Rachel Carmen Ceasar
Biographic Data
| ID | 89630 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Carmen Ceasar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel Carmen |
| FAMILY NAME | Ceasar |
| SIGNATURE | CEASAR R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8156-6898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“I’m Treated Way Differently”
Introduction This research aimed to understand the perspectives and experiences of pregnant individuals using cannabis as they navigate healthcare settings and their pregnancies. We applied the lens of the intersectional risk environment, a harm reduction framework which explores the ways that social locations and environmental factors combine to impact health and well-being.Methods Using qualitative, constructivist grounded theory methods, we co…
Housing and displacement as risk factors for negative health outcomes among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles, CA, and Denver, CO, USA
The United States is currently experiencing a housing and homelessness crisis. In response, many cities have adopted policies of displacement that move unhoused people from place to place. Recent research indicates that these policies may have negative health impacts on unhoused people who use drugs. We sought to examine health risks associated with forced displacement among unhoused people who inject drugs (PWID). We interviewed a community-recr…
Modelling how age-restricted location policies would impact tobacco retailer density in four US states
The degree of TRD reduction estimated by these simulation models for an ARL policy is more powerful than what has been found for other retailer-focused strategies (eg, prohibiting tobacco retailers close to schools). ARL policies could be a promising and potentially powerful strategy for reducing TRD in the USA
“It’s Not Just One Decision, It’s a Whole Lifestyle Change”
Background: Understanding socio-cultural factors associated with motivation to seek treatment is critical to addressing persistent mortality related to injection and opioid drug use. Objective: Using mixed methods, we examined factors associated with readiness to change substance use among structurally vulnerable people who inject drugs (PWID), recruited from Los Angeles and Denver (n = 472) between 2021 and 2022. Results: Readiness was categoriz…
Age Restricted Location Policies
Sleep Health among Community-Recruited Opioid-Using People Who Inject Drugs in Los Angeles, CA and Denver, CO
Chronic insufficient and poor-quality sleep are linked to hypertension, diabetes, depression, heart attack, and stroke. While studies on substance use and sleep typically focus on people in or entering treatment, there is a lack of research on sleep health among community-recruited people who inject drugs (PWID). To address this literature gap, we examined factors associated with insufficient and poor-quality sleep among community-recruited PWID.…
A chocolate cake or a chocolate vape? Young adults describe their relationship with food and weight in the context of nicotine vaping
Characterizing symptoms of e-cigarette dependence
In addition to nicotine dependence symptoms that have been characterized for other tobacco products, young adult e-cigarette users described unique symptoms of vaping dependence that necessitate the need for more refined measures. All dimensions of vaping dependence should be considered in discussions of policies as well as treatment and education efforts intended to protect young people from e-cigarette dependence
Factors associated with injury and blood-borne infection risk when providing assisted injection among people who inject drugs
Opioid pharmacovigilance
Kinship across conflict
In post-conflict countries, caring for the dead challenges how family kinship and national history are organised. The exhumation of unmarked mass graves following decolonisation, civil war, and other forms of violence and oppression is one way by which heritage managers reconfigure kinship and history in the aftermath of conflict. Where governments fail to identify and acknowledge the dead, archaeologists and other heritage managers use exhuming …
How I learned to love the bomb
This article analyses the human technology of affect in excavation work in contemporary Spain. While the government continues to avoid addressing crimes committed during the Civil War and the subsequent dictatorship, many Spaniards have taken it upon themselves to address the past. The setting is in Abánades, a right-wing pueblo destroyed in battle that rebuilt itself through the collecting and selling of battlefield scrap metal. Whereas some arc…
The Science and Soul of Exhumations
photo essay, circulation, exhumation, Spanish civil war, archaeology, forensic anthropology
Opioid pharmacovigilance
How I learned to love the bomb
This article analyses the human technology of affect in excavation work in contemporary Spain. While the government continues to avoid addressing crimes committed during the Civil War and the subsequent dictatorship, many Spaniards have taken it upon themselves to address the past. The setting is in Abánades, a right-wing pueblo destroyed in battle that rebuilt itself through the collecting and selling of battlefield scrap metal. Whereas some arc…
