York Office Research Articles

Watch those OD numbers!

In a comment entitled “the new math,” Rob Kent, former general counsel for the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy, and before that general counsel for the New York Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS), sent us this.

대만의 외교정책 과정 내 관념, 이익, 제도(3i)의 역할 연구

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been established as a universal objective for humanity to achieve by 2030, with broad consensus from the international community. Most countries are taking proactive steps to implement the SDGs by assessing their own performance against the recommended standards of the UN High-level Political Forum (HLPF) and subsequently publishing Voluntary National Review Reports (VNRs). An intriguing case arises when examining the VNR publication status of Taiwan. As a non-member state of the UN, Taiwan is not obligated to participate in the SDGs’ implementation, and it operates without the pressure typically exerted by the international community to publish VNRs. Nevertheless, Taiwan has demonstrated its active engagement in SDGs implementation by publishing VNRs in both 2017 and 2022. Despite its inability to attend the UN General Assembly, Taiwan has actively promoted its VNR publication status and has sought to share its policy experiences through its New York office. Taiwan’s approach to SDGs implementation and VNR publication is shaped by a combination of ideological, strategic, and institutional factors, all influenced by its unique international status. This study reveals that Taiwan places strong emphasis on aligning the fundamental principles of the SDGs with its foreign policy, thus legitimizing its SDGs implementation policies to strengthen its position in the international community. Furthermore, the Taiwanese government views the SDGs implementation policy as a diplomatic tool and actively champions it with determined leadership. In essence, Taiwan’s VNR publication is a complex interplay of Taiwanese ideas, strategic interests, and institutional considerations, displaying similarities with other aspects of Taiwan’s foreign policies.

DEFINING LEADERSHIP: FRANCES HESSELBEIN’S GIFT TO US

AbstractThe author, a writer and editor and pioneer in the field known as knowledge services, writes about his friendship with Frances Hesselbein. “She liked,” the author writes, “that my career was in knowledge services – as a consultant, author, and teacher – and she liked connecting that with her work in leadership.” The author is a longtime educator, and “Frances had strong expectations about how young people move into their roles as our future leaders. As a result, she had a passionate interest in working with young people simply because it was how she thought.” She suggested, in 2016, that she and the author would do a conference, “Leadership Imperatives for Millennials,” about leadership and knowledge for the students, held at Frances’ New York office. She was the keynote speaker, and the students’ “reactions were nothing short of phenomenal (in fact, the word ‘mesmerizing’ came up many times as they described the conference).”

OnPoint and other OPCs: How to argue against “crack house” statute

As long as what is referred to colloquially as the “crack house” statute is still on the books, OnPoint and other overdose prevention centers (OPCs) will have to prove they are legal in spite of that law. But Rob Kent, former legal counsel for the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and before that, the New York Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) has ideas for how to do so. “I hate the term,” said Kent, but it is what is used, and the 1986 federal law bans the use or maintenance of any place for the purpose of using illegal drugs.

Effects of xylazine in illicit fentanyl supply: Report from OASAS

At the COMPA (Coalition of Medication‐Assisted Treatment Providers and Advocates) Symposium last month in Albany, New York, officials from the New York Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) presented information on the effects of xylazine, increasingly present in the street supply of opioids, especially fentanyl. Pamela Mund, M.D., OASAS associate medical officer, and Sarah Gorry, M.S., an Empire State Fellow with OASAS, shared the following information. Xylazine is

Beloved Rob Kent leaves ONDCP for private consulting

Rob Kent, formerly general counsel of New York's Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS), and since 2021 general counsel of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has left the federal office as of April 14 for private practice, ADAW has learned. We talked to him in Atlanta last week, and as always, he was confident and articulate about the way to move forward. “I want to focus on providers,” he said. Since going to ONDCP, he has regularly heard from addiction treatment providers across the country about how to handle various issues. He's a lawyer and knows the field from a legal perspective better than anyone.

