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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1353829221001143 by Laura Kihlström 7/21 ScienceDirect] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1353829221001143 by Laura Kihlström 7/21 ScienceDirect] | ||
The United States lags in life expectancy compared to most of the world's similarly wealthy nations, driven by pronounced regional disparities particularly between the South and the rest of the country. The U.S. South has a violent history of lynchings of Black Americans by White mobs after the ending of slavery and up to the Civil Rights Era. | The United States lags in life expectancy compared to most of the world's similarly wealthy nations, driven by pronounced regional disparities particularly between the South and the rest of the country. The U.S. South has a violent history of lynchings of Black Americans by White mobs after the ending of slavery and up to the Civil Rights Era. | ||
=====Social vulnerabilities for substance use: Stressors, socially toxic environments, and discrimination and racism===== | |||
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390821000721 by Hortensia Amaro 1/5/21 ScienceDirect] | |||
Applying a social determinants of health framework, this review brings attention to evidence from social sciences and neuroscience on the role of selected social factors in individual and population-level vulnerability to substance use and substance use disorders (SUDs). The understanding that social vulnerability to substance use and SUDs is multifaceted and occurs across different levels of influence (individual, interpersonal, community, and societal) is underscored. | |||
