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Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Drug Use & Misuse

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  • Global Health
  • HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Reproductive Health
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Drug Use & Misuse

Examining multiple dimensions of drug use and misuse by employing a range of scientific methods.

Areas of Focus

  • Cannabis
  • Adolescent substance use
  • Comorbid cannabis and alcohol use
  • Drug use and HIV

Our faculty's body of research includes: a marijuana administration laboratory to investigate various determinants of marijuana use and its effects; interventions to modify drug use in prisoners on release; investigating ways to address smoking in substance treatment programs; longitudinal studies on the developmental course of substance use throughout adolescence; medications for adolescents with comorbid cannabis and alcohol use; and dissemination/implementation of research findings.

Behavioral economics plays a substantial role in our drug use portfolio. BSS’s portfolio on drug use and HIV includes research on drug use and HIV prevention in Latino adolescents, the syndemics of drug use with alcohol use and HIV risk in developing countries, drug and alcohol use in sexual minorities, and using new technologies to study and intervene in HIV risk behavior in substance users. Significant work has focused on comorbidity, particularly the comorbidity of alcohol and cannabis use and the comorbidity of affective disorders with cannabis use.

Faculty

  • Elizabeth Aston

    Elizabeth Aston

    Associate Professor (Research)
    Elizabeth_Aston@brown.edu
  • Nancy Barnett

    Nancy Barnett

    Professor
    Nancy_Barnett@brown.edu
  • Katie Biello

    Katie Biello

    Professor, Chair of the Department of Epidemiology
    Katie_Biello@brown.edu
  • Judson Brewer

    Judson Brewer

    Professor
    Judson_Brewer@brown.edu
  • Rachel Cassidy

    Rachel Cassidy

    Associate Professor (Research), Department Vice Chair
    Rachel_Cassidy@brown.edu
  • Gunn

    Rachel Gunn

    Associate Professor
    Rachel_Gunn@brown.edu
  • Jaclyn White Hughto

    Jackie White Hughto

    Associate Professor
    jaclyn_hughto@brown.edu
  • Tim Janssen

    Tim Janssen

    Assistant Professor (Research)
    Tim_Janssen@brown.edu
  • Christopher Kahler, PhD

    Christopher Kahler

    Professor, Director of CAAS
    christopher_kahler@brown.edu
  • Aditya Khanna

    Aditya Khanna

    Associate Professor
    Aditya_Khanna@brown.edu
  • Molly Magill

    Molly Magill

    Professor (Research)
    Molly_Magill@brown.edu
  • Rosemarie Ann Martin

    Rosemarie Martin

    Associate Professor
    Rosemarie_Martin@brown.edu
  • Matthew Meisel

    Matthew Meisel

    Assistant Professor
    Matthew_Meisel@brown.edu
  • Jennifer Merrill

    Jennifer Merrill

    Associate Professor
    Jennifer_Merrill@brown.edu
  • Micalizzi

    Lauren Micalizzi

    Assistant Professor (Research)
    Lauren_Micalizzi@brown.edu
  • Miranda

    Robert Miranda

    Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
    Robert_Miranda_Jr@brown.edu
  • Monti

    Peter Monti

    Donald G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies
    Peter_Monti@brown.edu
  • Cara Murphy

    Cara Murphy

    Assistant Professor
    Cara_Murphy@brown.edu
  • Damaris Rohsenow

    Damaris Rohsenow

    Professor (Research)
    Damaris_Rohsenow@brown.edu
  • Sokolovsky

    Alexander Sokolovsky

    Assistant Professor
    Alexander_Sokolovsky@brown.edu
  • Tidey

    Jennifer Tidey

    Professor, Associate Dean for Research
    Jennifer_Tidey@brown.edu
  • Tyler Wray

    Tyler Wray

    Associate Professor
    Tyler_Wray@brown.edu

Affiliated Research Centers and Labs

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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Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS)

Conducts collaborative research that will lead to more effective treatment for alcohol and drug use, and creates a nationwide program in addiction education and training for psychologists, physicians, medical students, and health care professionals.
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