Biographical Sketches
, is a Co-Investigator with the Center for Technology and Health. She also is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Acosta received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Delaware, and completed a predoctoral internship in Pediatric Psychology at the A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Addiction Psychology at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dr. Acosta’s research activities have focused on novel adaptations of evidence-based substance abuse interventions in non-traditional settings (e.g., psychiatric, medical, remote/telephone, computer/web-based) that may improve the reach and acceptability of these treatments for vulnerable populations. She has served as Project Manager, Co-Investigator, and Principal Investigator on several NIDA-funded trials and one SAMHSA-funded trial. She has collaborated on research developing and evaluating substance abuse interventions for medically ill patients (i.e., patients with chronic pain, patients requiring a liver/kidney transplant) and has collaborated on substance use research in youth, including young adult smokers, behavioral interventions to address teen substance use, and the adaptation of a computer-delivered assessment for teen substance use. She also served as site PI for an ADHD treatment study in substance abusing adolescents. Currently, Dr. Acosta serves as Co-Investigator on a project examining the impact of computerized behavior therapy in methadone maintenance clients and as Co-Investigator and Project Manager of a project that will develop and evaluate the acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a web-based, skills training program for adolescents with substance use disorders.
, is a principal investigator in the Institute for Special Populations Research and the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research. Her current NIDA-funded study investigates the feasibility of conducting ethnographic research on HIV risk among drug-using Black men who have sex with men and women (MSM/W) but do not identify as gay or homosexual and do not disclose their same-sex activity to their female partners. While there is speculation that Black MSM/W serve as a “bridge” population facilitating HIV infection among Black women, it is not well supported by empirical evidence. Nor has there been systematic research on patterns of drug use and disclosure of sexual activity to partners among this population. This study will attempt to collect preliminary data on how Black MSM/W decide whether and what they will disclose about their drug use and sexual practices.
Dr. Benoit is also a project manager in the Center for Comprehensive Care at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. There she works on a NIDA-funded study testing an intervention aimed at helping hospitalized HIV-infected substance users get into outpatient care for both HIV and substance use. Key to the intervention is bedside motivational interviewing and post-discharge support provided by trained peers.
Dr. Benoit is a sociologist whose research has focused on social policies related to public health and social control, particularly as they affect low-income substance users. She has published articles on poverty and the illegal drug trade, the impact of welfare reform on drug treatment, and sociodemographic contexts of drug use and dependence. Before joining the staff of NDRI, she taught sociology at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. She was also a postdoctoral research fellow in the Behavioral Sciences Training Program in Drug Abuse Research at MHRA/NDRI from 2001 to 2003.
joined the Center for the Integration of Research and Practice in 2004 , bringing his combined skills, of administration, negotiation, strategic planning and program design to advance the training and technical assistance capabilities of the organization. As NDRI’s Project Director of the federal Co-Occurring Center for Excellence, John is coordinating technical assistance and training to those States that are implementing service improvements for the co-occurring disorders population. In his 16 years as the General Manager of Odyssey House New Zealand, Mr. Challis led the agency through a massive expansion to its current status as the premiere provider of residential treatment in the country. Odyssey House New Zealand is an excellent example of how technology transfer can move a service, with a long history of treatment, to extend its core treatment knowledge to specialized populations. Mr. Challis has placed a high priority on workforce development and training, and has presented papers and workshops on treatment for populations with co-occurring disorders at national and international venues. He was the inaugural chair of the New Zealand Accreditation Board for Alcohol & Drug Services, which was instrumental in developing sector standards. From 1998 to 2003 , he chaired both the National Treatment Forum, an elected body for the alcohol and drug sector, and Profile, which is the regional providers’ association. Mr. Challis has shown leadership, administration and negotiation skills both as General Manager of Odyssey House and in his alcohol and drug sector leadership roles, interfacing with key leaders, including Government Ministers and the Prime Minister. He has developed strategic alliances with key researchers that have contributed to the literature on co-occurring disorders. Before joining Odyssey House New Zealand, John Challis was the Youth Services Director for Odyssey House Melbourne, was the Deputy Director of a residential service for behaviorally disturbed youth, and has worked as a senior teacher in secondary schools. As a recent transplant, John spends his spare time exploring the cultural diversity abundantly evident in New York City.
, is a quantitative social psychologist and a graduate of the New School for Social Research. Dr. Cleland is a co-investigator on a study funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which examines AIDS clinical trial participation among ethnic minorities and women. He serves as a statistical consultant for the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research and the Center for the Integration of Research & Practice.
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, is a Principal Investigator with the Center for Technology and Health. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida, and a Licensed Psychologist in the state of Florida. Dr. Dallery received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Emory University in 1999, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Behavioral Pharmacology.
