Pedro Mateu-Gelabert
Biographic Data
| ID | 215431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pedro Mateu-Gelabert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pedro |
| FAMILY NAME | Mateu-Gelabert |
| SIGNATURE | MATEU-GELABERT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Samuel R. Friedman, Suzan M. Walters, and Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot are with the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy and Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY. Ashly E. Jordan, David C. Perlman, and Pedro Mateu-Gelabert are with the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research, New York, NY. Georgios K. Nikolopoulos is with the Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. Diana Rossi is a retired professor and researcher, and a founding member and consultant |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Overdoses with Xylazine and Fentanyl Recorded in Pennsylvania’s Overdose Information Network
This study explored whether law enforcement/first responder-reported fentanyl overdose response actions (such as administration of the opioid overdose reversal agent naloxone) differed between overdoses in which xylazine was, versus was not, suspected to be co-involved. Data were drawn from the Pennsylvania State Police's Overdose Information Network (ODIN) for 11,478 suspected fentanyl-involved overdoses, 137 reportedly co-involving xylazine, re…
Dialectical Processes of Health Framework as an Alternative to Social Determinants of Health Framework
The social determinants of health (SDOH) framework has proven useful for research and practice in addressing the social causes of many health outcomes. However, its limitations may restrict its value as the world undergoes rapid ecological and social change. We argue that SDOH does not adequately incorporate rapidly changing or “far upstream” social processes (particularly social movements), the dialectics of social conflict and creative social i…
Mental Health Concerns During Covid-19
Mental Health Service Use, Barriers, and Service Preferences During Covid-19 among Low-Income Housing and Market-Rate Housing Residents of Harlem in New York City
Syndemic factors associated with non-fatal overdose among young opioid users in New York City
Introduction: Rates of illicit opioid use are particularly high among young adults, yet research on overdose experience and factors associated with overdose in this population remains limited. This study examines the experiences and correlates of non-fatal overdose among young adults using illicit opioids in New York City (NYC). Methods: 539 participants were recruited via Respondent-Driven Sampling in 2014-2016. Eligibility criteria included: ag…
Substance Use Patterns and Their Association with Depression and Social Factors During Covid-19 Among Harlem Residents in New York City
This study aimed to identify the prevalence of substance use before and during COVID-19; and examined its association with depression and social factors among 437 residents from the neighborhood of Harlem in Northern Manhattan, New York City. Over a third of respondents reported using any substance before COVID-19, and initiating/increasing substance use during COVID-19. The most common substances used before COVID-19 and initiated/increased duri…
Hepatitis C virus risk among young people who inject drugs
Background Injection drug use (IDU) is the leading risk factor for hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in the U.S. While the general risk factors for HCV transmission are known, there is limited work on how these factors interact and impact young people who inject drugs (YPWID). Methods Project data were drawn from a study of 539 New York City (NYC) residents ages 18-29 who were recruited via Respondent-Driven Sampling and, reported past-month n…
Lessons from the First Wave of Covid-19 for Improved Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (Moud) Treatment
Background Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) are associated with important public health benefits. Program changes implemented in response to COVID-19 hold promise as ongoing strategies to improve MOUD treatment. Methods: MOUD patients on buprenorphine or methadone, providers, government regulators, and persons who use drugs not in MOUD were recruited in the Northeast region of the United States between June and October of 2020 via adver…
The Opioid/Overdose Crisis as a Dialectics of Pain, Despair, and One-Sided Struggle
The opioid/overdose crisis in the United States and Canada has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and has become a major field for research and interventions. It has embroiled pharmaceutical companies in lawsuits and possible bankruptcy filings. Effective interventions and policies toward this and future drug-related outbreaks may be improved by understanding the sociostructural roots of this outbreak. Much of the literature on roots of the o…
Contact tracing for hepatitis C
Perceived Risk of Heroin in Relation to Other Drug Use in a Representative US Sample
Low perception of risk is a risk factor for heroin use. Research is needed to determine whether this risk factor for heroin use is affected by the use of other drugs. Data were analyzed from participants in the 2015/2016 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health who denied lifetime heroin use ( N = 110,102). We examined how recency of use of various drugs and number of drugs used relate to perceptions that using heroin is not a great risk. Results …
Heroin Use and Drug Injection among Youth Also Misusing Prescription Drugs
Public health programming focused on reducing prescription drug misuse also may reduce youth engagement in heroin and/or injection drug use. Preventive efforts to support communities of color in reducing rates of prescription drug misuse are crucial
Prevalence of hepatitis C virus in young people who inject drugs in four Colombian cities
High enhancer, downer, withdrawal helper
Recurring Epidemics of Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in America
