Tobacco Settlement

Cateogry: Prevention

Sponsor:Arkansas TSC

PI: John Engberg

Start Date: January 2003

End Date: December 2008

This study examines the effects and cost-effectiveness of the seven public health and tobacco control programs supported by the ATSC.

Alcohol Use & Abuse Following Traumatic Injury

Cateogry: Drug Use & Consequences

Sponsor:National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA)

PI: Grant Marshall

Start Date: May 2003

End Date: April 2009

This study examines key unresolved issues concerning the dynamic relationship between posttraumatic alcohol abuse and psychological morbidity

GIS, Alcohol Marketing and Alcohol Related Outcomes

Cateogry: Understanding markets, Drug Policy & Trends

Sponsor: National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA)

PI: Deborah Cohen

Start Date: September 2003

End Date: July 2008

To investigate the relationship between neighborhood-level availability and promotion of alcohol and alcohol-related mortality

Long Term Results of Project ALERT Plus

Cateogry: Prevention

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Phyllis Ellickson

Start Date: September 2003

End Date: June 2008

The project proposes to follow the ALERT Plus field trial cohort for two additional waves of data collection to determine the long-term effects of the drug prevention program.

The Role of Trauma Exposure in Drug Use & HIV Risk

Cateogry: Drug Use & Consequences

Sponsor: NIMH

PI: Grant Marshall

Start Date: July 2004

End Date: June 2009

To investigate the association between traumatic experiences and HIV risk behaviors, including three samples of participants: injection drug users, non-injection drug users, and non-drug users.

Understanding the Impacts of Funding Volatility on Treatment Services

Cateogry: Treatment, Drug Policy & Trends

Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

PI: Patricia Ebener

Start Date: October 2004

End Date: September 2009

This project investigates the impacts of treament funding cutbacks and targeted treatment initiatives since 1990 on the long term capacity, quality and utilization of substance abuse treament servcies in California.

Residential Status, Drug Use, and Health Among Impoverished Women

Cateogry: Drug Use & Consequences

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Suzanne Wenzel

Start Date: October 2004

End Date: September 2009

A small, time-limited study that blends quantitative and qualitative approaches to achieve the goal of improving our understanding of the relationship between residential status and drug use, HIV risk behaviors (i.e., risky sex), violence, and mental health among impoverished women, and that will serve as a foundation for future experimental work examining the relationship between residential status and health in this population.

Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Depression

Cateogry: Drug Use & Consequences

Sponsor: National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA)

PI: Katherine Watkins

Start Date: August 2005

End Date: June 2009

Investigators will develop and test a group CBT intervention for depression in residential substance abuse treatment centers.

Bayesian Pattern-Mixture Models for Quality of Care (QOC)

Cateogry: Modeling & Forecasting

Sponsor: AHRQ

PI: Susan Paddock

Start Date: September 2005

End Date: August 2008

Improve the assessment of the relationships among treatment structure, process, and outcomes when treatment dropout and study attrition occur and utilize expert opinion and knowledge about the reasons for missing data in order to inform the PMM-building process.

Alcohol & Sex Risk in HIV

Cateogry: Modeling & Forecasting

Sponsor: Drug Use & Consequences

PI: Rebecca Collins

Start Date: September 2005

End Date: June 2009

This project is collecting data on state and local alcohol policies and linking it to survey data describing the sexual risk behavior of a national probability sample of people living with HIV (drawn from the HCSUS sample). The goal is to test whether alcohol policies influence the likelihood of HIV-transmission from an infected to an uninfected individual by affecting the probability of unprotected anal, vaginal, or oral sex.

Alcohol & HIV

Cateogry: Modeling & Forecasting

Sponsor: Drug Use & Consequences

PI: Suzanne Wenzel

Start Date: September 2005

End Date: May 2009

This study will achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between alcohol use/misuse and HIV risk behaviors among the highly vulnerable population of impoverished women by attending to the social context in which these behaviors occur.

Impact of Amphetamine Abuse on Health and Crime

Cateogry: Understanding markets, Drug Policy & Trends

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Nancy Nicosia

Start Date: September 2005

End Date: August 2009

This project examines the impact of a 1995 DEA intervention on drug markets, public health outcomes and crime in California and documents the evolution of methamphetamine use in California.

Reduce Alcohol Abuse

Cateogry: Prevention, Drug Use & Consequences

Sponsor: Santa Barbara HS District

PI: Patricia Ebener

Start Date: January 2006

End Date: September 2008

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Homeless Women with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Cateogry: Treatment

Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

PI: Suzanne Wenzel

Start Date: May 2006

End Date: March 2009

Homeless women suffer from traumas and PTSD at rates typically higher than among housed women. Although effective, empirically validated treatments for PTSD are available, homeless women are unlikely to avail themselves of mental health services despite high levels of need. This three-year study addresses a critical gap in treatment research to meet the mental health service needs of homeless women.

Economic Cost of Drug Use

Categories: Drug Use & Consequences, Drug Policy & Trends, Modeling & Forecasting

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Rosalie Pacula

Start Date: May 2006

End Date: April 2010

The specific aims of this 4-year study are to estimate the total economic cost of drug abuse in the United States using a more traditional economics approach that distinguished the internal costs of drug use borne by the user from the external costs this use imposes on non-users.