Kinship across conflict
In post-conflict countries, caring for the dead challenges how family kinship and national history are organised. The exhumation of unmarked mass graves following decolonisation, civil war, and other forms of violence and oppression is one way by which heritage managers reconfigure kinship and history in the aftermath of conflict. Where governments fail to identify and acknowledge the dead, archaeologists and other heritage managers use exhuming …
The Science and Soul of Exhumations
photo essay, circulation, exhumation, Spanish civil war, archaeology, forensic anthropology
Kinship across conflict
In post-conflict countries, caring for the dead challenges how family kinship and national history are organised. The exhumation of unmarked mass graves following decolonisation, civil war, and other forms of violence and oppression is one way by which heritage managers reconfigure kinship and history in the aftermath of conflict. Where governments fail to identify and acknowledge the dead, archaeologists and other heritage managers use exhuming …
How I learned to love the bomb
This article analyses the human technology of affect in excavation work in contemporary Spain. While the government continues to avoid addressing crimes committed during the Civil War and the subsequent dictatorship, many Spaniards have taken it upon themselves to address the past. The setting is in Abánades, a right-wing pueblo destroyed in battle that rebuilt itself through the collecting and selling of battlefield scrap metal. Whereas some arc…
Opioid pharmacovigilance
Characterizing symptoms of e-cigarette dependence
In addition to nicotine dependence symptoms that have been characterized for other tobacco products, young adult e-cigarette users described unique symptoms of vaping dependence that necessitate the need for more refined measures. All dimensions of vaping dependence should be considered in discussions of policies as well as treatment and education efforts intended to protect young people from e-cigarette dependence
Factors associated with injury and blood-borne infection risk when providing assisted injection among people who inject drugs
A chocolate cake or a chocolate vape? Young adults describe their relationship with food and weight in the context of nicotine vaping
Sleep Health among Community-Recruited Opioid-Using People Who Inject Drugs in Los Angeles, CA and Denver, CO
Chronic insufficient and poor-quality sleep are linked to hypertension, diabetes, depression, heart attack, and stroke. While studies on substance use and sleep typically focus on people in or entering treatment, there is a lack of research on sleep health among community-recruited people who inject drugs (PWID). To address this literature gap, we examined factors associated with insufficient and poor-quality sleep among community-recruited PWID.…
“It’s Not Just One Decision, It’s a Whole Lifestyle Change”
Background: Understanding socio-cultural factors associated with motivation to seek treatment is critical to addressing persistent mortality related to injection and opioid drug use. Objective: Using mixed methods, we examined factors associated with readiness to change substance use among structurally vulnerable people who inject drugs (PWID), recruited from Los Angeles and Denver (n = 472) between 2021 and 2022. Results: Readiness was categoriz…
Age Restricted Location Policies
“I’m Treated Way Differently”
Introduction This research aimed to understand the perspectives and experiences of pregnant individuals using cannabis as they navigate healthcare settings and their pregnancies. We applied the lens of the intersectional risk environment, a harm reduction framework which explores the ways that social locations and environmental factors combine to impact health and well-being.Methods Using qualitative, constructivist grounded theory methods, we co…
Housing and displacement as risk factors for negative health outcomes among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles, CA, and Denver, CO, USA
The United States is currently experiencing a housing and homelessness crisis. In response, many cities have adopted policies of displacement that move unhoused people from place to place. Recent research indicates that these policies may have negative health impacts on unhoused people who use drugs. We sought to examine health risks associated with forced displacement among unhoused people who inject drugs (PWID). We interviewed a community-recr…
Modelling how age-restricted location policies would impact tobacco retailer density in four US states
The degree of TRD reduction estimated by these simulation models for an ARL policy is more powerful than what has been found for other retailer-focused strategies (eg, prohibiting tobacco retailers close to schools). ARL policies could be a promising and potentially powerful strategy for reducing TRD in the USA
Medicine (7 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (4 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works)