Observers describe today’s “epidemic” of pharmaceutical drug abuse as a recent phenomenon, but we argue that it is only the most recent of three waves stretching back more than a century. During each wave, policies have followed a similar pattern: voluntary educational campaigns, followed by supply-side policing and—sometimes—public health responses that would today be understood as “harm reduction.” These experiences suggest that only broad-base…
High risk and little knowledge
Group sex events amongst non-gay drug users
Incarceration, Sex With an STI- or HIV-Infected Partner, and Infection With an STI or HIV in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Objectives. We examined the link between incarceration and sexually transmitted infection (STI), including HIV, from a social network perspective. Methods. We used data collected during a social network study conducted in Brooklyn, NY (n = 343), to measure associations between incarceration and infection with herpes simplex virus-2, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis or HIV and sex with an infected partner, adjusting for characteristics of respon…
Strategies to avoid opiate withdrawal
Positive deviance control-case life history
We have identified strategies and tactics that some doubly-uninfected IDUs have developed to stay safe. Staying Safe methodology develops grounded hypotheses. These can be tested through cohort studies of incidence and prevention trials of hypothesis-based programs to help drug injectors make their injection and sexual careers safer for themselves and others. This positive deviance control-case life history method might be used to study avoiding …
For the common good
People in high-risk neighbourhoods try to protect their friends, neighbours, relatives and others from the social and physical risks associated with sex and drug use. This paper develops and validates a community-grounded questionnaire to measure such 'intravention' (health-directed efforts to protect others). An initial ethnography, including life-history interviews and focus groups, explored the forms of intravention activities engaged in by re…
How can hepatitis C be prevented in the long term
Urging Others to be Healthy
"Intravention," prevention activities that are conducted by and sustained through ongoing actions of members of communities-at-risk, is an appropriate goal for HIV intervention activities. Data from 120 injection drug users in a Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood that has seen decreases in HIV prevalence among IDUs and little HIV diffusion to young adults indicate that most of them have recently (3 months) urged other people to engage in one or mor…
Incarceration, Sex With an STI- or HIV-Infected Partner, and Infection With an STI or HIV in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Objectives. We examined the link between incarceration and sexually transmitted infection (STI), including HIV, from a social network perspective. Methods. We used data collected during a social network study conducted in Brooklyn, NY (n = 343), to measure associations between incarceration and infection with herpes simplex virus-2, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis or HIV and sex with an infected partner, adjusting for characteristics of respon…
Recurring Epidemics of Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in America
Observers describe today’s “epidemic” of pharmaceutical drug abuse as a recent phenomenon, but we argue that it is only the most recent of three waves stretching back more than a century. During each wave, policies have followed a similar pattern: voluntary educational campaigns, followed by supply-side policing and—sometimes—public health responses that would today be understood as “harm reduction.” These experiences suggest that only broad-base…
For the common good
People in high-risk neighbourhoods try to protect their friends, neighbours, relatives and others from the social and physical risks associated with sex and drug use. This paper develops and validates a community-grounded questionnaire to measure such 'intravention' (health-directed efforts to protect others). An initial ethnography, including life-history interviews and focus groups, explored the forms of intravention activities engaged in by re…
Urging Others to be Healthy
"Intravention," prevention activities that are conducted by and sustained through ongoing actions of members of communities-at-risk, is an appropriate goal for HIV intervention activities. Data from 120 injection drug users in a Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood that has seen decreases in HIV prevalence among IDUs and little HIV diffusion to young adults indicate that most of them have recently (3 months) urged other people to engage in one or mor…
How can hepatitis C be prevented in the long term
Positive deviance control-case life history
We have identified strategies and tactics that some doubly-uninfected IDUs have developed to stay safe. Staying Safe methodology develops grounded hypotheses. These can be tested through cohort studies of incidence and prevention trials of hypothesis-based programs to help drug injectors make their injection and sexual careers safer for themselves and others. This positive deviance control-case life history method might be used to study avoiding …
For the common good
People in high-risk neighbourhoods try to protect their friends, neighbours, relatives and others from the social and physical risks associated with sex and drug use. This paper develops and validates a community-grounded questionnaire to measure such 'intravention' (health-directed efforts to protect others). An initial ethnography, including life-history interviews and focus groups, explored the forms of intravention activities engaged in by re…
Strategies to avoid opiate withdrawal
Group sex events amongst non-gay drug users
Incarceration, Sex With an STI- or HIV-Infected Partner, and Infection With an STI or HIV in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Objectives. We examined the link between incarceration and sexually transmitted infection (STI), including HIV, from a social network perspective. Methods. We used data collected during a social network study conducted in Brooklyn, NY (n = 343), to measure associations between incarceration and infection with herpes simplex virus-2, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis or HIV and sex with an infected partner, adjusting for characteristics of respon…