ID Asks/Kenneth Werner

ID Asks/Kenneth Werner

In Case You Haven't Heard…

Now that marijuana is legalized in so many places, guess what's cropping up in those same places? Illegal marijuana shops — in other words, shops that sell what they say is marijuana, but don't have a license, don't pay fees to the state, don't guarantee the safety of their product, and have now aroused the ire of citizens. For example, in Buffalo, New York, local lawmakers just passed a resolution to write rules and regulations for marijuana stores. The state legalized recreational use of the drug, but that leaves cities to work out details. Buffalo legislators have asked the New York Office of Cannabis Management — a state agency paid for by taxpayers — to step in and take action against unregulated stores. The lawmakers in Buffalo — as in many jurisdictions — who look at marijuana stores as a source of revenue, tourism, and part of a hospitality industry, are not opposed to legal marijuana. They just want any store that opens before it has a license to be banned. Meanwhile, how does one know if what they are buying is safe and legal? Questions to answer next year. Maybe.

#Betita TaughtMe: Risk-Taking as a Coalitional Gesture

#Betita TaughtMe:Risk-Taking as a Coalitional Gesture Rafael R. Solórzano (bio) Betita's History of Risk-Taking Movidas One cannot discuss the waves of youth activism in 1990s California without talking about the indispensable femtorship of Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez.1 As a freedom fighter and icon of the civil rights, Chicana/o, and women's movements, Betita's accessibility and popular education tools shaped youth of color's political activism and "understanding of their roles in social change" over many generations.2 For these youth, "to fight for justice alongside" Betita "was to connect to a lineage of nearly a century of revolutionary struggle."3 As a writer and organizer, Martínez documented and contributed to multiple freedom movements—from San Francisco, California, to Washington, DC. Her commitment to revolutionary politics and the fight against white supremacy led her to become director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) New York office in her forties. She continuously was part of young militant activist efforts to confront "southern strongholds of racism" despite its risks.4 Not only was "the work … grueling, especially for a single parent," as Tony Platt documented, Betita also carried out her activism in areas considered too dangerous to organize, such as rural Mississippi. In 1964, SNCC launched the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project (MFSP) to draw attention to the ways Mississippi Black people and civil rights workers experienced intimidation and violent oppression.5 As part of SNCC's increasing militancy in the region, Betita's stouthearted participation in this project helped document and build a homegrown freedom movement that consisted of traveling across the South to interview civil rights leaders and collect letters from volunteers. She later published this material in Letters from Mississippi (1965). But the act was particularly perilous, and in fact, scholars and organizers have acknowledged that the MFSP movement took "tremendous risks to combat the evil of racism."6 I open this piece with Betita's contributions to SNCC and MFSP to [End Page 1031] situate her activist past and how her many years of activism offered Bay Area youth of color activists in the nineties an understanding of the transformative potential that risk-taking and coalition building can facilitate. As the movement scholar Karma Chavez writes, Betita provides a "helpful model for how to think about such coalitional orientations."7 In a conversation with Angela Davis on May 12, 1993, at UC San Diego, Betita emphasized how building coalitions in a "me-first" generation after the Reagan-Bush administration requires experimentation, risk, and self-sacrifice, similar to the seven Black youth who sat down at the Woolworth's lunch counter at the first sit-in on April 1, 1960.8 She shared: "I want to emphasize the point about risk. There's not a climate of taking risks today. …There has to be some of that spirit today. Let's experiment, we don't have all the answers; we certainly don't have to have the ideology down, you know the whole package. But let's see some things that are wrong and try to change them, and take risks."9 So much of Martínez's writings and activism teaches us to reconsider the possibilities of risk-taking practices, or what I like to call "risk-taking movidas," on behalf of Black, Indigenous, queer, and youth of color activists. Risk-taking movidas not only are high-risk actions linked to activists' personal costs of time and energy and anticipated dangers but are resourceful undertakings meant to inspire mobilizations that center a new vision of racial solidarity among youth of color, queer youth, and women of color.10 At times, these new communityorganizing practices involve discomfort, fear, and sacrifice, such as the sit-ins at bus terminals and lunch counters led by Black leaders in the 1950s and 1960s. It is this teaching that remains most prominent and, I believe, inspired many of us youth of color in California to shift from our comfort zones in order to challenge the intensification of nativism and the state's youth abandonment by building a massive coalition in the 1990s. Drawing on my experience as a queer Chicano youth organizer in academic...

