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1. What Happens When a Pandemic Intersects With an Epidemic? (Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco)

   Persons experiencing addiction may be at very high risk of infectious disease like COVID-19 due to high rates of smoking, recent imprisonment, conditions like HIV/AIDS, and high-risk behaviors (Ezzati et al. 2002; Farhoudian, et al. 2020). During the COVID-19 pandemic, most courts have shuttered, and treatment center admissions have halted, yet the opioid crisis rages on. Addiction intersects with material hardship, trauma, broken institutions, and human frailty in a multidimensional web of disadvantage (Desmond and Western 2018)—a process illustrated by COVID-19. 

2. Richard Carpiano and Brian Kelly to Lead JHSB

   The editorship of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior (JHSB), the ASA’s premier general medical sociology journal, will transition at the end of this year from Gilbert Gee to Richard Carpiano and Brian Kelly.

3. Journal of Health and Social Behavior: Forty Years of Medical Sociology

   Journal of Health and Social Behavior: Forty Years of Medical Sociology

4. Contexts: Loving and Leaving

   Contexts
   Fall 2017 Vol. 16 No. 4
   
   Feature articles include "Virginia is for Lovers", "Marijuana’s Moral Entrepreneurs, Then and Now", "Commuter Spouses and the Changing American Family", "The Queer Work of Militarized Prides", "Accountability after Genocide", and "Race, Class, and the Framing of Drug Epidemics."