J M Ezell
Biographic Data
| ID | 43807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J M Ezell |
| GIVEN NAMES | J M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ezell |
| SIGNATURE | EZELL J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9884-7909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Experiences and Attitudes of Rural Black People who Use Drugs
Rural Black PWUD may experience complex early-life exposures to substance use and later-life challenges in terms of communal integration due to stigma and structural disenfranchisment. These dynamics may specifically prevent the manifestation of strong support networks and engagement with treatment and harm reduction
I Don’t Want to Shoot up the Meth Anymore: Pipe Distribution as a Harm Reduction Service for People Who Use Methamphetamine
BACKGROUND: Methamphetamine use is disproportionately high in rural settings, with rates increasing during the COVID-19 pandemic. While syringe service programs reduce disease transmission among people who inject drugs, limited research exists around the value of smoking equipment, specifically pipes, in minimizing harms associated with rural methamphetamine use. METHODS: We conducted semi-structured interviews with people who use methamphetamine…
PrEP-Related Medical, Structural and Institutional Mistrust among a Socioeconomically Diverse Sample of Black, Latine, Asian, and White Young Sexual Minority Men: Lived Experiences of Intersectional I…
Mistrust among marginalized populations has been shown to negatively impact health behaviors and outcomes. Young sexual minority men (YSMM) experience many health inequities, including those related to HIV. Understanding how YSMM think about and experience medical, structural, and institutional mistrust is critical to effectively promoting engagement in preventive services like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The study recruited 43 YSMM (ages 25…
Property insurance bluelining as a social determinant of health
Reimagining the Role of Communication in Medical Consensus to Address Medical Mistrust and Disinformation
Medical consensus is a critical element in deriving and substantiating evidence-based approaches to guide patient communication and care delivery. However, in recent years, mistrust in medicine—and in science more broadly—has deepened, driven in part by the recent politicization of public health guidance and the spread of disinformation, as well as by historically siloed and opaque public engagement practices. There has been limited critical anal…
Opioid use, prescribing and fatal overdose patterns among racial/ethnic minorities in the United States: A scoping review and conceptual risk environment model
Black girls don’t cry? Mental health, gender, and violence on the racialized periphery
Understanding Perceptions, Barriers, and Opportunities around Restorative Justice in Urban High Schools
A popular alternative disciplinary framework from zero-tolerance school policies is restorative justice, which refers to a set of ideologies and practices that emphasize healing relationships in lieu of community exclusion. This work investigates the differences between ideological support for restorative approaches compared to program implementation. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with school staff, including teachers, admin…
The Health Disparities Research Industrial Complex: Remastered
The Health Disparities Research Industrial Complex
Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice
The cultural dimensions of collective action during environmental hazards: Assessing race, gender, and social support network dynamics in the Flint Water Crisis
Opioid and polydrug use among rural sexual and gender minorities: Current knowledge and future directions
“Trickle-Down” Racial Empathy in American Higher Education: Moving Beyond Performative Wokeness and Academic Panels to Spark Racial Equity
Recent racial justice protests in response to police-related brutality in the U.S. illuminate tensions reflective of persistent power differentials and social and racial traumas of which the U.S. education system has played a pronounced role in both historically producing and, more recently, reproducing by trafficking in an ethos of “trickle-down” racial empathy. Asking questions of the reader, this reflection explores how institutions of higher …
A social history of opioids’ crimedical cycle
Historically, public and political discourse around people who nonmedically use opioids has largely been rendered via a deficits-oriented lens, presenting this population as weak, disinterested, and deviant, and thus undesirable and ill-positioned for wellness and communal integration. These narratives, and subsequent policies used to engage people who use opioids, are intermittently formed and disrupted by geopolitical changes, as public and ins…
Environmental health capital: A paradigm for environmental injustice prevention and truth and reconciliation
Environmental injustices, and their civic settlements, are often fomented as part of siloed decision-making processes undertaken by bureaucrats and community outsiders. Accordingly, purposeful and affirming movements towards environmental health, and truth and reconciliation, are frequently stalled. By ignoring, or downplaying, the broad, destructive consequences of environmental injustice, institutional responses to environmental disasters furth…
Approaches to Addressing Nonmedical Services and Care Coordination Needs for Older Adults
OBJECTIVE: Non-medical services care coordination for daily activities of living is crucial in improving older adults' health and enabling them to age in place, but little is known about specific practices and barriers in this space. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 41 professionals serving older adults in greater Chicago, Illinois-which consists of diverse urban, suburban, and semi-rural communities-to contextualize non-me…
Child Lead Screening Behaviors and Health Outcomes Following the Flint Water Crisis
Defining and finding an endgame in education on race
Long regarded as the “great equalizer” across all social identity categories, including race/ethnicity, class, and gender, the education system plays a pronounced role in the curation and dissemination of knowledge on social stratification. In contemporary times, this role is perhaps no more evident than in academia’s gatekeeping role in discussions of race and racism. Contemporary racial injustice in the U.S. provides raw material for considerat…