Dr. Dallery’s research involves novel applications of internet-based behavioral interventions for cigarette smoking. He has conducted several studies suggesting that a novel, science-based intervention can promote smoking cessation. The treatment employs breath-based measures of smoking status, which also allows objective verification of treatment effects. In collaboration with colleagues, he is involved in extending the application to high-risk groups such as adolescents, pregnant women, and rural smokers. The intervention eliminates distance as a barrier, which should allow widespread dissemination of an effective behavioral intervention. The results also encourage the application of internet-based technology to other health-related behavior. Accordingly, he is also interested in integrating breath-based diagnostic technology (for medication compliance, blood glucose monitoring, other illicit drugs) with innovations in behavioral treatments. Currently, Dr. Dallery is conducting a randomized trial investigating the short- and long-term efficacy of the internet-based treatment for cigarette smoking.
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is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of substance abuse, and acknowledged as the leading authority on treatment and research in therapeutic communities. He holds a Ph.D. Degree in psychology from Columbia University. He is founder, former Director, and now senior scientist of the Center for Therapeutic Community Research (CTCR) established by a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) grant to the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI). CTCR has also served as a training site for NIDA Humphrey Fellows.
He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine where he provides training in therapeutic community practice and research to psychiatric fellows, psychologists, pre- and post-doctoral graduates, nurses and social workers. He was a Vice President and Director of Research and Evaluation at Phoenix House from its inception through 1988, and served as Director of Research and Training at Therapeutic Communities of America (TCA) from 1988 to 1991. He served as coordinator of the TCA subcommittee on Criminal Justice which developed national standards for accreditation of therapeutic community programs in correctional settings
Dr. De leon has published over 165 scientific papers and chapters, has authored and edited seven books and monographs including The Therapeutic Community: Theory, Model and Method, considered the definitive text in the field. He serves as consulting editor, guest and contributing editor to several national and international journals.
In addition to his research, Dr. De Leon has made notable contributions in the area of professional education and clinical practice. Currently he serves as a senior advisory member of the American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders; the main national organization certifying addiction specialists from all professional disciplines. He serves on the Expert Advisory Committee on Chemical Dependency of the American Psychological Association College of Professional Psychology. He is a founding member of the New York State Psychological Association's Division on Addictions. A founding member of the American Psychological Association's Division 50 on Addictions, on which he also served as president (1996-97).
Dr. De Leon regularly provides clinical practice and research training to treatment agencies, most recently in correctional settings. Additionally, his textbook is the basis for TC national training curricula available through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Some of his own trainings are available on videos from the Addiction Training and Technology Centers (ATTC), Amity Foundation and University of California at San Diego (CCARTA). He has maintained a private clinical practice in New York City for over 40 years
Dr. De Leon is a recipient of several awards including: the Therapeutic Communities of America award for Distinguished Service (1978); the Eugenia Maria De Hostos and Jose Marti award for dedication and contribution to the field of psychology presented by the New York Society of Clinical Psychologists (1984); the award for Distinguished Service to Psychology (1990) presented by the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors (SPAB); the 1993 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Pacesetter Award for Outstanding Leadership in Pioneering Research on the Therapeutic Community Approach to Drug Abuse Treatment; the New York State Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2000); The European Federation of Therapeutic Communities (EFTC) Award for Distinguished Contribution to Science and Practice (2005).
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, is Director of the International Research Core in the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research and a Research Fellow at NDRI. He also serves as the Director of Research for the Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center, and Professor of Epidemiology with the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He
began his research on AIDS in 1982. As a leader in the fields of AIDS and intravenous
drug use, Dr. Des Jarlais has published extensively on these topics. He serves
as a consultant to various institutions, including the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Academy of
Sciences and the World Health Organization. He is a former commissioner of the
National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Dr. Des Jarlais
is currently working on research studies in 20 different countries, and has
accumulated over three million frequent flier miles doing AIDS research.
