Joseph Friedman

Joseph Friedman

University of California, Los Angeles

H-index: 31

North America-United States

About Joseph Friedman

Joseph Friedman, With an exceptional h-index of 31 and a recent h-index of 31 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, Los Angeles, specializes in the field of Social Medicine, Structural Violence, Substance Use, Mixed Methods.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Decreasing Stigma Toward People Who Inject Drugs: Harm Reduction Training for First-Year Medical Students

Trends in Deaths of Despair by Race and Ethnicity From 1999 to 2022

Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

Commentary on Copeland et al.: Does xylazine in the United Kingdom foreshadow a European synthetic polysubstance drug crisis?

The Overdose Crisis among US Adolescents

Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the …

Illicit Fentanyl Use Independently Predicts HCV Seroconversion Among a Cohort of People Who Inject Drugs in Tijuana and San Diego

Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the …

Joseph Friedman Information

University

Position

MD/PhD Student

Citations(all)

23258

Citations(since 2020)

17913

Cited By

9940

hIndex(all)

31

hIndex(since 2020)

31

i10Index(all)

42

i10Index(since 2020)

42

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Joseph Friedman Skills & Research Interests

Social Medicine

Structural Violence

Substance Use

Mixed Methods

Top articles of Joseph Friedman

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Decreasing Stigma Toward People Who Inject Drugs: Harm Reduction Training for First-Year Medical Students

Academic Medicine

Tucker Avra

Amanda Cowan

Joseph Friedman

Jack Fukushima

Andrew Nelson

...

2023/10/16

Trends in Deaths of Despair by Race and Ethnicity From 1999 to 2022

JAMA psychiatry

Joseph Friedman

Helena Hansen

2024/4/10

Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

Mirza Balaj

Claire A Henson

Amanda Aronsson

Aleksandr Aravkin

Kathryn Beck

...

2024/1/23

Commentary on Copeland et al.: Does xylazine in the United Kingdom foreshadow a European synthetic polysubstance drug crisis?

Addiction

Joseph R Friedman

2024/4/3

The Overdose Crisis among US Adolescents

The New England journal of medicine

Joseph Friedman

Scott E Hadland

2024/1/11

Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the …

The Lancet

Mohsen Naghavi

Kanyin Liane Ong

Amirali Aali

Hazim S Ababneh

Yohannes Habtegiorgis Abate

...

2024/4/3

Illicit Fentanyl Use Independently Predicts HCV Seroconversion Among a Cohort of People Who Inject Drugs in Tijuana and San Diego

medRxiv

Joseph R Friedman

Daniela Abramovitz

Britt Skaathun

Gudelia Rangel

Alicia Harvey-Vera

...

2024

Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the …

The Lancet

Austin E Schumacher

Hmwe Hmwe Kyu

Amirali Aali

Cristiana Abbafati

Jaffar Abbas

...

2024/3/11

Changes in injecting versus smoking heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine among people who inject drugs in San Diego, California, 2020 to 2023

medRxiv

William H Eger

Daniela Abramovitz

Angela R Bazzi

Annick Borquez

Carlos F Vera

...

2024

Looking Back on COVID-19 and the Evolving Drug Overdose Crisis: Updated Trends Through 2022

Joseph Friedman

2024/3

Deaths of despair and Indigenous data genocide

The Lancet

Joseph Friedman

Helena Hansen

Joseph P Gone

2023/1/25

Rethinking urban-rural designations in public health surveillance of the overdose crisis and crafting an agenda for future monitoring

International Journal of Drug Policy

Lauren Textor

Joseph Friedman

Philippe Bourgois

Shoshana Aronowitz

Caty Simon

...

2023/8/1

Medical Student–Led Initiative to Incorporate Harm Reduction into Medical School Curriculum

Academic Psychiatry

Tucker Avra

Amanda Cowan

Jack Fukushima

Joseph Friedman

2023/12

Commentary on Lim et al.: Mortality database linkages—A critical methodology to understand the structural drivers of the overdose crisis.

Addiction

Joseph Friedman

2023/3/1

Fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine-based counterfeit pills sold at tourist-oriented pharmacies in Mexico: an ethnographic and drug checking study

Drug and alcohol dependence

Joseph Friedman

Morgan Godvin

Caitlin Molina

Ruby Romero

Annick Borquez

...

2023/8/1

The emerging fentanyl–xylazine syndemic in the USA: challenges and future directions

The Lancet

David T Zhu

Joseph Friedman

Philippe Bourgois

Fernando Montero

Suzanne Tamang

2023/11/25

Substance use policy and practice in the COVID-19 pandemic: Learning from early pandemic responses through internationally comparative field data

Global Public Health

Shoshana V Aronowitz

Jennifer J Carroll

Helena Hansen

Marie Jauffret-Roustide

Caroline Mary Parker

...

2022/12/2

Recovery incentives program: California's contingency management benefit

Preventive Medicine

Thomas E Freese

Beth A Rutkowski

James A Peck

Darren Urada

H Westley Clark

...

2023/11/1

Longitudinal changes in co-involved drugs, comorbidities, and demographics of methamphetamine-related deaths in Los Angeles County

Joseph Friedman

Ruby Romero

Russell Buhr

Amber Tang

Jesus Medina

...

2023/8/1

Accompaniment on the edge: What can the US learn from Latin America about contested abortion care?

PLOS Global Public Health

Alhelí Calderón-Villarreal

Bianka Itzel Verduzco Carrasco

Joseph Friedman

Raffaela Schiavon

2023/5/22

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