Alcohol Trajectories and Service Use in Young Adults: Nine Years Post Treatment

Funder: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Principal Investigator: Campbell, Cynthia

Impact of Services on Problem Drinking Trajectories

Funder: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Principal Investigator: Sterling, Stacy

Alcohol SBIRT Implementation in an HMO: Non-Physician Providers Versus Physicians

This study examines implementation of the use of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Clinicians Guide for Screening and Brief Intervention in response to alcohol problems.
Funder: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Principal Investigator: Mertens, Jennifer

A Brief Intervention in Adolescents with Alcohol Intoxication Presenting to the Emergency Department

The primary goal of this study is to conduct a prospective, randomized trial of two acute interventions for alcohol abuse versus control in adolescents presenting to emergecny departments for alcohol-related complaints. Patients will perform a validated alcohol abuse audit prior to intervention then be recontacted in one year to perform a post-intervention audit for comparison.
Funder: California Office of Traffic Safety
Principal Investigator: Offerman, Stephen

Patients with Alcohol Problems and Chronic Pain: Use of Alcohol and Pain Services

This research identifies alcohol problems in chronic pain patients and examines individual, provider, and organizational barriers to treatment for this population. The findings will have implications for pain management and alcohol treatment, and they will lay the foundation for an intervention that integrates care for these patients with specialized needs. 
Funder: Nat. Inst. of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Principal Investigator: Campbell, Cynthia

Life-course and Cost Trajectories of Alcohol Patients: A 15-year Study

This longitudinal study of 1,204 managed care chemical dependency (CD) patients at 13 and 15 years, following index CD treatment, examines the course of recovery from alcohol and drug problems, mortality and medical and psychiatric problems among the sample, health care utilization and costs, and the effects of health care disparities on outcomes. 
Funder: Nat. Inst. of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Principal Investigator: Mertens, Jennifer

Brief Intervention to Reduce Substance Use and HIV Risk in South Africa

This exploratory study aims to examine feasibility and use of a randomized controlled trial to examine effectiveness of a brief motivational intervention in reducing drug and alcohol use among young adults in a new setting and population--a public primary health care clinic serving medically indigent residents in Cape Town, South Africa. 
Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Principal Investigator: Mertens, Jennifer

Screening for Youth Alcohol and Drug Use: A Study of Primary Care

This study surveys pediatrician and adolescent medicine physicians on barriers and facilitators to screening for alcohol and drugs among adolescents.
Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Principal Investigator: Weisner, Constance

Adolescent Family-Based Alcohol Prevention

This project tests two different models of family-based primary care prevention for adolescent substance abuse.
Funder: National Institutes of Health
Principal Investigator: Aalborg, Annette

Smoking among Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals of Color

This study seeks to understand smoking behaviors among lesbians, bisexual women, heterosexual women, gay men, bisexual men and heterosexual men and to develop culturally appropriate smoking prevention and cessation programs for the people in the lesbian, gay and bisexual communities who are at highest risk.
Funder: Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
Principal Investigator: Gruskin, Elisabeth

Long-term Opioid Management of Chronic Pain: Trends and Risks

This study advances knowledge concerning trends, determinants and risks of long-term opioid therapy among chronic pain patients, focusing on back pain as a tracer condition and using data from individuals with chronic back pain.
Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Principal Investigator: Campbell, Cynthia

Alcohol Consumption and Complication of Diabetes

This study evaluates differences in the incidence of diabetes complications and health care costs attributable to alcohol consumption in a large, multiethnic, well-characterized cohort.  
Funder: Nat. Inst. of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Principal Investigator: Ahmed, Ameena

Center for Advancing Longitudinal Drug Research

This study is a secondary analysis of longitudinal data from substance use treatment studies for the purposes of development and application of rigorous scientific approaches for advancing longitudinal research on substance use problems and its interplay with substance use treatment and other service systems.
Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Principal Investigator: Sterling, Stacy

Center for Advancing Longitudinal Drug Research

This study is a secondary analysis of longitudinal data from substance use treatment studies for the purposes of development and application of rigorous scientific approaches for advancing longitudinal research on substance use problems and its interplay with substance use treatment and other service systems.
Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Principal Investigator: Weisner, Constance