Evaluation of Mentally Ill in the Veterans Health Administration

Cateogry: Treatment

Sponsor: ALTARUM (Dept of Veteran Affairs)

PI: Katherine Watkins

Start Date: June 2006

End Date: June 2010

Performance assessment of the Veterans' Health Administration's care of seriously mentally ill patients

Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression

Cateogry: Treatment

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Katherine Watkins

Start Date: September 2006

End Date: May 2008

Investigators will develop and test a group CBT intervention to treat depression in an outpatient substance abuse treatment setting.

Drug Use, Social Context, and HIV Risk in Homeless Youth

Cateogry: Drug Use & Consequences

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Joan Tucker

Start Date: April 2007

End Date: March 2011

The major goal of this study is to investigate the social context of drug use and high-risk sexual behavior in a probability sample of homeless youth (ages 13-23) in Los Angeles County.

Getting to Outcomes and Underage Drinking

Categories: Prevention, Drug Policy & Trends

Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

PI: Matthew Chinman

Start Date: April 2008

End Date: March 2011

An evaluation of a new intervention based on the GTO model—Getting To Outcomes for Underage Drinking (GTO-UD), which is designed to help communities successfully translate evidence-based underage drinking prevention strategies into practice by building their prevention capacity.

Modeling the effect of cigarette advertising on adolescent smoking

Categories: Understanding Markets, Drug Policy & Trends

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: William Shadel

Start Date: April 2008

End Date: March 2011

The purpose of this study is to experimentally model how exposure to cigarette advertising interacts with individual differences to promote higher intentions to smoke among never smoking adolescents.

Adolescents' responses to anti-smoking Public Service Announcements (PSAs)

Cateogry: Prevention

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: William Shadel

Start Date: October 2005

End Date: June 2008

The goal of this project is to evaluate, in two laboratory-based studies, how individual differences in how adolescents' experiences with smoking (never smoker, experimenter, regular smoker) interact with features of anti-smoking Public Service Announcements (attractiveness of actors, strength of anti-smoking message) to predict their intentions and willingness to smoke in the future.

Social Context of Smoking in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Categories: Prevention, Drug Use & Consequences

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Joan Tucker

Start Date: July 2007

End Date: June 2010

The goal of this study is to advance the understanding of peer influences on youth smoking by using social network analysis to investigate how friendship networks are related to patterns of smoking over time.

Assessment of the Adolsescent Therapeutic Community Treatment Process

Categories: Treatment

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Maria Orlando Edelen

Start Date: April 2008

End Date: March 2010

The goal of this project is to refine counselor- and client-report measures of adolescent treatment process and examine their psychometric properties among adolescents enrolled in residential Therapeutic Community substance abuse treatment programs at one of two participating TC organizations.

Brief Substance Use Intervention for Youth in Teen Court

Categories: Prevention

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Elizabeth D'Amico

Start Date: September 2007

End Date: August 2012

This study will adapt and test an efficacious group intervention among teens who have committed a first time alcohol or other drug misdemeanor offense. These teens have been referred by the juvenile Probation Department to a Teen Court program because they have not been found to need more serious intervention such as treatment or detention. We will implement a pilot test of the revised intervention and examine the impact of the intervention on cognitive and behavioral outcomes.

Brief Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Intervention for Middle School Youth

Categories: Prevention

Sponsor: National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA)

PI: Elizabeth D'Amico

Start Date: September 2007

End Date: June 2012

The current study builds on our previous work in which we developed and tested a voluntary after school intervention that targeted alcohol and drug use among middle school youth. The main objective of the proposed 5-year longitudinal study is to build on our initial work by conducting a more rigorous test of Project CHOICE in 16 middle schools.

Adolescent Treatment Services: Young Adult Outcomes

Categories: Treatment

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Andrew Morral

Start Date: July 2004

End Date: June 2009

This project assesses the effects of adolescent treatment on key outcomes observed during young adulthood, the critical developmental period during which many people discontinue a variety of problem behaviors, while others establish lifelong patterns of drug use, crime and poor economic functioning. We will examine treatment effects on drug problems, HIV risk behaviors, health, criminal activity, health service utilization, psychosocial and economic functioning, and developmental transitions.

Understanding the Temporal Effects of Parental Divorces on Youth Behaviors

Categories: Drug Use & Consequences

Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

PI: Jeremy Arkes

Start Date: August 2007

End Date: July 2009

This project aims to examine the temporal effects of parental divorce on teenager's risky behavior (substance use, sexual behavior, and criminal activity) and younger children's problem behavior.

Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States

Categories: Drug Use & Consequences; Drug Policy & Trends

Sponsor: The Meth Project Foundation

PI: Rosalie Pacula

Start Date: December 2007

End Date: November 2008

The purpose of this project is to develop the first estimate of the annual economic burden of methamphetamine use in the US.

Role of Race in Criminal Justice Referrals to Treatment

Categories: Treatment; Drug Policy & Trends

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Nancy Nicosia

Start Date: March 2008

End Date: February 2011

To examine the adjudication of drug offenders in California from 1982- 2005 to determine the extent to which race/ethnicity has played a role in final disposition and referral to drug treatment.

World Market in Illicit Drugs

Categories: Understanding Markets

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Stijn Hoorens, Peter Reuter

Start Date: December 2007

End Date: December 2008

Trimbos Institute/ EC DG JLS- World market in illicit drugs and policy measures.

Effects of Meth Precursor Regulation on Drug Markets, Health, and Crime

Categories: Understanding markets, Drug Policy & Trends

Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

PI: Nancy Nicosia

Start Date: July 2006

End Date: June 2008

This project examines the impact of several federal precursor regulations on drug markets, public health outcomes, and crime nationwide.