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Substance Use Harm Reduction

Journal Article

Resisting Smoking When a Best Friend Smokes: Do Intrapersonal and Contextual Factors Matter?

The strong link between having a best friend who smoked and increased adolescent smoking isn't affected by individual factors such as self-esteem, depressing and access to cigarettes.

Mar 1, 2012
Journal Article

Systematic Review of the Impact of Worksite Wellness Programs

Analyzes the impact of worksite wellness programs on health and financial outcomes, and the effect of incentives on participation.

Feb 1, 2012
Journal Article

Which Literacy Skills Are Associated with Smoking?

Increases in reading skills and numeracy skills substantially increase the odds that an individual will quit smoking.

Feb 1, 2012
Journal Article

Momentary Effects of Exposure to Prosmoking Media on College Students' Future Smoking Risk

This study used ecological momentary assessment to examine acute changes in college students' future smoking risk as a function of their exposure to prosmoking media (e.g., smoking in movies, paid advertising, point-of-sale displays).

Feb 1, 2012
Journal Article

Bayesian Hierarchical Semiparametric Modelling of Longitudinal Post-Treatment Outcomes from Open Enrolment Therapy Groups

There are several challenges to testing the effectiveness of group-therapy-based interventions in alcohol and other drug use treatment settings.

Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article

Establishing and Evaluating the Key Functions of an Interactive Systems Framework Using an Assets-Getting to Outcomes Intervention

Community practitioners can face difficulty in achieving outcomes demonstrated by prevention science.

Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article

Targeting Anti-Smoking Messages: Does Audience Race Matter?

This study examined whether an adolescent's self-identified race moderates the perceived effectiveness of anti-smoking messages.

Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article

Peer Influence and Selection Processes in Adolescent Smoking Behavior: A Comparative Study

Adolescent smoking studies find evidence of active peer influence and selection processes.

Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article

If Supply-Oriented Drug Policy Is Broken, Can Harm Reduction Help Fix It? Melding Disciplines and Methods to Advance International Drug-Control Policy

Critics of the international drug-control regime contend that supply-oriented policy interventions are not just ineffective, but, in focusing almost exclusively on supply reduction, they also produce unintended adverse consequences.

Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article

Who Becomes Addicted and Why?

Relationships between specific features of individuals and particular features of specific objects over time in specific contexts could be what creates the conditions necessary for stopping problematic substance use.

Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article

Childhood Socio-Economic Status and the Onset, Persistence, and Severity of DSM-IV Mental Disorders in a US National Sample

Although significant associations between childhood socio-economic status (SES) and adult mental disorders have been widely documented, SES has been defined using several different indicators often considered alone.

Oct 1, 2011
Journal Article

Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program

The large cross-school variation in the cost of implementing Project CHOICE (a voluntary after-school prevention program for adolescents) highlights the importance of collecting cost information from multiple sites.

Sep 1, 2011
Journal Article

Within-day Temporal Patterns of Smoking, Withdrawal Symptoms, and Craving

Real-time data collected by palm-top computer confirms individual differences in situational smoking associations.

Sep 1, 2011
Journal Article

Economic Impact of Mexico City's Smoke-Free Law

There is no statistically significant evidence that the Mexico City smoke-free law had a negative impact on restaurants' income, employees' wages and levels of employment.

Feb 3, 2011
Journal Article

A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment: The PROMIS Smoking Initiative

The PROMIS Smoking Initiative has the goal of developing, evaluating, and making widely available a set of items for assessing smoking behavior and the biopsychosocial constructs that can be used to predict smoking outcomes.

Jan 17, 2011
Journal Article

The Effects of Arkansas Master Settlement Spending on Disparities in Smoking

We assessed the effect of Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) spending on smoking disparities in Arkansas, which distinguished itself from other states by investing all of its MSA funds in health-related programs.

Jan 1, 2011
Journal Article

Lapse-induced Surges in Craving Influence Relapse in Adult Smokers: An Experimental Investigation

Previously abstinent smokers who lapse are at risk for increased cigarette cravings and full-blown relapse. The findings have implications for cognitive–behavioral treatments to prevent relapse and medications to help smokers manage cravings.

Jan 1, 2011
Journal Article

The Role of the Self in Smoking Initiation and Smoking Cessation: A Review and Blueprint for Research at the Intersection of Social-Cognition and Health

This paper discusses a contemporary social cognitive framework that can be used to understand the role of the self-concept in smoking.

Jan 1, 2011
Journal Article

Nicotine Replacement Prescribing Trends in a Large Psychiatric Hospital, Before and After Implementation of a Hospital-Wide Smoking Ban

Clinicians are more likely to treat symptoms of nicotine withdrawal when smoking is restricted. Hospitals should monitor prescriptions for nicotine replacement therapies to ensure high quality patient care.

Jan 1, 2011
Research Brief

The Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Programs: The Impact of One State's Investment in the Health of its Residents

Summarizes results of RAND's evaluation of the progress and impact of Arkansas' antismoking and health programs established with its share of tobacco settlement funds.

Jun 23, 2010

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