About Larry Gant, Ph.D., MSW

Larry Gant is Professor of Social Work and Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on neighborhood-based responses to health disparities and social-economic challenges in post-industrial cities in the United States and urban metropolitan areas in Europe, sub-Saharan African and China. Another strand of research includes the use of visual and performance arts-based settlement house programs to create indigenous creative classes of residents for community capacity development. Gant’s research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and numerous private foundations.

What You'll Learn

• How responses to the opioid crisis have differed from other drug epidemics in the past
 
• Similarities and differences between how the opioid crisis affects urban and rural areas
 
• The difference between rehabilitative and punitive responses to opioid misuse
 
• Evolving attitudes toward legal syringe exchanges
 
• Examples of community interventions that promote harm reduction
 
• Recommendations for increased counseling opportunities in urban areas