Associate Professor
University of Maryland School of Social Work
University of Maryland School of Social Work
Baltimore, Maryland
Dr Unick is a behavioral health services and drug policy researcher who has 20 years of experience studying drug markets and their effect on community health, evaluating community behavioral health programs, and using advanced methodological approaches to understand complex social behavior. He has been a co-investigator on three NIDA R01 grants looking at how changes in the heroin market, heroin distribution, and opiate supply affect the health of injection drug users. The recent increase in fentanyl-related overdose deaths is an example of how the supply of drugs affects the health of injection drug users. While drug markets and illicit drug supply have obvious criminal justice implications his current work more explicitly links policing activity and drug markets. He is currently working on a project to understand how local Baltimore drug markets, 911 overdose calls, and overdose deaths are affected by policing and arrests.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Thursday, November 3, 2022
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM