Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies

Cannabis

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Cannabis

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

Areas of Focus

  • Cannabis use in community-based and clinical adult samples
  • Adolescent substance use
  • Comorbid cannabis and alcohol use
  • Drug use and HIV

CAAS faculty's body of research includes a cannabis administration laboratory to investigate various determinants of cannabis use and its effects; observational studies utilizing ecological momentary assessment to examine cannabis-related risk behaviors (e.g., driving under the influence of cannabis) and associations between cannabis and alcohol use behaviors; medications for adolescents with comorbid cannabis and alcohol use; and dissemination/implementation of research findings.

Significant work has focused on comorbidity, particularly the comorbidity of alcohol and cannabis use and the comorbidity of affective disorders with cannabis use.

 

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'Saving Lives': Bill Would Fund Psychedelic Therapies for Military Veterans

A new bill could expand veteran access to MDMA-assisted therapy, thanks in part to the groundbreaking research on MDMA for PTSD and alcohol use by CAAS faculty Erica Eaton, Christy Capone, & Carolina Haass-Koffler. This was the first VA-funded study for psychedelic-assisted therapy since the 1960s.
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Faculty

Faculty engaged in research relating to cannabis

Affiliated Research Units

Center for addiction and Disease Risk Exacerbation (CADRE)

Our mission is to become a national leader in substance use bio-behavioral research and chronic disease manifestations in vulnerable populations (especially underrepresented ethnic or racial minorities), serving as a resource for training and research within Brown University as well as regionally and nationally.