Presentations - Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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Breakout Session 1

HIV Issues

Stephanie Tortu, PhD - "HIV Risk Reduction Services for High Risk Youth in Post-Katrina New Orleans"

Robert Booth, PhD - "Predictors of Treatment Retention and Its Effects on Injection Drug Use and HIV Risk Behaviors"

Patricia Wright, MPH, RN - "Understanding Perceptions of HIV Risk among Rural African-American Stimulant Users in Arkansas"

Women and Gender Issues

Denise Zabkiewicz, MPH - "The Mental Health Benefits of Work: Do They Apply to Women on Welfare?"

Jeffrey Kingree, PhD - "Participation in Alcoholics Anonymous Activities, Abstinence from Alcohol, and the Moderating Role of Gender"

Van Ta, PhD - "Are there Racial Disparities in Use of Mental Health/Substance Use Services in the Hawaii Healthy Start Program"

Noosha Niv, PhD - "Pregnant Women in Women-Only and Mixed-Gender Substance Abuse Treatment Programs: A Comparison of Client Characteristics and Program Services"

Symposium - Economic Evaluation of Adolescent Addiction Interventions

Jenny Homer, MPA, MPH - "Effectiveness of Outpatient Chemical Dependency Programs for Adolescents in an HMO"

Kathryn McCollister, PhD - "Juvenile Drug Court and the Economic Costs Associated with Criminal Activity for Adolescent Substance Users"

J. Catherine Maclean, MA - "Outpatient Marijuana Treatment for Adolescents: Long-Term Follow-Up of Costs and Economic Benefits"

Breakout Session 2

Symposium - The Community of Treatment Providers and Adoption of Evidence-Based Practice: Policies, Attitudes, Linkages and Outcomes

Elaine Cassidy, PhD - "State and Provider Efforts to Increase the Use of Evidence-Based Addiction Practices"

Bret Fuller, PhD - "Counselor Characteristics Predict Attitudes toward Treatment Practices"

Luke Bergmann, PhD, MSW - "Legislating Clinical Practice: Counselor Responses to a State Mandate in Oregon"

J. Aaron Johnson - "Training and Exposure to Evidence-Based Practices: Changing Attitudes Among the Addiction Treatment Workforce"

Sarah Manser, MA - "After Clinical Trials: A Range of Adoption Outcomes"

Symposium - Performance Measures: Opportunities for Research

Constance Horgan, ScD - "State of the Art Performance Measurement for Substance Use Disorders"

Richard Saitz, MD, MPH - "Washington Circle (WC) Performance Measures for Alcohol and Other Drug Disorders: A Platform for Research"

Deborah Garnick, ScD - "Do Initiation and Engagement in Substance Abuse Treatment Decrease the Likelihood of Arrest and
Incarceration?"
Policy Issues

Sarita Bhalotra - "Buprenorphine and Its Adoption by Substance Abuse Treatment Organizations in the United States"

Amy Wallace, MD, MPH - "Did Raising the Drinking Age Reduce Later Alcohol Treatment Episodes? The US Military as a Natural Experiment"

Michael French, PhD - "Riding Under the Influence: Can Alcohol Policies Influence Motorcycle Safety and Reduce Fatalities?"

Douglas Polcin, EdD - "Sober Living Houses After, During, and as an Alternative to Treatment"
Methodology Issues

Mark McGovern, PhD - "Assessing the Dual Diagnosis Capability of Addiction Treatment Services: The Dual Diagnosis Capability in Addiction Treatment (DDCAT) Index"

Paul Nietert, PhD - "Variation among Primary Care Practices in Screening for Alcohol Disorders among Patients with Hypertension: Implications for Group Randomized Trials"

John Finney, PhD - "Regression to the Mean in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Research"

Gary Zarkin, PhD - "The Effect of Alternative Staff Time Data Collection Methods on Methadone Treatment Service Costs"
Breakout Session 3
Cost Issues

Rita Vandivort-Warren, MSW - "Substance Abuse Expenditure Treatment Trends, 1986 - 2003"

Donald Shepard, PhD - "Public Sector Behavioral Health Services in Massachusetts Medicaid - Comparison Among Contracting Arrangements: Purchaser Carve-Out, Health Plan Carve-Out, and Health Plan Carve-In"

Rosalie Pacula, PhD - "Funding Volatility and Treatment Services: The Case of California"

Kathryn McCollister, PhD - "The Cost of Treating Addiction from the Client's Perspective: Results from the Client Drug Abuse Treatment Cost Analysis Program (Client DATCAP)"

Symposium - Natural History of Stimulant Users: A Community Approach

Robert Carlson, PhD - "Predictors of Drug Abuse Treatment Entry Over 18 Months among Rural Illicit Stimulant Users in Ohio, Arkansas, and Kentucky"

Purushottam Thapa, MBBS, MPH - "Substance Use After Emergency Department Visit for Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain"

Russel Falck, MA - "The Natural History of Crack-Cocaine Use: A Midwestern Perspective"

Tyrone Borders, PhD - "Longitudinal Changes in Cocaine and Methamphetamine Use among Rural Stimulant Users"

Issues with Opioids (Use and Treatment)

Stephen Butler, PhD - "Real-Time, Product-Specific, Prescription Opioid Abuse Surveillance: The NAVIPPRO System"

Christine Grella, PhD - "Gender Differences in Health Status and Health Services Use Among Opiate Users in a 25-Year Follow-Up Study"

Dennis Deck, PhD - "Access to Opiate Treatment and Felony Arrests: Results from 2 Western States"

Robert Schwartz, MD - "Entry and Engagement in Opioid Treatment Programs: In the Voice of the Participants"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     



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