Our colleagues at the are excited to be hosting their Seminar Series in their new home at the MidTown Collaboration Center! All attendees are encouraged to continue the conversation after the seminar at Black Frog Brewery!
Today's Speaker: Stephanie Pike Moore, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Since 2018, the availability of "gas station drugs"—or intoxicating consumer products (e.g., hemp-derived cannabinoids, kratom, 7-OH, and "shrooms")—has rapidly expanded across the United States. Efforts to regulate these substances have intensified but remain deeply contested, despite mounting concerns about their health impacts. In this presentation, we will discuss the social and regulatory contexts that provided fertile ground for the emergence of this new market, how commercial actors strategically leveraged these contexts to maximize profit, and the broader implications for public health and policy.
Address: MidTown Collaboration Center, 1974 E. 66th St. Room 306
🚗 Free parking is available behind the building. Enter the parking lot on E. 65th St.
Zoom link: https:/cwru.zoom.us/j/95620984603?pwd=zkP6H6lcNHnHxqoj7T7DHjd9LNPfOe.1
Dr. Pike Moore is a sociobehavioral epidemiologist. Her research is focused on the social, commercial, and regulatory determinants that shape polysubstance use behaviors applied particularly on under-regulated, legally nebulous intoxicating consumer products.