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Substance Use
The use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs has long been associated with a range of public health problems, including cancer, chronic lung and liver disease, sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections and mental health. Our school's researchers are studying emerging trends associated with vaping, legalized recreational marijuana, and the U.S. opioid crisis, which now claims about 50,000 lives annually.
The availability of illicitly produced synthetic opioids has increased dramatically since 2013, worsening the public health crisis. In response to this crisis, research at the Yale School of Public Health includes epidemiological and geospatial analyses of opioid-involved fatalities in Connecticut and elsewhere in the United States that include assessing the potential public health benefits of expanded access to naloxone. Additionally, research is being conducted assessing the role of expedited referral to medication-based treatment through harm-reduction organizations and emergency departments in treating the underlying opioid-use disorder.
Other YSPH research includes:
- Factors that may contribute to risk of non-fatal opioid overdoses
- The role of mental health, stigma and discrimination in substance use
- How to integrate behavioral health care for substance use problems into primary care
- Strategies for limiting the harms of substance use, and more foundational studies of the causes or impacts of inadequately treated substance use or mental illness
- Using behavioral health economics to develop programs to promote risk-reduction behaviors
- Potential eHealth applications as effective tools for treating tobacco- and substance-use disorders
- The economics of substance abuse including lost productivity, cost-effectiveness of treatments, social costs and policy, and drivers behind key disparities
- The role of substance use in co-morbidities such as cancer and HIV
- Tobacco and e-cigarette control
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prevention for, treatment of, and individual and community harms associated with substance use disorders
Recent Publications
2024
- Perspectives regarding cannabis use: Results from a qualitative study of individuals engaged in substance use treatment in Georgia and Connecticut.Warnock CA, Ondrusek AR, Edelman EJ, Kershaw T, Muilenburg JL. Drug Alcohol Depend Rep. 2024 Jun; 2024 Mar 24. PMID: 38585142.
- Prevalence and correlates of alcohol use among the elderly in the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN) cohort study.Ransome Y, Martinez-Brockman JL, Galusha D, Thompson TA, Adams OP, Nazario CM, Nunez M, Nunez-Smith M, Maharaj RG. Addict Behav. 2024 Jun; 2024 Mar 1. PMID: 38447411.
- Firearm storage practices among military veterans in the United States: Findings from a nationally representative survey.Nichter B, Hill ML, Fischer I, Panza KE, Kline AC, Na PJ, Norman SB, Rowcliffe M, Pietrzak RH. J Affect Disord. 2024 Apr 15; 2024 Jan 26. PMID: 38280567.
- U.S. Women with Invasive Cervical Cancer: Characteristics and Potential Barriers to Prevention.Rosenblum HG, Gargano JW, Cleveland AA, Dahl RM, Park IU, Whitney E, Castilho JL, Sackey E, Niccolai LM, Brackney M, Debess E, Ehlers S, Bennett NM, Kurtz R, Unger ER, Markowitz LE. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2024 Apr 12; 2024 Apr 12. PMID: 38608239.
- Stepped Care for Patients to Optimize Whole Recovery (SC-POWR): An Effectiveness Trial Evaluating a Stepped Care Model for Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder and Chronic Pain.Rossi R, Cutter CJ, Beitel M, Covelli M, Fiellin DA, Kerns RD, Vassilieva S, Olabisi D, Barry DT. Subst Use Addctn J. 2024 Apr 12; 2024 Apr 12. PMID: 38606900.
- Sex, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Substance Use Disorders in US Military Veterans: Results From the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.Moore AS, Stefanovics EA, Jankovsky A, Potenza MN, Pietrzak RH. J Addict Med. 2024 Apr 10; 2024 Apr 10. PMID: 38598295.
- Combined Motivational Interviewing and Ecological Momentary Intervention to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Use Among Sexual Minority Cisgender Men and Transgender Individuals: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.Lauckner C, Takenaka BP, Sesenu F, Brown JS, Kirklewski SJ, Nicholson E, Haney K, Adatorwovor R, Boyd DT, Fallin-Bennett K, Restar AJ, Kershaw T. JMIR Res Protoc. 2024 Apr 5; 2024 Apr 5. PMID: 38578673.
- "It's Like A Partnership": Exploring the Primary Care Experiences and Patient-Defined Goals of People Who Use Drugs.Dunham K, Rivas C, Medina Blanco P, Kolod B, Salvati C, Clark K, Sue KL, Hagaman A, Weiss JJ. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Apr 5; 2024 Apr 5. PMID: 38578536.
- A Qualitative Exploration of Attitudes Toward Global Positioning System Tracking and Ecological Momentary Assessment Among Individuals in Substance Use Treatment.Viera A, Ondrusek A, Tengatenga C, McBurney E, Lauckner J, Tran E, Muilenburg J, Kershaw T, Lauckner C. Subst Use Addctn J. 2024 Apr; 2024 Jan 7. PMID: 38258809.
- Clinical considerations for the management of xylazine overdoses and xylazine-related wounds.Sue KL, Hawk K. Addiction. 2024 Apr; 2023 Nov 8. PMID: 37939387.