The racial and cultural ecology of home and community-based services for diverse older adults
The stigma system: How sociopolitical domination, scapegoating, and stigma shape public health
Stigma is a fundamental driver of adverse health outcomes. Although stigma is often studied at the individual level to focus on how stigma influences the mental and physical health of the stigmatized, considerable research has shown that stigma is multilevel and structural. This paper proposes a theoretical approach that synthesizes the literature on stigma with the literature on scapegoating and divide‐and‐rule as strategies that the wealthy and…
Theorizing on neo public assistance: How do race and class impact resource uptake and behavior following disaster
A Sociology of Empathy and Shared Understandings: Contextualizing Beliefs and Attitudes on Why People Use Opioids
There has been a steep rise in overdoses and mortality among people who use opioids or who inject drugs (PWUD), including in North America, the United Kingdom, and parts of Eastern Europe, with some of the sharpest increases amassing in rural communities. Currently, the literature lacks a comparative focus on the views and experiences of rural PWUD and professionals who regularly work and interface with them, in terms of their understandings of t…
You're friends until everybody runs out of dope: A framework for understanding tie meaning, purpose, and value in social networks
Understanding the Situational Context for Interpersonal Violence: A Review of Individual-Level Attitudes, Attributions, and Triggers
Research conducted with violent offenders demonstrates an overwhelming tendency for individuals in this population to frame their violent acts as tuned responses to perceived slights ranging from verbal insults to ostensibly nonviolent physical actions. To date, no review has characterized and categorized specific situational cues that are associated with interpersonal violence/ideation. Here, literature addressing attitudes, attributions, and tr…
Stigmatize the use, not the user? Attitudes on opioid use, drug injection, treatment, and overdose prevention in rural communities
The stigma system: How sociopolitical domination, scapegoating, and stigma shape public health
Stigma is a fundamental driver of adverse health outcomes. Although stigma is often studied at the individual level to focus on how stigma influences the mental and physical health of the stigmatized, considerable research has shown that stigma is multilevel and structural. This paper proposes a theoretical approach that synthesizes the literature on stigma with the literature on scapegoating and divide‐and‐rule as strategies that the wealthy and…
How urban and rural built environments influence the health attitudes and behaviors of people who use drugs
A Population-Based Assessment of Physical Symptoms and Mental Health Outcomes Among Adults Following the Flint Water Crisis
Understanding Perceptions, Barriers, and Opportunities around Restorative Justice in Urban High Schools
A popular alternative disciplinary framework from zero-tolerance school policies is restorative justice, which refers to a set of ideologies and practices that emphasize healing relationships in lieu of community exclusion. This work investigates the differences between ideological support for restorative approaches compared to program implementation. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with school staff, including teachers, admin…
You're friends until everybody runs out of dope: A framework for understanding tie meaning, purpose, and value in social networks
Are skin color and body mass index associated with social network structure? Findings from a male sex market study
Objectives: There is a growing burden of HIV and sex-related diseases in South Asia and India. Sociological research illustrates that key axes of social stratification, such as race and ethnicity, affect social network structure which, in turn, impacts sexual health and wellbeing. Research on networks has increasingly begun to examine the ways in which networks drive or harness sexual behaviors, but has largely neglected the influence of culture …
Measuring Recurring Stigma in the Lives of Individuals with Mental Illness
Measuring Recurring Stigma in the Lives of Individuals with Mental Illness
Implementing Trauma-Informed Practice in Juvenile Justice Systems: What can Courts Learn from Child Welfare Interventions
Are skin color and body mass index associated with social network structure? Findings from a male sex market study
Objectives: There is a growing burden of HIV and sex-related diseases in South Asia and India. Sociological research illustrates that key axes of social stratification, such as race and ethnicity, affect social network structure which, in turn, impacts sexual health and wellbeing. Research on networks has increasingly begun to examine the ways in which networks drive or harness sexual behaviors, but has largely neglected the influence of culture …
“They look at us like junkies”: Influences of drug use stigma on the healthcare engagement of people who inject drugs in New York City
Breaching Trust: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Experiences of People Who Use Drugs in a Rural Setting
Background: Increased drug use has disproportionately impacted rural areas across the U.S. People who use drugs are at risk of overdose and other medical complications, including infectious diseases. Understanding barriers to healthcare access for this often stigmatized population is key to reducing morbidity and mortality, particularly in rural settings where resources may be limited. Methods: We conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with peop…
Understanding the Situational Context for Interpersonal Violence: A Review of Individual-Level Attitudes, Attributions, and Triggers
Research conducted with violent offenders demonstrates an overwhelming tendency for individuals in this population to frame their violent acts as tuned responses to perceived slights ranging from verbal insults to ostensibly nonviolent physical actions. To date, no review has characterized and categorized specific situational cues that are associated with interpersonal violence/ideation. Here, literature addressing attitudes, attributions, and tr…