Experts Share Advice for Post-Roe World: ‘We Have to Be Proactive’

Experts Share Advice for Post-<i>Roe</i> World: ‘We Have to Be Proactive’

ASAM speakers: M.D.s must make equity part of healing mission

Addiction medicine specialists need to make their voices heard stronger in their communities in order to correct persistent social inequities in service delivery, the commissioner of the New York Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) told attendees of this month's annual conference of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). Chinazo Cunningham, M.D., delivered her remarks in an April 1 scientific plenary session that outlined personal career milestones that reflected her desire to close wide disparities in care.

Cultural Capital and Photographic Technologies at the Berlin Photographic Company in the USA

In this article I explore photogravure catalogues of the Berlin Photographic Company (BPC), a print publisher founded in 1862 specialising in reproductions of works of art, and in particular those published by its New York office from 1892 to 1916. In promoting its reproductions, the BPC connected social, aesthetic and technical knowledge, emphasising the quality of photogravure technologies while listing hundreds of images from diverse styles, historical periods, genres and subjects to appeal to a wide audience. The Company was sensitive to its customers’ cultural aspirations and recognised that the US market was different from that in Europe because of its less rigid class structure and a public motivated by ambitions for cultural knowledge and social mobility. With its wide range of reproductions from Old Masters, nineteenth-century popular and Academic artists, and later early twentieth-century modernists, the BPC appealed to these ambitions by providing photogravure prints – the company specialty – in different sizes, mounts and costs to a public of diverse tastes and economic means. The BPC’s innovations included its global locations in Berlin, Paris, London and New York and its creation of neologisms combining format and process tying the materiality of photogravures to a range of sizes and prices.

Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America by Teresa A. Goddu

Reviewed by: Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum Americaby Teresa A. Goddu Matthew Fox-Amato (bio) Antislavery, Slavery, Abolition, Media, American Anti-Slavery Society, Print culture, Material culture, Visual culture Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America. By Teresa A. Goddu. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 344. Cloth, $55.00.) The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), for Teresa A. Goddu, was more than an influential organization in the 1830s: It was also a cultural machine. The scale and diversity of the AASS's cultural production back this point. Established in 1833, the AASS had reached an estimated circulation of 725,000 copies of its publications per year by the end of the decade. Its many publications included monthly periodicals such as Human Rightsand The Emancipator, the yearly American Anti-Slavery Almanac, and the widely read American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses(1839). It published images such as the broadside Slave Market of America(1836) and organized well-attended fairs in cities such as Boston and Philadelphia, where attendees could buy all kinds of consumer goods to support the cause. In Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America, Goddu asks how AASS representations mobilized opposition to slavery while shaping the identities of the abolitionists who consumed them. One of the many virtues of Selling Antislaveryis how it treats abolitionist [End Page 154]literary texts as one of many cultural forms produced by the movement. After a chapter on the publishing strategies and distribution networks of the AASS, Goddu examines its representations in three sections: print culture (almanacs and slave narratives); material culture (consumer goods at fairs and the fairs as symbolic sites); and visual culture (images in publications and prints). A concluding chapter explores how Black artists and writers not affiliated with the AASS appropriated and contested its aesthetics. Blending business history with wide-ranging cultural analysis, Selling Antislaveryis a compelling contribution to our view of abolitionist media. The book joins a growing body of scholarship stressing the importance of visual and material culture to antebellum activists fighting for abolition and racial justice. Work over the last decade includes Maurie D. McInnis, Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade(Chicago, 2011); Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith, eds., Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity(Durham, NC, 2012); Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer, Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery(Philadelphia, 2013); John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier, Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American(New York, 2015); Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance(Chicago, 2015); and Aston Gonzalez, Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century(Chapel Hill, NC, 2020). Though not limited to abolitionism, these and other works have shown how abolitionists were keen to use images and ephemera to denounce slavery, define their public personas, and forge political bonds. Selling Antislaveryunderscores these insights while deepening our understanding of how, precisely, abolitionists were able to blanket the nation with representations in the 1830s. This was possible, for Goddu, because the AASS employed "innovative organizational structures, new technologies of reproduction and publicity, and systematized distribution" (10). The organization's top-down management structure, which started with the executive committee in New York, catalyzed expansion. The New York office took the lead in strategizing fundraising, planning the production of texts, and training paid lecturers. The AASS also embraced new media technologies, such as the steam press. Once created, AASS texts circulated across the North, to Europe, and even into the slave [End Page 155]South, as in the case of the 1835 postal campaign. Goddu describes the personnel who enabled such distribution and the actual places where people encountered media, including the many reading rooms and bookstores housed in offices of local societies. Grounded in extensive research in newspapers, personal papers, and the records of the AASS executive committee, Selling Antislaveryoffers an invaluable resource for those interested in how the AASS produced and circulated abolitionist texts with great variety, over a vast geography, in...