High risk and little knowledge
Recurring Epidemics of Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in America
Observers describe today’s “epidemic” of pharmaceutical drug abuse as a recent phenomenon, but we argue that it is only the most recent of three waves stretching back more than a century. During each wave, policies have followed a similar pattern: voluntary educational campaigns, followed by supply-side policing and—sometimes—public health responses that would today be understood as “harm reduction.” These experiences suggest that only broad-base…
High enhancer, downer, withdrawal helper
Heroin Use and Drug Injection among Youth Also Misusing Prescription Drugs
Public health programming focused on reducing prescription drug misuse also may reduce youth engagement in heroin and/or injection drug use. Preventive efforts to support communities of color in reducing rates of prescription drug misuse are crucial
Prevalence of hepatitis C virus in young people who inject drugs in four Colombian cities
Contact tracing for hepatitis C
Perceived Risk of Heroin in Relation to Other Drug Use in a Representative US Sample
Low perception of risk is a risk factor for heroin use. Research is needed to determine whether this risk factor for heroin use is affected by the use of other drugs. Data were analyzed from participants in the 2015/2016 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health who denied lifetime heroin use ( N = 110,102). We examined how recency of use of various drugs and number of drugs used relate to perceptions that using heroin is not a great risk. Results …
The Opioid/Overdose Crisis as a Dialectics of Pain, Despair, and One-Sided Struggle
The opioid/overdose crisis in the United States and Canada has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and has become a major field for research and interventions. It has embroiled pharmaceutical companies in lawsuits and possible bankruptcy filings. Effective interventions and policies toward this and future drug-related outbreaks may be improved by understanding the sociostructural roots of this outbreak. Much of the literature on roots of the o…
Hepatitis C virus risk among young people who inject drugs
Background Injection drug use (IDU) is the leading risk factor for hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in the U.S. While the general risk factors for HCV transmission are known, there is limited work on how these factors interact and impact young people who inject drugs (YPWID). Methods Project data were drawn from a study of 539 New York City (NYC) residents ages 18-29 who were recruited via Respondent-Driven Sampling and, reported past-month n…
Lessons from the First Wave of Covid-19 for Improved Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (Moud) Treatment
Background Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) are associated with important public health benefits. Program changes implemented in response to COVID-19 hold promise as ongoing strategies to improve MOUD treatment. Methods: MOUD patients on buprenorphine or methadone, providers, government regulators, and persons who use drugs not in MOUD were recruited in the Northeast region of the United States between June and October of 2020 via adver…
Syndemic factors associated with non-fatal overdose among young opioid users in New York City
Introduction: Rates of illicit opioid use are particularly high among young adults, yet research on overdose experience and factors associated with overdose in this population remains limited. This study examines the experiences and correlates of non-fatal overdose among young adults using illicit opioids in New York City (NYC). Methods: 539 participants were recruited via Respondent-Driven Sampling in 2014-2016. Eligibility criteria included: ag…
Substance Use Patterns and Their Association with Depression and Social Factors During Covid-19 Among Harlem Residents in New York City
This study aimed to identify the prevalence of substance use before and during COVID-19; and examined its association with depression and social factors among 437 residents from the neighborhood of Harlem in Northern Manhattan, New York City. Over a third of respondents reported using any substance before COVID-19, and initiating/increasing substance use during COVID-19. The most common substances used before COVID-19 and initiated/increased duri…
Mental Health Service Use, Barriers, and Service Preferences During Covid-19 among Low-Income Housing and Market-Rate Housing Residents of Harlem in New York City
Overdoses with Xylazine and Fentanyl Recorded in Pennsylvania’s Overdose Information Network
This study explored whether law enforcement/first responder-reported fentanyl overdose response actions (such as administration of the opioid overdose reversal agent naloxone) differed between overdoses in which xylazine was, versus was not, suspected to be co-involved. Data were drawn from the Pennsylvania State Police's Overdose Information Network (ODIN) for 11,478 suspected fentanyl-involved overdoses, 137 reportedly co-involving xylazine, re…
Dialectical Processes of Health Framework as an Alternative to Social Determinants of Health Framework
The social determinants of health (SDOH) framework has proven useful for research and practice in addressing the social causes of many health outcomes. However, its limitations may restrict its value as the world undergoes rapid ecological and social change. We argue that SDOH does not adequately incorporate rapidly changing or “far upstream” social processes (particularly social movements), the dialectics of social conflict and creative social i…
Mental Health Concerns During Covid-19
Medicine (22 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (12 works) · Internal Medicine (10 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (10 works) · Demography (8 works) · Drug (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Family medicine (7 works) · Gerontology (7 works)