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Alcohol Use & Misuse

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Alcohol Use & Misuse

Conducting empirical research on alcohol use across the translational research spectrum.

Areas of Focus

  • Neurobiological and neurocognitive predictors and consequences
  • Ecological momentary assessments
  • Early intervention
  • Treatment development
  • Treatment outcomes
  • Pharmacotherapy for AUD
  • Special populations, including adolescents, veterans, and LGBTI+ community members
  • Comorbidity with cannabis or nicotine use
  • Comorbidity with mental health disorders

Our department supports a robust research portfolio, with most of this work conducted through the internationally renowned Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS). 

Our research includes:

  • Investigations to characterize the neurobiological and neurocognitive predictors and consequences of alcohol use

  • Laboratory and ecological momentary assessment studies of the contextual factors, mechanisms, and consequences of alcohol use

  • Longitudinal cohort studies

  • Treatment development and treatment outcome studies;

  • Studies of pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder, including pharmacotherapies with adolescents

  • Early intervention research.  

A significant body of work has focused on comorbidity, particularly the comorbidity of alcohol with cannabis use, affective and other mental disorders, and cigarette smoking. 

Adolescent use is another focus of our research, including etiology and brief interventions for adolescent alcohol misuse. Extensive treatment studies involve a variety of populations with particular emphasis on adolescents, college students, patients in substance use treatment programs, incarcerated populations, and emergency department patients. Many of these studies employ modern communication technologies, including text messaging, to deliver behavioral interventions. 

Through the Alcohol Research Center on HIV, BSS faculty collaborate on programmatic research on the biobehavioral interactions of alcohol use and HIV infection. This research examines neurobiology of alcohol use in people living with HIV, the role of alcohol use on HIV transmission, and interventions to address alcohol use in people living with HIV and those at high risk for HIV infection.

Faculty

  • Kate Carey

    Kate Carey

    Director of the Doctoral Program, Professor
    Kate_Carey@brown.edu
  • Molly Magill

    Molly Magill

    Professor (Research)
    Molly_Magill@brown.edu

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Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies

Conducts collaborative research that will lead to more effective treatment for alcohol and drug use, and is creating a nationwide program in addiction education and training for psychologists, physicians, medical students, and health care professionals.
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Center for Addiction & Disease Risk Exacerbation (CADRE)

CADRE is a federally funded NIH COBRE Center. Through its affiliation with the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, CADRE investigates mechanisms whereby substance use impacts disease, using a combination of behavioral and physiological laboratory-based approaches across several substances of abuse.
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Alcohol Research Center on HIV (ARCH)

A multidisciplinary program project grant focused on reducing the impact of alcohol on the breadth and depth of the HIV epidemic.
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