"Changes in alcohol consumption among college students due to COVID-19: Effects of campus closure and residential change" was both published and featured in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Dr. Jennifer Tidey was recently elected a 2021 Fellow of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT).

Dr. Kimberly Goodyear Chavanne will examine, "Understanding the impact of race on public attitudes toward individuals and communities with opioid addiction."

Sara Becker, Ph.D., formally received the 2020 G. Alan Marlatt Mid-Career Research Award from the Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

Join us in welcoming Dallece (Elena) Curley who will be working under the mentorship of Dr. Carolina L. Haass-Koffler!

A team of faculty and staff from the School of Public Health and the Warren Alpert School of Medicine have the lead article in a special issue of the American Psychologist.

Dr. Carolina Haass-Koffler was interviewed by Indy (The College Independent Hill) on the rising fentanyl crisis in the US!

Dr. Jacob Van den Berg recently published in Journal of Men's Health!

Dr. Jennifer Merrill & former CAAS Postdoc Dr. Carpenter recently published a manuscript on the impact of not only amount, but also rate of alcohol consumption during drinking events, on alcohol-related consequences.

Dr. Treloar Padovano recently published an article in Psychological Science titled, "The Altered Course of Learning: How Alcohol Outcome Expectancies are Shaped by First Drinking Experiences" with co-authors, Drs. Tim Janssen, Alexander Sokolovsky, and Kristina M. Jackson.

Dr. Carolina L. Haass-Koffler was recently published in Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research Journal for her paper, "Differences in Sociodemographic and Alcohol‐Related Clinical Characteristics Between Treatment Seekers and Nontreatment Seekers and Their Role in Predicting Outcomes in the COMBINE Study for Alcohol Use Disorder."

The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies has featured Associate Professor and Director of the New England ATTC, Dr. Sara Becker, as their Research Spotlight!

Dr. Tara White and her White Lab Team just published a groundbreaking new paper on brain compounds signalling emotional wellness in healthy people in NeuroImage!

Dr. Treloar Padovano recently published a paper titled, "Incubation of alcohol craving as it naturally occurs in a developmentally diverse sample of dependent and nondependent drinkers" in Addiction Biology!

The Center for Alcohol and Addiction studies is thrilled to welcome the new Fall 2020 Postdoctoral Fellows who will spend the next few years focused on innovative research, advanced dissemination and implementation strategies, and public education.

We are thrilled to welcome three recently hired staff members to the Brown CAAS team, Sharon Lang, Ellaina Reed, and Mika Salas!

Drs. Jennifer Tidey & Patricia Cioe recently worked in collaboration with colleagues at Vermont Center on Behavior and Health and Johns Hopkins University on a study that found lowering nicotine decreases addictiveness of smoking in vulnerable populations!

Dr. Rachel Gunn was recently published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence with her paper, "Ordering in alcohol and cannabis co-use: Impact on daily consumption and consequences" with co-authors, Drs. Alexander Sokolovsky, Angela K. Stevens, Jane Metrik, Helene White, and Kristina Jackson.

"E-cigarette Perceptions among HIV-positive Smokers in a Switching Study" by Dr. Patricia Cioe, Dr. Jennifer Tidey, Alana Mercurion, Catherine Costantino, and Dr. Christopher Kahler was just published in Tobacco Regulatory Science.

This qualitative study demonstrated that e-cigarettes were viewed as a less harmful, cost-effective method of reducing or eliminating CC smoking, and non-tobacco flavors were an essential part of EC appeal and use. Another finding suggested flavored EC liquid seems to enhance the user experience and may influence the user’s ability to make a complete switch.

Dr. Jacob van den Berg and his team have a paper entitled: "A systematic review of early adoption of implementation science for HIV prevention or treatment in the United States" that was just published in the journal AIDS. The manuscript was led by Dr. Sylvia Shangani, a former PhD student in the Behavioral and Social Sciences department, who just graduated and started a tenure track job at Old Dominion University this fall plus two undergraduates at Brown, Nidhi Bhaskar and Natasha Richmondand, and Drs. Don Operario and Jacob van den Berg.

Fourth year PhD student Holly Boyle received a fellowship for her research.

Congratulations to the Director of the New England ATTC, Dr. Sara Becker, on this landmark publication in Pediatrics "Brief Behavioral Interventions for Substance Use in Adolescents: A Meta-analysis."

Join us in welcoming a new member to the Brown Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies team.

Dr. Melissa Pielech, and co-authors recently published a manuscript in the journal American Psychologist.

We are so excited to congratulate Brown CAAS faculty recently promoted to Associate Professor!

Dr. Rosemarie Martin was a participant at a roundtable on Expanding MAT to Justice Involved Populations

Patricia Cioe receives Research Excellence Award

Dr. Tara L. White’s new website for the White Laboratory of Affective Neuroscience launched this week

Congratulations to Dr. Kelli Scott, who has recently become an Assistant Professor at CAAS!

Treloar Padovano and Robert Miranda published a paper in Addiction Biology showing that craving when in the presence of visible alcohol cues in the natural environment intensified with more days of continuous abstinence, specifically among drinkers with dependence. This work supports the phenomenon described as "incubation of craving," wherein longer periods of abstinence enhance cue-elicited craving in animal analogue models of dependence.

Treloar Padovano shares findings from a study about adolescents and alcohol

Congratulations to Anthony Surace who was recently accepted into the This Is Public Health (TIPH) Ambassador Program

Congratulations to Dr. Miranda for winning the Mark Wood Mentoring Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Meshesha on winning the Sharon Chauncey Fellow Award, and the 2021 Diversity Chair

Melissa Pielech recently published an article in The Journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain.

Congratulations to Dr. Colby, recently named Deputy Regional Editor (of the Americas) for Addiction.

Dr. Magill presented a podcast in Spring 2020 and contributed to a publication

Congratulations to Morayo Akande on her first First-authored publication.

Dr. Rachel Cassidy published a paper on E-cigarette measurement. This paper validated a measure of reward from e-cigarette use in users of tank-style e-cigarettes.

Alexander Sokolovsky recently published two papers in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Robert Miranda was a featured speaker in a recent virtual K99 Grant Writing Workshop

Jacob. van den Berg with Don. Operario and Stein has published two separate articles on (1) health disparities, and (2) motivational interviewing

Elizabeth Aston was a conference co-chair of the Collaborative Perspectives on Addictions 2020 conference

Congratulations to Alexander Sokolovsky who recently received a 5-year research grant