- A qualitative study on perceptions and experiences of overdose among people who smoke drugs in Vancouver, British Columbia.Ivsins A, Bonn M, McNeil R, Boyd J, Kerr T. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2024 Mar 29; 2024 Mar 29. PMID: 38581922.
- Leveraging Natural Language Processing to Evaluate Young Adults' User Experiences with a Digital Sleep Intervention for Alcohol Use.Griffith F, Ash G, Augustine M, Latimer L, Verne N, Redeker N, O'Malley S, DeMartini K, Fucito L. Res Sq. 2024 Mar 28; 2024 Mar 28. PMID: 38585984.
- Alcohol-Related Care Among Veterans With Unhealthy Alcohol Use: The Role of Long-term Opioid Therapy Receipt.Joudrey PJ, Wang M, DeRycke E, Williams EC, Edelman EJ. J Addict Med. 2024 Mar 27; 2024 Mar 27. PMID: 38533996.
- Disaggregating Asian-American Mortality in Drug-Related Overdoses and Behavioral Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study.Zhu DT, Zhong A, Ho WJ, Tamang S. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2024 Mar 26; 2024 Mar 26. PMID: 38530623.
- Problem Opioid Use Among US Military Veterans: Prevalence, Correlates, and Psychiatric Characteristics.Na PJ, Petrakis IL, Krystal JH, Pietrzak RH. J Addict Med. 2024 Mar 18; 2024 Mar 18. PMID: 38498625.
- Prevalence of Kratom Use Disorder among Kratom Consumers.Hill K, Grundmann O, Smith KE, Stanciu CN. J Addict Med. 2024 Mar 5; 2024 Mar 5. PMID: 38441236.
- Problematic Alcohol Use Trajectories in U.S. Military Veterans during a Public Health Crisis: Results from a 3-year, Nationally Representative, Longitudinal Study.Na PJ, Fischer IC, Petrakis IL, Pietrzak RH. Psychiatr Q. 2024 Mar; 2024 Feb 6. PMID: 38319532.
- Implementation of REDCap mobile app in an oral HIV clinical study.Seminario AL, Karczewski AE, Stanley S, Huamani JV, Montenegro JJ, Tafur K, Julca AB, Altice FL. BMC Public Health. 2024 Feb 28; 2024 Feb 28. PMID: 38413910.
- Accessibility of Opioid Treatment Programs Based on Conventional vs Perceived Travel Time Measures.Kim J, Lee J, Thornhill TA, Dennett J, Lu H, Howell B, Grau LE, Fiellin DA, Heimer R, Gonsalves G. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Feb 5; 2024 Feb 5. PMID: 38376839.
- The MATE Act: Progress for substance use education, but is checking a box enough?Morford KL, Tetrault JM, Fiellin DA. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Feb 2; 2024 Feb 2. PMID: 38308156.
- Integrating methadone into primary care settings in Ukraine: effects on provider stigma and knowledge.Bromberg DJ, Machavariani E, Madden LM, Dumchev K, LaMonaca K, Earnshaw VA, Pykalo I, Filippovych M, Haddad MS, Dvoriak S, Altice FL. J Int AIDS Soc. 2024 Feb. PMID: 38379179.
- Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-Randomized Studies.Buchanan AL, Hernández-Ramírez RU, Lok JJ, Vermund SH, Friedman SR, Forastiere L, Spiegelman D. medRxiv. 2024 Feb 1; 2024 Feb 1. PMID: 38352598.
- Structural stigma and LGBTQ+ health: a narrative review of quantitative studies.Hatzenbuehler ML, Lattanner MR, McKetta S, Pachankis JE. Lancet Public Health. 2024 Feb. PMID: 38307678.
- "It's all connected:" A mixed methods study of insomnia, stigma, and discrimination among individuals on medication for opioid use disorder.Nwanaji-Enwerem U, Sadler LS, O'Connell M, Barry D, Knobf TM, Jeon S, Scheinost D, Yaggi K, Redeker NS. Sleep Health. 2024 Feb; 2023 Nov 18. PMID: 37980246.
2023
- Ethnic and racial differences in self-reported symptoms, health status, activity level, and missed work at 3 and 6 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection.O'Laughlin KN, Klabbers RE, Ebna Mannan I, Gentile NL, Geyer RE, Zheng Z, Yu H, Li SX, Chan KCG, Spatz ES, Wang RC, L'Hommedieu M, Weinstein RA, Plumb ID, Gottlieb M, Huebinger RM, Hagen M, Elmore JG, Hill MJ, Kelly M, McDonald S, Rising KL, Rodriguez RM, Venkatesh A, Idris AH, Santangelo M, Koo K, Saydah S, Nichol G, Stephens KA. Front Public Health. 2023; 2024 Jan 30. PMID: 38352132.
Centers and other resources
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)CIRA provides HIV-related resources, skills, services, training, and professional networking opportunities to HIV researchers and practitioners who can contribute to advances in HIV prevention and treatment.
- The Substance Abuse and Sexual Health Lab (SASH)SASH lab focuses on conducting and disseminating strengths-based youth substance use and HIV prevention research.