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

Congratulations to Dr. Helseth who recently received a NIDA K23 grant

Dr. Kate Carey and colleagues published paper entitled "Correcting Exaggerated Drinking Norms With a Mobile Message Delivery System: Selective Prevention With Heavy-Drinking First-Year College Students." They sent 10 weeks of daily text messages containing accurate campus drinking norms to first year college students. At the end of the semester, students who received the norms texts drank less and reported fewer alcohol consequences that students who received daily texts with neutral content.

Congratulations to Sara Becker and Sarah Helseth on their new publication in Substance Abuse! Studying moderators of treatment outcome is important to help match patients to treatment. This study found that families with poor parent-teen communication and those with low levels of deviant peer affiliation had better outcomes if the parent received a brief motivational intervention than if they received brief education.

Jacob van den Berg just had a paper that published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, titled "Transmission Risk Among Youth Living With HIV in the U.S."

Mollie Monnig presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)

Dr. Sara Becker was a plenary speaker at the Rosecrance Health Network Inaugural Adolescent Behavioral Health Symposium

Drs. Patricia Cioe and Suzanne Colby presented at the American Lung Association in Providence RI

Jasjit Ahluwalia received a 2020 Research Seed Award from Brown University

Dr. Rachel Gunn recently published a paper titled "Complex cannabis use patterns: Associations with cannabis consequences and cannabis use disorder symptomatology" in the journal Addictive Behaviors. This paper examined the evolving cannabis use landscape by using latent class analysis to classify cannabis users from three college campuses across the U.S.

Sarah Helseth was recently chosen for NIDA's Justice Community Opioid Intervention Network (JCOIN)

Dr. van den Berg presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Mollie Monnig recently presented at the first annual Rhode Island Microbiome Symposium

Sara Becker presented at the Public Health TA Center Networking Meeting and at Penn State University