Screen Secrets: The Unpublished Hollywood Novels of Winnifred Eaton

Screen Secrets:The Unpublished Hollywood Novels of Winnifred Eaton Thomas Allen Winnifred Eaton's late novels "Movie Madness" and "Hollywood Melody" take up subject matter that might surprise readers who know this author primarily through the romances set in Japan which she wrote years earlier under the pen name Onoto Watanna. Composed during the period in the 1920s and early 1930s when Eaton worked as a writer and editor for Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Fox Films, these novels voice powerful criticisms of the exploitation of women in the film industry. In addition, their interest in questions of identity in relation to the culture of images and mass media epitomized by cinema places these novels near the beginning of a critical appraisal of twentieth-century modern culture that would continue in now-canonical works such as Nathanael West's novella The Day of the Locust (1939). However, unlike many better-known Hollywood novels, Eaton's fiction celebrates the creative and aesthetic value of popular entertainment, even while recounting the struggles of their women protagonists against the film industry's corrosive patriarchal culture. Perhaps because of their feminist themes, these novels were never published in full (although "Movie Madness" did appear as a shortened and altered serialization in a Hollywood fan magazine). Fortunately, several manuscripts representing different stages of Eaton's work on the two novels have been preserved at the University of Calgary Archives and Special Collections. These novels not only add to our understanding of Eaton's range as an author but also illuminate the beginnings of a fictional genre that would become central to our understanding of the role of cinema in twentieth-century modern mass culture. During her tumultuous five-year career in the film industry, Eaton moved between positions and employers relatively quickly. Letters and memoranda preserved in the Calgary archive reveal a string of disputes over credit for collaborative writing projects and complaints that she was paid less than her male [End Page 54] peers doing similar work. Eaton entered the industry in December 1924 in a position of authority when, thanks to connections she had made as a best-selling novelist, she was hired as the head of the Scenario Department at the New York offices of Universal Pictures.1 Her early novel A Japanese Nightingale (1900) had been adapted into a film of the same name starring Fannie Ward and released in 1918. She met Universal's legendary founder Carl Laemmle Sr. when she contributed title-card dialogue and story development for a 1921 Universal film called False Kisses (Birchall 135–36). 2 As biographer Diana Birchall recounts, Laemmle "was to become a mentor to Winnifred" (135). Film historian Vito Adriaensens points out that Eaton's role, not uncommon at the time, was to serve as a conduit between the studio and the fiction writers in her "large network of personal contacts" who produced usable source material for cinematic adaptation. Eaton joined a succession of literary writers who not only lent cultural prestige to the film companies that hired them but also helped those companies acquire new material for adaptation. She received a salary of $200 per week, and, as Birchall notes, she had "a staff, assistants, secretaries, and an important, prestigious title and position" (Birchall 155; Universal Pictures contract, 12 Dec. 1924).3 In 1925 her contract was extended an additional six months at a salary of $300 per week, and she moved to Universal's West Coast offices (Reeve, Universal Pictures contract, 22 Oct. 1925). In early December 1926, however, Eaton wrote a passionate letter of resignation to Laemmle. Although she assured him of her continued "love and respect," she complained that the credit for her work on the adaptation of Show Boat (released in 1929) had gone to a male writer who had done little work on the project, and that she was a victim of workplace gossip: "From the day I arrived I was a marked woman. Stories without the slightest basis in fact were circulated about me to the effect that I was impossible to get on with" (Reeve to Carl Laemmle Sr.). She informed Laemmle that she was taking a job offer from rival studio MGM...

