Medellin v. Dretke: Federalism and International Law

This is an edited version of a debate held at Columbia Law School on February 21, 2005

Multidimensional Recovery Among an Opioid Use Disorder Outpatient Treatment Population

Background: Given the current opioid crisis, recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD) warrants attention. SAMHSA’s working definition of recovery highlights dimensions that support recovery including health, home, community, and purpose. Recovery capital captures factors that support recovery within these dimensions and has been associated with recovery outcomes. Prior research highlights possible gender differences in recovery outcomes. Objective: 1) Describe and compare recovery capital among an OUD outpatient treatment population by gender; 2) Identify the relationship between recovery capital and length of time in treatment within this population. Methods: Patients (n=126) taking medication for OUD at a single outpatient substance use treatment clinic completed an electronic, cross-sectional survey (July-September 2019). The Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital (BARC-10) assessed recovery components. Length of current treatment episode was abstracted from Virginia’s Prescription Monitoring Program. Descriptive statistics were calculated. Chi square and Mann Whitney-U were used to test differences by gender. Multivariate linear regression was conducted. Results: Participants (n=126) were 45.3% men and 54.7% women. Most identified as Black (67.7%) and were single (69.0%). Compared to men, women were younger (38.8711.31 vs. 47.0712.12; p\u3c.001) and more likely to be unemployed (60.9% vs. 42.1%; p=.037). Mean BARC-10 score was 45.08 (9.73) and did not vary by gender. Several BARC-10 individual items within the purpose recovery dimension differed by gender (p\u3c.05). More social support was associated with higher BARC-10 score (p\u3c.001); length of treatment was not (p=.599). Conclusions: Recovery capital was high and gender differences minimal. Individuals receiving medication for OUD can initiate and sustain recovery.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/gradposters/1061/thumbnail.jp

Romans d’homme, voix de femme : « Marie Auger », Gilles Archambault, Jacques Poulin et Maxime Mongeon

Depuis quelques années, de nombreux romanciers masculins donnent la parole à une narratrice. S’agit-il d’un détournement de la voix féminine ou encore d’une ouverture nouvelle à l’autre ? À travers l’étude de quatre romans récents d’autant d’auteurs (« Marie Auger », Gilles Archambault, Jacques Poulin, Maxime Mongeon), le présent article examine les paradoxes et les multiples visages de cette pratique textuelle, qui a ceci de radical qu’elle remet en cause l’étanchéité de la frontière entre les sexes sur laquelle reposent l’organisation sociale et les valeurs symboliques traditionnelles.Over the past few years, many male novelists have given a voice to a female narrator. Is the female voice being hijacked, or is this a sign of a new openness to the other? Through the study of four recent novels by four different novelists (“Marie Auger,” Gilles Archambault, Jacques Poulin, Maxime Mongeon), this article examines the paradoxes and multiple aspects of a textual practice that is radical in that it challenges the watertight separation between the sexes that is the basis of our social organization and traditional symbolic values

Figures du père dans le cinéma québécois contemporain

Présente depuis longtemps dans le cinéma québécois, la relation père-enfant, et surtout père-fils, revient en force dans les années 2000. Grâce à l’analyse de six films, le présent article brosse un portrait de la représentation des pères et de la paternité, entre persistance des vieux schémas et images renouvelées. Il s’attarde tant aux promesses d’évolution — naissance d’une parole père-fils, images de réconciliation — qu’aux apories troublantes qui traversent le corpus (pères morts ou malades, mères marginalisées ou effacées, fils hésitant à devenir pères).Long a feature of Québec cinema, the father-child relationship returned in force during the 2000s. The present article analyzes six films to paint a portrait of the representation of fathers and fatherhood through the persistence of old schemas and renewed images. It dwells on the promises of evolution—the birth of a father-son speech, images of reconciliation—as well as the troubling aporias present throughout the corpus (sick or deceased fathers, marginalized or self-effacing mother, sons reluctant to become fathers)

« Ta mère est dans tes os » : Fae Myenne Ng et Amy Tan ou le passage des savoirs entre la Chine et l’Amérique

Deux romans de jeunes Chinoises-Américaines, Bone de Fae Myenne Ng et The joy Luck Club d'Amy Tan, illustrent à merveille une nouvelle tendance de la littérature américaine : l'émergence d'un nouveau corpus d'oeuvres rédigées en anglais par des immigrants de première ou de deuxième génération. Occupées à concilier un passé chinois qu'elles ne connaissent qu'à travers les récits de leurs parents et un présent américain dans lequel elles s'inscrivent en quelque sorte de biais, les protagonistes de ces romans ont à passer de la Chine à l'Amérique, du chinois à l'anglais, de l'oral à l'écrit. Il est également question de la manière dont le rapport à l'héritage chinois (et à la mère qui en est l'emblème) donne lieu à une construction identitaire complexe et mobile, le tout imprimant au roman sa forme particulière.Two novels by young Chinese-American women - Bone, by Fae Myenne Ng and The joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan -illustrate a new trend in American literature : writing in English by first and second-generation immigrants. Trying to make sense of a Chinese heritage known to them only at second hand and of an American present in which they are somewhat marginalized, they move from China to America, Chinese to English, oral to written forms. The article also considers how the relationship between the authors' Chinese heritage (and the mothers who exemplify that heritage) gives rise to a complex and ever-shifting identity, thus determining the form of the novel which records the process