Validation of a Prenatal Alcohol and Drug Screening Tool

This study will validate an instrument for screening pregnant women for use of alcohol and other drugs during pregnancy, thereby improving the availability of and accessibility to alcohol-related treatment and prevention services for this population.
Funder: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Principal Investigator: Armstrong, Mary Anne

Innovative policy strategies need empirical evaluation

Weisner, C.;
Addiction   106 (12): 2069-70
Dec 2011
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The Relationship Between Neighborhood Characteristics and Recruitment into Adolescent Family-Based Substance Use Prevention Programs

Byrnes, H. F.; Miller, B. A.; Aalborg, A. E.; Keagy, C. D.;
 
Oct 29 2011
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Continuing care and long-term substance use outcomes in managed care: early evidence for a primary care-based model

Chi, F. W.; Parthasarathy, S.; Mertens, J. R.; Weisner, C. M.;
  62 (10): 1194-200
Oct 2011
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Formal and informal substance use treatment utilization and alcohol abstinence over seven years: Is the relationship different for blacks and whites?

Avalos, L. A.; Mulia, N.;
Drug and alcohol dependence 
Sep 20 2011
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Formal and informal substance use treatment utilization and alcohol abstinence over seven years: Is the relationship different for blacks and whites?

Avalos, L. A.; Mulia, N.;
 
Sep 20 2011
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Patterns of alcohol and drug use among depressed older adults seeking outpatient psychiatric services

Satre, D. D.; Sterling, S. A.; Mackin, R. S.; Weisner, C.;
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry   19 (8): 695-703
Aug 2011
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Prescription Long-term Opioid Use in HIV-infected Patients

Silverberg, M. J.; Ray, G. T.; Saunders, K.; Rutter, C. M.; Campbell, C. I.; Merrill, J. O.; Sullivan, M. D.; J. Banta-Green C; Von Korff, M.; Weisner, C.;
Clin J Pain 
Jun 14 2011
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Excess mortality among HIV-infected patients diagnosed with substance use dependence or abuse receiving care in a fully integrated medical care program

DeLorenze, G. N.; Weisner, C.; Tsai, A. L.; Satre, D. D.; Quesenberry, C. P., Jr.;
Alcohol Clin Exp Res   35 (2): 203-10
Feb 2011
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Excess Mortality Among HIV-Infected Patients Diagnosed With Substance Use Dependence or Abuse Receiving Care in a Fully Integrated Medical Care Program

Delorenze, G. N.; Weisner, C.; Tsai, A. L.; Satre, D. D.; Quesenberry Jr, C. P.;
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 
Nov 8 2010
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Stopping smoking during first year of substance use treatment predicted 9-year alcohol and drug treatment outcomes

Tsoh, J. Y.; Chi, F. W.; Mertens, J. R.; Weisner, C. M.;
Drug Alcohol Depend 
Nov 1 2010
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Access to Treatment for Adolescents With Substance Use and Co-Occurring Disorders: Challenges and Opportunities

Sterling, S.; Weisner, C.; Hinman, A.; Parthasarathy, S.;
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry  49 (7): 637-646
Jul 2010
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Individuals receiving addiction treatment: are medical costs of their family members reduced?

Weisner, C.; Parthasarathy, S.; Moore, C.; Mertens, J. R.;
Addiction  
May 14 2010
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Predictors of longitudinal substance use and mental health outcomes for patients in two integrated service delivery systems

Grella, C. E.; Stein, J. A.; Weisner, C.; Chi, F.; Moos, R.;
Drug Alcohol Depend 
Mar 23 2010
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Ethnic disparities in accessing treatment for depression and substance use disorders in an integrated health plan

Satre, D. D.; Campbell, C. I.; Gordon, N. P.; Weisner, C.;
Int J Psychiatry Med  40 (1): 57-76
 2010
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Trends in prescribed opioid therapy for non-cancer pain for individuals with prior substance use disorders

Weisner, C. M.; Campbell, C. I.; Ray, G. T.; Saunders, K.; Merrill, J. O.; Banta-Green, C.; Sullivan, M. D.; Silverberg, M. J.; Mertens, J. R.; Boudreau, D.; Von Korff, M.;
Pain   145 (3): 287-93
Oct 2009
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