Martin Iguchi, Ph.D.

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UCLA School of Public Health
650 Charles E. Young Drive S.
61-254 CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES

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Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation; Professor of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Criminal justice system and drugs; Drug policy; Drugs and child welfare; Health disparities associated with criminalization of drug use; HIV/AIDS; Mental health; Substance abuse and treatment. Proposition 36 (treatment before prison for nonviolent drug offenders); developing a community network to support the child welfare system; study on the sexual transmission of HIV from drug users to non-drug users; improving treatment for drug users; examining the impact of incarceration on minority drug offenders and their families.

Publications:

H. Amaro and M. Y. Iguchi "Opportunities in Hispanic Drug Abuse Research". Drug and Alcohol Dependence ; .

M. Y. Iguchi How Criminal System Racial Disparities May Translate into Health Disparities. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2005; 16(4): Suppl B.

S. Ridgely and M. Y. Iguchi Vaccines Against Drug Addiction: Is Coercion Permissible and Is It Good Public Policy?. Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 2004; 12(2): .

Iguchi MY, London JA, Forge NG, Hickman L, Fain T, Riehman K. Elements of well-being affected by criminalizing the drug user. Public Health Rep. 2002; 117(Suppl 1): S146-50.

Iguchi MY. Drug abuse treatment as HIV prevention: changes in social drug use patterns might also reduce risk. J Addict Dis. 1998; 17(4): 9-18.

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