Sarah Mars, PhD
Qualitative Project Director
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Publications (44)

Top publication keywords:
Harm ReductionNarcoticsHeroinHeroin DependencePhiladelphiaSelf MedicationWest VirginiaSubstance Abuse, IntravenousMethamphetamineAnalgesics, OpioidOpioid-Related DisordersDrug ContaminationDrug UsersDrug OverdoseFentanyl

• The influence of transformations in supply on methamphetamine initiation among people injecting opioids in the United States.
  Harm reduction journal 2024 Mars S, Ondocsin J, Holm N, Ciccarone D
• Pandemic expertise: qualitative findings on the experiences of living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  AIDS care 2023 Mars SG, Spinelli MA, Ondocsin J, Koester KA, Rodriguez ES, Jain J, Arreguin M, Johnson MO, Gandhi M
• The motives and methods of methamphetamine and 'heroin' co-use in West Virginia.
  Harm reduction journal 2023 Ondocsin J, Holm N, Mars SG, Ciccarone D
• The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A Living Digital Repository.
  American journal of public health 2022 Caleb Alexander G, Mix LA, Choudhury S, Taketa R, Tomori C, Mooghali M, Fan A, Mars S, Ciccarone D, Patton M, Apollonio DE, Schmidt L, Steinman MA, Greene J, Ling PM, Seymour AK, Glantz S, Tasker K
• 'The High Five Club': Social Relations and Perspectives on HIV-Related Stigma During an HIV Outbreak in West Virginia.
  Culture, medicine and psychiatry 2022 Mars SG, Koester KA, Ondocsin J, Mars V, Mars G, Ciccarone D

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• Correction to: Hostility, compassion and role reversal in West Virginia's long opioid overdose emergency.
  Harm reduction journal 2021 Ondocsin J, Mars SG, Howe M, Ciccarone D
• Hostility, compassion and role reversal in West Virginia's long opioid overdose emergency.
  Harm reduction journal 2020 Ondocsin J, Mars SG, Howe M, Ciccarone D
• Heroin type, injecting behavior, and HIV transmission. A simulation model of HIV incidence and prevalence.
  PloS one 2019 Bobashev G, Mars S, Murphy N, Dreisbach C, Zule W, Ciccarone D
• 6. Into the Epistemic Void: Using Rapid Assessment to Investigate the Opioid Crisis.
  2019 Jason N. Fessel, Sarah G. Mars, Philippe Bourgois, Daniel Ciccarone
• Fentanyl: the many challenges ahead.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2019 Mars SG, Rosenblum D, Ciccarone D
• Illicit fentanyls in the opioid street market: desired or imposed?
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2018 Mars SG, Rosenblum D, Ciccarone D
• Toots, tastes and tester shots: user accounts of drug sampling methods for gauging heroin potency.
  Harm reduction journal 2018 Mars SG, Ondocsin J, Ciccarone D
• Sold as Heroin: Perceptions and Use of an Evolving Drug in Baltimore, MD.
  Journal of psychoactive drugs 2017 Mars SG, Ondocsin J, Ciccarone D
• Heroin uncertainties: Exploring users' perceptions of fentanyl-adulterated and -substituted 'heroin'.
  The International journal on drug policy 2017 Ciccarone D, Ondocsin J, Mars SG
• The Textures of Heroin: User Perspectives on "Black Tar" and Powder Heroin in Two U.S. Cities.
  Journal of psychoactive drugs 2016 Mars SG, Bourgois P, Karandinos G, Montero F, Ciccarone D
• Nationwide increase in hospitalizations for heroin-related soft tissue infections: Associations with structural market conditions.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2016 Ciccarone D, Unick GJ, Cohen JK, Mars SG, Rosenblum D
• Heroin-related overdose: The unexplored influences of markets, marketing and source-types in the United States.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2015 Mars SG, Fessel JN, Bourgois P, Montero F, Karandinos G, Ciccarone D
• The relationship between US heroin market dynamics and heroin-related overdose, 1992-2008.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2014 Unick G, Rosenblum D, Mars S, Ciccarone D
• Urban segregation and the US heroin market: a quantitative model of anthropological hypotheses from an inner-city drug market.
  The International journal on drug policy 2013 Rosenblum D, Castrillo FM, Bourgois P, Mars S, Karandinos G, Unick GJ, Ciccarone D
• "Every 'never' I ever said came true": transitions from opioid pills to heroin injecting.
  The International journal on drug policy 2013 Mars SG, Bourgois P, Karandinos G, Montero F, Ciccarone D
• Intertwined epidemics: national demographic trends in hospitalizations for heroin- and opioid-related overdoses, 1993-2009.
  PloS one 2013 Unick GJ, Rosenblum D, Mars S, Ciccarone D
• 1965–2010.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Ambiguous Justice.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Defining ‘Good Clinical Practice’.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Guidelines and the Licensing Question.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Introduction.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Prescribing and Proscribing.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Unifying Hierarchs and Fragmenting Individualists.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• ‘Friendly’ Visits and ‘Evil Men’.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• 1965–2010: A Background Sketch.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Ambiguous Justice: The General Medical Council and Dr Ann Dally.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Defining ‘Good Clinical Practice’.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Guidelines and the Licensing Question.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Introduction.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Prescribing and Proscribing: The Treatment and Rehabilitation Report.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• The Politics of Addiction: Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England since the 1960s. Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History series
  Modern HistoThe Politics of Addiction: Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England since the 1960s, 2012 Sarah G Mars
• Unifying Hierarchs and Fragmenting Individualists: Three Professional Groups.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• ‘Friendly’ Visits and ‘Evil Men’: The Home Office Drugs Inspectorate.
  2012 Sarah G. Mars
• Meanings & motives. Experts debating tobacco addiction.
  American journal of public health 2008 Mars SG, Ling PM
• Book Review.
  Medical History 2005 Sarah Mars
• The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin. The Opium Trade and Opium Suppression in Fujian Province, 1820s to 1920s.
  Addiction 2005 SARAH MARS
• Peer pressure and imposed consensus: the making of the 1984 Guidelines of Good Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Drug Misuse.
  Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2005 Mars S
• History of addictions.
  Journal of epidemiology and community health 2004 Berridge V, Mars S
• Book of the Month: Heroin Addiction Care and Control: The British System 1916 to 1984.
  Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2003 Sarah Mars