A qualitative investigation into the effectiveness of a housing navigator program linking justice-involved clients with recovery housing.

Background: Roughly 24-36% of people who are incarcerated in the U.S. are formally diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD).

"A lot of moving parts": Recovery home challenges linking and housing individuals with criminal legal system involvement.

Introduction: There are high rates of substance use disorder (SUD) among people released from carceral settings and, upon release, many of these people also face unstable housing situations, posing challenges to connecting with resources to facilitate SUD recovery. Recovery homes provide a temporary sober living environment for those seeking both SUD recovery and transition back to the community after carceral release. However, successful recovery home placement for this population can prove difficult, and there is a need for research to identify ways to overcome them.

Challenges of implementing collaborative models of decision making with trans-identified patients.

Background: Factors health providers face during the doctor-patient encounter both impede and assist the development of collaborative models of treatment.

Objective: I investigated decision making among medical and therapeutic professionals who work with trans-identified patients to understand factors that might impede or facilitate the adoption of the collaborative decision-making model in their clinical work.

Design: Following a grounded theory approach, I collected and analysed data from semi-structured interviews with 10 U.

Knowledge legitimacy: how trans-patient behavior supports and challenges current medical knowledge.

In this article, I examine the accounts of transsexual/transgender patients and their involvement with medical professionals in the Midwestern United States. Data are taken from 22 in-depth interviews and one year of participant observation of three transsexual/transgender organizations. I show that trans-patients are made aware of larger political, religious, and cultural ideologies through their medical experiences.