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

Hayley Padovano will present at the Society for Ambulatory Assessment in Australia

Suzanne Colby, Damaris Rohsenow, and Jennifer Tidey have been elected Fellows of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco

Drs. Cassidy, Aston, Colby and Tidey published a paper on adolescent smoking.

Rosemarie Martin has given multiple national presentations to the U.S. Department of Justice and at several national conferences

The Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group Lifetime Achievement Award has been awarded to Kate Carey.

Patricia Cioe presented at the 32nd Annual Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Conference

Dr. Gunn received a 5-year K08 award, and co-published a new study involving cannabis and veterans

Dr. Tidey was a Discussant at the NIH Tobacco Regulatory Science symposium

Drs. Peter Monti, Kate Carey, and Sara Becker presented at an NIAAA-sponsored workshop.

Dr. Sara Becker presented at the Addiction Health Services Research conference

Dr. Merrill presented on "Heavy Drinking" in Toronto, and Sherbrooke, Canada

Dr. Patricia Cioe and CAAS colleagues were notified that A PILOT STUDY TO EXAMINE THE ACCEPTABILITY AND HEALTH EFFECTS OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES IN HIV-POSITIVE SMOKERS has been accepted for publication in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. This is the first study to examine the use of electronic cigarettes as a method of harm reduction in HIV-positive smokers who are unable or unwilling to quit smoking. The study demonstrated that cigarettes smoked per day were reduced by more than 80% overall and 37% of participants completely transitioned to e-cigs, completely eliminating combustible tobacco.

Drs. Barnett and Jackson received a grant

Dr. Patricia Cioe has been busy lately, giving a presentation and receiving two awards.

Dr. Haas-Koffler received an R01 Award from NIH/NIAAA

Dr. Rosemarie Martin, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, was an invited subject matter expert at National Governor’s Association (NGA) Southeast Regional Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) workshop. Through a partnership with the American Correctional Association & the CDC, NGA brought 5 states to the table to discuss access to MAT for justice involved populations.

Cara Murphy was a contributor on the now published book: Compulsive Eating Behavior and Food Addiction: Emerging Pathological Constructs edited by Dr. Cottone, Dr. Sabino, Dr. Moore, and Dr. Koob

Drs. Mollie Monnig and Peter Monti have had an article titled Cerebral Metabolites on the Descending Limb of Acute Alcohol: A Premiliminary 1H MRS, accepted for publication in Alcohol and Alcoholism. Their study examined metabolic changes in the brain on the descending limb of blood alcohol concentration. Congratulations to both!

Dr. Bernstein co-authored an article in BMJ-Evidence Based Medicine, led by Dr. Charlotte Blease at Harvard University.

Dr. Jennifer Tidey was promoted to Deputy Editor of the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, for which she had been an Associate Editor since 2008.

Dr. Martin was a member of opening panel 'Inside Out – Exploring Cross Sector Collaboration for Maximum Impact' and breakout panel 'Leaning in-How criminal justice can integrate treatment, accelerate recovery and prevent arrests' at the National Opioid Leadership Summit in Sacramento June 24 - 25. The U.S. General Jerome Adams was the opening plenary speaker.

Dr. van den Berg and other Brown colleagues co-authored an article entitled "Open pilot trial of a brief motivational interviewing-based HIV PrEP intervention for MSM: Preliminary effects, and evidence of feasibility and acceptability" that was published in AIDS Care.

Jennifer Merrill received a new grant award from NIAAA, and presented at the 2019 Kettil Bruun Society

Dr. Jennifer Tidey was the Discussant in the CPDD Presidential Symposium, entitled Impact of Tobacco Use on Substance Use Disorders: Mechanism to Epidemiology.

Dr. Kristina Jackson presented new data from a NIDA-funded study in her talk "Real-world simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use: An ecological study of motives and social context" at the Research Society on Alcohol in Minneapolis, MN.

Drs. Damaris Rohsenow, Rosemarie Martin, and Jennifer Tidey presented at The College on Problems of Drug Dependence

Rosemarie Martin was invited to speak at the National Governor's Association (NGA)

Dr. Jennifer Merrill is the keynote speaker for The Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol

Molly Magill was recently awarded an Independent Scientist Award (K02) from NIAAA

Peter M. Monti delivered the 10th Annual Jack Mendelson Honorary Lecture at the National Institutes of Health

Tara White joined the Editorial Board of Behavioral Neuroscience, and completed a visiting fellowship at the University of Cambridge