Covid‐19 During the Opioid Epidemic – Exacerbation of Stigma and Vulnerabilities
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event in modern American history. It has the potential to impact nearly every American community significantly regardless of its size. As of this writing (1 PM CST; 31 March 2020), the United States has had 174,467 confirmed cases and 3,461 deaths associated with COVID-19.1 A majority of the states are in some form of “lockdown” to increase social isolation in order to flatten the infection curve and fore…
Empathy plasticity: Decolonizing and reorganizing Wikipedia and other online spaces to address racial equity
The spring of 2020 represented a watershed-moment-in-the-making, as broad, inclusive discussions on how to best cultivate discursive and policy mechanisms towards racial equity presaged a reckoning with America’s vast ethnoracial disparities. However, many of the remediatory actions proposed and thus far implemented have failed to address historic, epistemologically-embedded forms of racism that anchor and validate repressive informatics structur…
How urban and rural built environments influence the health attitudes and behaviors of people who use drugs
A Population-Based Assessment of Physical Symptoms and Mental Health Outcomes Among Adults Following the Flint Water Crisis
Stigmatize the use, not the user? Attitudes on opioid use, drug injection, treatment, and overdose prevention in rural communities
Environmental health capital: A paradigm for environmental injustice prevention and truth and reconciliation
Environmental injustices, and their civic settlements, are often fomented as part of siloed decision-making processes undertaken by bureaucrats and community outsiders. Accordingly, purposeful and affirming movements towards environmental health, and truth and reconciliation, are frequently stalled. By ignoring, or downplaying, the broad, destructive consequences of environmental injustice, institutional responses to environmental disasters furth…
Approaches to Addressing Nonmedical Services and Care Coordination Needs for Older Adults
OBJECTIVE: Non-medical services care coordination for daily activities of living is crucial in improving older adults' health and enabling them to age in place, but little is known about specific practices and barriers in this space. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 41 professionals serving older adults in greater Chicago, Illinois-which consists of diverse urban, suburban, and semi-rural communities-to contextualize non-me…
Child Lead Screening Behaviors and Health Outcomes Following the Flint Water Crisis
Defining and finding an endgame in education on race
Long regarded as the “great equalizer” across all social identity categories, including race/ethnicity, class, and gender, the education system plays a pronounced role in the curation and dissemination of knowledge on social stratification. In contemporary times, this role is perhaps no more evident than in academia’s gatekeeping role in discussions of race and racism. Contemporary racial injustice in the U.S. provides raw material for considerat…
The racial and cultural ecology of home and community-based services for diverse older adults
The stigma system: How sociopolitical domination, scapegoating, and stigma shape public health
Stigma is a fundamental driver of adverse health outcomes. Although stigma is often studied at the individual level to focus on how stigma influences the mental and physical health of the stigmatized, considerable research has shown that stigma is multilevel and structural. This paper proposes a theoretical approach that synthesizes the literature on stigma with the literature on scapegoating and divide‐and‐rule as strategies that the wealthy and…
Theorizing on neo public assistance: How do race and class impact resource uptake and behavior following disaster
A Sociology of Empathy and Shared Understandings: Contextualizing Beliefs and Attitudes on Why People Use Opioids
There has been a steep rise in overdoses and mortality among people who use opioids or who inject drugs (PWUD), including in North America, the United Kingdom, and parts of Eastern Europe, with some of the sharpest increases amassing in rural communities. Currently, the literature lacks a comparative focus on the views and experiences of rural PWUD and professionals who regularly work and interface with them, in terms of their understandings of t…
You're friends until everybody runs out of dope: A framework for understanding tie meaning, purpose, and value in social networks
The cultural dimensions of collective action during environmental hazards: Assessing race, gender, and social support network dynamics in the Flint Water Crisis
Opioid and polydrug use among rural sexual and gender minorities: Current knowledge and future directions
“Trickle-Down” Racial Empathy in American Higher Education: Moving Beyond Performative Wokeness and Academic Panels to Spark Racial Equity
Recent racial justice protests in response to police-related brutality in the U.S. illuminate tensions reflective of persistent power differentials and social and racial traumas of which the U.S. education system has played a pronounced role in both historically producing and, more recently, reproducing by trafficking in an ethos of “trickle-down” racial empathy. Asking questions of the reader, this reflection explores how institutions of higher …
A social history of opioids’ crimedical cycle
Historically, public and political discourse around people who nonmedically use opioids has largely been rendered via a deficits-oriented lens, presenting this population as weak, disinterested, and deviant, and thus undesirable and ill-positioned for wellness and communal integration. These narratives, and subsequent policies used to engage people who use opioids, are intermittently formed and disrupted by geopolitical changes, as public and ins…
Opioid use, prescribing and fatal overdose patterns among racial/ethnic minorities in the United States: A scoping review and conceptual risk environment model
Psychology (26 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (10 works) · Criminology (9 works)