Selected Publications
is a sociologist and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She has extensive qualitative experience in research and analysis with African-American families, crack users, crack dealers, and with drug-abusing families and households. Her work is rooted in an attempt to understand male-female and family relations and whether and how these relationships contribute to African-American family instability. Dr. Dunlap has conducted intensive ethnographic studies, including lengthy in-depth interview and detailed observations in many African-American households. Some of her research includes: Co-Investigator of large scale ethnographic study entitled Natural History of Crack Distribution/Abuse; an examination of sex for crack in New York City as part of a seven major cities study administered for NIDA by Birch and Davis; an examination of drug dealers family life and violence entitled Violence in Crack User/Seller Households: An Ethnography; a focus upon co-occurring factors entitled Co-Occurring Drugs And Violence In Distressed Households; supplement to focus upon males entitled Males in Distressed Households: Co-occurring Drugs and Violence; an examination of the emerging practice of blunt smoking among youths, use practices, social settings and markets entitled Marijuana/Blunts: Use Subcultures and markets; and an examination of household structures and temporary males in female headed households entitled Transient Domesticity and Violence in Distressed Households. At the present time, Dr. Eloise Dunlap is Principal Investigator of a NIDA grant designed to systematically study changes in illicit drug markets (Including users and distributors) due to Hurricane Katrina in Aug 2005 and the subsequent flooding of much of New Orleans. Study focuses upon illegal drug markets in New Orleans and a comparison, Houston, before Hurricane Katrina and the following months and years. Dr. Dunlap's long-term career goal is to increase public understanding and social processes by which behavioral patterns of aggression and violence are practiced, as well as learned and passed on from one generation to another. She is also working to develop a more accurate and precise conceptual and empirical understanding of the nature, types, and severity of aggression and violence within distressed inner-city African-American families when one or more members participates in crack and/or other drug consumption and/or sales.
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is currently Principal Investigator for a Phase One Small Business Innovations Research Grant funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to develop a culturally and linguistically specific depression screener for deaf adults. Dr. Eckhardt is also Co-Investigator for an R01 funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Communicative Disorders to develop a computerized, self-administered HIV/AIDS Knowledge Survey in American Sign Language (ASL) for use with Deaf high school students and an SBIR grant funded by NIDA to adapt science of addiction curriculum for Deaf high school students. Previous related research includes the development and implementation of surveys in ASL to study substance use, tobacco use, mental health, and HIV with deaf adults. She received her doctoral degree from New York University's School of Social Work, her dissertation analyzed in-depth interviews with deaf adults conducted in ASL to study the ways that Deaf culture influences HIV-related health behaviors.
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(sociology) is a Senior Research Fellow and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Theoretical Synthesis Core in the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research at National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York City. (He is also a prior Director of the Research Methods Core in the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research.) Other appointments include Senior Research Associate at the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Friedman is an author of over 350 publications on HIV, STI, and drug use epidemiology and prevention. Recent research projects have included a review paper (AIDS, 2006) on the social research needs of the AIDS field; a study of social factors, social networks and HIV, STI and other BBVs among youth and drug injectors in a high-risk community; research on the impact of economic and political crises on HIV risk in Buenos Aires; a study of how some long-term drug injectors remain uninfected with HIV and HCV (i.e., how they Stay Safe); a study of socioeconomic and policy predictors of the extent of injection drug use, of HIV epidemics, and of HIV prevention efforts in US metropolitan areas; and research on why women injectors who have sex with women are at enhanced risk for HIV and other infections. He has engaged in many international collaborative projects with the WHO MultiCentre Study of Drugs and HIV and with researchers in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and other countries. He has also written on international HIV topics such as war and HIV; sociopolitical transitions and HIV; and drug users’ organizations (user groups) as actors globally against HIV. He is Associate Editor for Social Science of the International Journal of Drug Policy and is or has recently been on the editorial boards of AIDS, JAIDS, AIDScience, a Web venture for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AIDS Education and Prevention, The Drug and Alcohol Professional, and Harm Reduction Journal. He is a published poet who often presents readings at conferences on HIV/AIDS and/or on preventing drug-related harm.
Recent Publications
is a Deputy Director of the Institute for International Research on Youth at Risk (IIRY) at NDRI; a Co-Investigator on a study of young injection drug users in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; a Co-Investigator on a study of sexually active HIV positive men who have sex with men; and a Co-Investigator on a study of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on drug users in New Orleans. Over the past several years, Dr. Goldsamt has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on NIH-funded studies looking at HIV risk among injection drug users, youth, and men who have sex with men. Dr. Goldsamt has also conducted numerous program and training evaluations, and serves as the Evaluator for NDRI’s Training Institute. Dr. Goldsamt is also a licensed clinical psychologist in New York State, and maintains a psychotherapy practice in Great Neck, N.Y.
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is a Principal Investigator in Institute for AIDS Research and the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research at NDRI. She received her MPH in Public Health Education from Johns Hopkins University and her PhD in Epidemiology from Columbia University. Her research for and about deaf individuals has involved computer based surveys in American Sign Language on drug abuse, mental health and HIV. She has also conducted intervention studies of street-recruited drug users including those who are HIV positive, aimed at improving their use of health and medical services. Dr. Goldstein who maintains a public health focus in her research, has published on these and related topics.
