Congratulations to Dr. Trish Cioe who just had a publication in AIDS Care. Her team found that increased physical activity was not associated with reduced overall HIV symptom burden over time, but that participants with more physical activity had lower symptom burden at week 12. In addition, men reported lower symptom burden than women.

Sara J. Becker, Ph.D. received the Dissemination and Implementation Science Special Interest Group's Early Career Achievement Award

Patricia Cioe was presented with the ANAC Researcher Recognition Award by The Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC)

Nancy Barnett received an R01 grant renewal from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Kate Carey received a 4-year R01 from NIAAA, titled "Using Counter Attitudinal Advocacy to Change Drinking Behavior."

A team of researchers, including two at Brown University, show that when people smoked cigarettes with less nicotine, they smoked less, felt less craving, and tried to quit more. Results appear in The New England Journal of Medicine.

A new study by researchers in Brown University’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies finds that children given a sip of alcohol before sixth grade were more likely to have had a full drink or have gotten drunk by ninth grade than those who didn’t get a sip. But the study reveals only an association, not proof of a cause, the researchers caution.

In three decades, the nation’s attitude toward addiction has changed from shame and criminalization to diagnosis, treatment, and research. Brown’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies has been a leading advocate and agent for that change. CAAS and the University are celebrating 30 years of accomplishments in addiction studies.

People who like to smoke when they drink may be at greater risk of suffering a hangover the next morning, according to a study by Damaris Rohsenow and Kristina Jackson of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies.

In a new study, addiction researchers found that attentive parenting can overcome a genetic predisposition to alcohol use disorder among teens. Although further research is needed, says lead author Robert Miranda Jr., parents can have an impact if they “closely monitor their child’s behavior and peer group.”

Colleges have increased use of computer-delivered interventions to provide alcohol counseling because they can reach more students while using fewer resources. But in a new systematic review, researchers found that the impact of CDIs on students was weaker and more short-lived than the effect of face-to-face counseling.

A new study finds that relatively early into tobacco addiction, teens experience many of the same negative psychological effects during abstinence as adults do, with a couple of exceptions. The data can inform efforts to improve the efficacy of quitting and withdrawal treatment programs.

The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies presented Peter Monti its Addictive Behavior Lifetime Achievement Award

Robert Miranda Jr., assistant professor (research) with the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, will examine whether the drug topiramate can help reduce marijuana addiction among teens.