The Effects of Covid19 Pandemic on Tourism Sector

In this research, we are going to analyze the effects of Covid 19 pandemic on the human resources management in the tourism sector. MakeMyTrip is Indian online tourism company which provides online travel services, including flight tickets, domestic and international vacation packages, hotel reservations, railways and bus tickets. MakeMyTrip has branch office in New York, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Phuket, Bangkok, and Dubai. This sector is one of the most affected by the pandemic. This study aims to analyze how employees adapt to the new needs of the sector and how companies motivate them to meet the organizational goals. The method used in this study was descriptive method in which the data taken from secondary source such as research articles and scientific journal. The results found that as many as 350 employees of MakeMyTrip had been laid off in order to maintain the company financial remain stable. They also reduce their variable costs such as advertising, sales promotions, payment gateway costs, optimized IT infrastructure and expenses related to the operation of their offices and other facilities.

CrossCurrents at 70 and Beyond: An Editor’s Introduction

CrossCurrents at 70 and BeyondAn Editor’s Introduction S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate (bio) As I write this, I peer out the window of my office in central New York, gazing on snow covered fields, a forest full of bare trees, and a glint of sunrise on an otherwise cloudy day. My bucolic reverie quickly dissipates as the sounds of my children’s online classes drift into my space: teachers appear on little computer screens as their cats interrupt their lectures, students forget to turn off their microphones as they send messages to friends, and my own children grow hungry and ask if I can make them breakfast (which I gladly do). I have inherited the editorship of this journal in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. For one full year now, much of the world has radically changed its day to day comings and goings, from classrooms to emergency rooms, barber shops to restaurants, family reunions to book clubs, weddings to funerals. Anyone who might happen on this introduction in years to come will undoubtedly remember the first years of the 2020s from a very different perspective. The mass carnage from the virus (to date there have been over 2-million deaths caused by Covid-19 around the world) and its curtailing of basic human abilities to talk with and embrace loved ones has made us rethink our relationships with each other. With this, we have also noted the impact of technology on our lives, the importance of evidence-based public policy, and the need for health care accessibility in both urban and rural areas. This year’s compound crises in public health, economic distress, and police brutality have ripped the band-aid off the ailing body politic of the United States to reveal the unhealing wound of white oppression and exploitation of Black and Brown bodies. It has revealed the ugly disparities between rich and poor, and between remote professionals and in-person service industry workers. These disparities are not mere demographics, they determine who lives and who dies, who gets sick and who stays healthy. [End Page 1] In the realm of religious life, the pandemic has caused us to query what constitutes an authentic religious gathering and whether technology can supply a good enough substitute for the times when people cannot physically meet. Rabbis, priests, imams, and other religious leaders have scrambled to provide guidelines for what counts as sacred space online, and how to perform rituals from afar. We also wonder about the social role of religious institutions in the wake of disaster. What can, and should, temples, mosques, synagogues, churches, and gurdwaras do to bring solace, provide sanctuary, and supply hospitality to local communities during times of crisis? We keep saying there will be a “new normal” once the severity of the pandemic diminishes, but there’s a good chance everything will go on as before. We may learn nothing from it all. But we also hope that is not the case. The geopolitical landscape of 2021 is also in disarray, with or without the pandemic. The United States has recently voted out a narcissistic President with autocratic tendencies who leaves office right after he incited an insurrection against the U.S. Capitol. Simultaneously, a resurgence of so-called populism around the world has brought with it a wave of anti-immigration sentiment which sometimes sediments into laws. This resurfaced populism has also given rise to the ugly specter of white supremacist activity, full of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia that combines with attacks against minoritized people based on racial, sexual, and gender identity differences. Countering this trend, current movements such as Black Lives Matter are challenging many of the long-held white supremacist assumptions about U.S. history, and countering the deep currents of racist policies and cultural norms. And then there is the global climate change crisis that constantly looms in the background, a cataclysmic event so enormous that most of us cannot really grasp it. Among other terrible components, 2020 was the hottest year on record around the globe (tied with 2016), Australia’s wildfires from the year are estimated to have killed or displaced three billion animals, and California...

