Samuel Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 5856916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-0024-7191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reclaiming online gaming for men's mental health
This commentary examines how strategies used to address workplace bullying and harassment can be adapted to reduce toxic behaviours in multiplayer gaming environments. For many boys and men, online gaming is one of the few accessible spaces for connection and community. When these environments are dominated by aggression and exclusion, they risk reinforcing the very dynamics that contribute to isolation and distress. By drawing on organisational …
The Impact of the US Drug War on People of Color
This chapter surveys three facets of the US war on drugs and its effects on communities of color. The first is how sentencing reforms from the 1960s on (mandatory minimums, stronger punitive drug laws) contributed to the rise of today’s mass incarceration crisis. Second is what scholars term the “collateral effects” of the drug war, including material impacts on wealth and assets, structural effects on communities of color (such as social punishm…
The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease
As an international network of historians and social scientists who study approaches to the management of drugs across time and place, we have noticed the effort to redefine addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease (CRBD). The CRBD model is promoted as a route to destigmatize addiction and to empower individuals to access treatment that works within that model’s terms.1 CRBD usefully recognizes that brain-based neural adaptations place ind…
Partnering with African American Churches to Create a Community Coalition for Mental Health
Community partnered participatory research (CPPR) emphasizes community engagement, respect, and empowerment as guiding principles to promote mental health equity. This article describes the "Vision" stage of a CPPR-informed model to implement evidence-based practices for depression in two African American churches in Harlem, New York. Essential parts of the Vision include engagement of stakeholders and collaborative planning. The engagement proce…
Guerre à la drogue, guerre raciale
International audience
Rehabilitation” as Boundary Object
In the 1950s and early 1960s, a growing coalition of volunteer neighborhoods-based organizations emerged in New York and other U.S. cities that addressed youthful drug use through casework, individual and family outreach and counseling, hospital placement, or religious counseling. Tied to the nascent field of addiction social work and social science research, organizations such as the East Harlem Protestant Parish’s Narcotics Committee developed …
Infectious Fear
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis (TB) ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. This book examines how individuals and institutions—black and white, public and private—responded to the challenges of TB in a segregated society. It explains that reactionary wh…
Kelly Miller and Thomas Dixon, Jr. on Blacks in American Civilization
The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease
As an international network of historians and social scientists who study approaches to the management of drugs across time and place, we have noticed the effort to redefine addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease (CRBD). The CRBD model is promoted as a route to destigmatize addiction and to empower individuals to access treatment that works within that model’s terms.1 CRBD usefully recognizes that brain-based neural adaptations place ind…
Rehabilitation” as Boundary Object
In the 1950s and early 1960s, a growing coalition of volunteer neighborhoods-based organizations emerged in New York and other U.S. cities that addressed youthful drug use through casework, individual and family outreach and counseling, hospital placement, or religious counseling. Tied to the nascent field of addiction social work and social science research, organizations such as the East Harlem Protestant Parish’s Narcotics Committee developed …
Kelly Miller and Thomas Dixon, Jr. on Blacks in American Civilization
Infectious Fear
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis (TB) ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. This book examines how individuals and institutions—black and white, public and private—responded to the challenges of TB in a segregated society. It explains that reactionary wh…
Rehabilitation” as Boundary Object
In the 1950s and early 1960s, a growing coalition of volunteer neighborhoods-based organizations emerged in New York and other U.S. cities that addressed youthful drug use through casework, individual and family outreach and counseling, hospital placement, or religious counseling. Tied to the nascent field of addiction social work and social science research, organizations such as the East Harlem Protestant Parish’s Narcotics Committee developed …
Guerre à la drogue, guerre raciale
International audience
Partnering with African American Churches to Create a Community Coalition for Mental Health
Community partnered participatory research (CPPR) emphasizes community engagement, respect, and empowerment as guiding principles to promote mental health equity. This article describes the "Vision" stage of a CPPR-informed model to implement evidence-based practices for depression in two African American churches in Harlem, New York. Essential parts of the Vision include engagement of stakeholders and collaborative planning. The engagement proce…
The Impact of the US Drug War on People of Color
This chapter surveys three facets of the US war on drugs and its effects on communities of color. The first is how sentencing reforms from the 1960s on (mandatory minimums, stronger punitive drug laws) contributed to the rise of today’s mass incarceration crisis. Second is what scholars term the “collateral effects” of the drug war, including material impacts on wealth and assets, structural effects on communities of color (such as social punishm…
The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease
As an international network of historians and social scientists who study approaches to the management of drugs across time and place, we have noticed the effort to redefine addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease (CRBD). The CRBD model is promoted as a route to destigmatize addiction and to empower individuals to access treatment that works within that model’s terms.1 CRBD usefully recognizes that brain-based neural adaptations place ind…
Reclaiming online gaming for men's mental health
This commentary examines how strategies used to address workplace bullying and harassment can be adapted to reduce toxic behaviours in multiplayer gaming environments. For many boys and men, online gaming is one of the few accessible spaces for connection and community. When these environments are dominated by aggression and exclusion, they risk reinforcing the very dynamics that contribute to isolation and distress. By drawing on organisational …
Political science (5 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Addiction (2 works)