal Among Injection Drug Users in Harlem and the Bronx During the New York State Expanded Syringe Access Demonstration Program

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 390-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles M. Cleland ◽  
Sherry Deren ◽  
Crystal M. Fuller ◽  
Shannon Blaney ◽  
James M. McMahon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Injection Drug Users ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
New York State ◽  
Injection Drug ◽  
Demonstration Program ◽  
Syringe Access ◽  
York State ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Syringe Disposal

Effective January 1, 2001, New York State enacted the Expanded Syringe Access Demonstration Program (ESAP), allowing syringes to be sold in pharmacies without a prescription or dispensed through doctors, hospitals, and clinics to adults. A concern in the assessment of ESAP is its effects on syringe disposal practices. Syringe use data regarding the last injection episode were combined from three projects ( N = 1,030) recruiting injection drug users. Disposal of syringes by methods known to be safe decreased significantly over time after the implementation of ESAP. Syringes obtained either from syringe exchange programs or ESAP sources were more likely to be disposed of safely than syringes obtained from other sources. Efforts to enlist pharmacists and others involved in ESAP implementation to encourage safe disposal are needed. More detailed information on disposal practices is needed to capture the continuum from least to most safe practices and variation within individuals.

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