SDGs + Synergies: Design, Access + Aftercare in Global Public Health

Abstract As Citizens of the World, in 2020 we have been challenged to frankly + swiftly evaluate public health crises, social injustice + their intrinsic link to our global economies. This starkly pivotal year marks a decade to the deadline to fulfill the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs are oft-considered the world's best plan towards building a better world for people and our planet. Adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, the SDGs are an international call-to-action to promote prosperity while protecting the environment. In light of the UN's 17th goal of Partnership, we wanted to amplify the interconnections between the specialties of architecture + health. This particular goal seeks to strengthen the means of implementation + revitalize the global collaboration for sustainable development. As an Architect specializing in Healthcare at SOM's New York office, Founder of WALLEN + daub + the Head of Global Surgery at University of Cape Town, we are approaching sustained well-being from our respective professions. We each serve different geographic markets towards the best outcomes. We pondered the codependency of space + care in creating a healing experience for patients. Global surgery + international healthcare architecture are rooted in serving others. Therefore, we are continuously considering the role of the professional in creating spatial infrastructure as a component of service delivery for care by clinicians. Progress is evident, but slow. The last Annual SDSN Report found that the best performing city is only making 68% progress toward full achievement of all seventeen SDGs. Of all largely-populated US cities, two-thirds are less than halfway there. As we work globally towards more equitable, healthy + resilient communities (#11), we must further investigate the impact and implementation of the other goals, namely: health + well-being (#3), access to sanitation (#6), + industry, innovation + infrastructure (#9). Key messages UN SDGs + public health care (sustainable care + design). Patient Well-being: Collaboration through sustainable development goals, design + care.

Capital flows and office markets in major global cities

PurposeOffice markets and particularly international financial centres over the past decade have experienced rapid financialisation, developments and indeed changes in the post-global financial crisis (GFC) landscape. Importantly, the volume and types of international capital flows have witnessed more foreign actors and vehicles entering into the investment landscape with the concentration of investment intensifying within key financial centres. This paper examines the interaction of international real estate capital flows in the London, New York and Tokyo office markets between 2007 and 2017.Design/methodology/approachUsing Real Capital Analytics (RCA) data comprising over 5,700 office property transactions equating to $563bn between 2007 and 2017, the direct global capital flows into the London, New York and Tokyo office markets are assessed using an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach. Further, Granger causality tests are examined to analyse the short-run interaction of international real estate capital flows into these three major office markets.FindingsBy assessing the relativity of internal to external investments in these three central business district (CBD) office markets, differences in market dynamics are highlighted. The London office market is shown to be highly dependent on international flows and the USA, the foremost source of cross-border investment on the global stage. The cointegration and causality analysis indicate that cross-border real estate investment flows in these markets (and financial centres) show both long- and short-run relationships and suggest that the London office market remains more distinct and the most reliant on international capital flows with a wider geographical spread of investment activities and investor types. In the case of New York and Tokyo, these markets appear to be driven by more domestic investment activity and capital seemingly due to subtle factors pertaining to investor home bias, risk aversion and diversification strategies between the markets in the aftermath of the GFC.Originality/valueGiven the importance of the CBD offices in London, New York and Tokyo as an asset class for institutional investors, this paper provides some insights as to their level of connection and the interaction of the international capital flows into these three major cities.

Combat Stress Management and Resilience: Adapting Department of Defense Combat Lessons Learned to Civilian Healthcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Combat Stress Management and Resilience: Adapting Department of Defense Combat Lessons Learned to Civilian Healthcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Kent, leaving OASAS, reflects on high points and challenges

Rob Kent, longtime general counsel for the New York Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS), is leaving April 1 for a new position with the American Association of Orthodontists in St. Louis. A masterful negotiator with a progressive view toward substance use disorders (SUDs), which made him beloved by treatment providers and harm reductionists alike, Kent also knew and could articulately discuss nuances of legal and regulatory issues affecting the state's SUD treatment providers. We talked to him last week to get his perspective on the high points and challenges of his career at OASAS, which he joined in 2007; before then, he was with the state's Office of Mental Health (OMH).