, is a Principal Investigator in The Institute for Special Populations Research. He received his Ph.D. in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University. His research has examined the social dynamics underlying the natural course of drug epidemics, the growth in marijuana and blunt use since the 1990s, the misuse of the "gateway" theory, quality-of-life policing in New York City, the lived experience of inner-city drug users, cohabitation, and issues associated with violence, crime, poverty, and families. In collaboration with colleagues, he has been working on the integration of quantitative and qualitative research. He has received grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program (RWFJ-SAPRP), and the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP).
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, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Principal Investigator in the Institute for AIDS Research at the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. She is the Deputy Director for Intervention Studies Methods and also a Deputy Director in the Theoretical Synthesis Core in the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR). She is the author of over 40 articles on HIV, mental health, drug use, or related topics. Her work concentrates largely on HIV- and mental health related interventions including those in the domains of HIV prevention and secondary prevention, adaptation to HIV among individuals and families, and the amelioration of health disparities. Her involvement with homeless, runaway and street-involved youth dates to the late 1980s. Dr. Gwadz's projects are interdisciplinary, incorporating psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives.
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, is Senior Principal Investigator and Director of the Institute for Biobehavioral Health Research at NDRI. He completed the Statistics and Research Design and Behavioral Medicine doctoral programs at the University of Memphis. He also completed postdoctoral fellowships in Health Psychology with the US Air Force (USAF) and in Cardiovascular Disease with the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum. Dr. Haddock is a military veteran, having served both on activity duty and active reserve of the USAF. He has published over 140 scientific papers, addressing tobacco control, obesity, fitness and work capacity, and cardiovascular disease and has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), DoD, Department of Homeland Security, American Heart Association, and American Legacy Foundation as a Principal or Co-Investigator. His professional affiliations include the American Statistical Association, American Public Health Association, National Strength and Conditioning Association, Association of Military Surgeons in the U.S., and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. He was awarded Fellow status in the Obesity Society for his research on nutrition and weight control. Dr. Haddock has been honored in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Medicine and Health Care, and Who's Who Among America's Teachers. In his leisure time he earned a blackbelt in Busihidokan Karate and has studied Wado-Ryu, American Jiu Jitsu, and Muay Thai and is a certified CrossFit trainer.
, is Director of the North Carolina office of NDRI, the Institute for Community-Based Research (NDRI-NC). The Institute for Community-Based focuses exclusively on drug abuse treatment research. He is the principal investigator on the Clinical Trials Network (CTN); and has been principal investigator on the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS), an ongoing national study of drug abuse treatment and the Treatment Outcome Prospective Study (TOPS), an earlier study initiated in 1976. From 1989 to 1996 he was project director for the Methadone Quality Assurance Project (MTQAS). Dr. Hubbard has demonstrated a career-long commitment to the advancement of science in the drug abuse treatment research field. He and his colleagues authored the book Drug Abuse Treatment: A National Study of Effectiveness, UNC Press, 1989, as well as numerous other studies of alcohol and drug abuse and research methodology. He served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on Substance Abuse Treatment Coverage and on the National Research Council Panel on the Evaluation of AIDS Interventions. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Governor's Institute on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Dr. Hubbard is an acknowledged expert on alcohol and drug abuse survey research methodology, research design, and methods of validating self-reports. He has formal training and considerable experience in psychometric theory, field-based randomized clinical trial designs, survey research design, and multivariate statistical analysis, as well as qualitative case study approaches.
is Program Manager for the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research at NDRI. Ms. Hunter’s responsibilities include providing and arranging trainings on HIV and drug use and developing research to service mechanisms. With many years’ experience in the public health field, she has worked as a drug prevention counselor and trainer in a New York City High School, provided risk-reduction and contraception education to young women at Planned Parenthood and coordinated an HIV CARE Network for service providers and PLWHA’s in Brooklyn. She holds a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan in Population Planning and International Health.
, is a Principal Investigator with the Institute for Biobehavioral Health Research at NDRI. She completed her doctorate in Counseling Psychology with a Health Emphasis at the University of Missouri – Kansas City and the American Heart Associations’ Fellowship on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Jahnke serves as the Principal Investigator of two large-scale studies of the health and readiness of the U.S. Fire Service and has published research on health behaviors of military personnel. Dr. Jahnke has published both qualitative and quantitative articles in the areas of obesity, tobacco, and health behaviors. Dr. Jahnke recently completed the largest qualitative study to date on the culture of health and wellness in the U.S. Fire Service, which was funded by the American Heart Association. She is an active member of the Safety, Health and Survival section of IAFC and is called on regularly to be a consultant on health related topics for that committee. She also was invited to author a white paper for the 3rd Life Safety Summit of the Everyone Goes Home program from the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation as well as a book chapter on health and wellness among firefighters for the Everyone Goes Home text book.
is a psychologist who resides in New York City.
She is the Director of the Center for Therapeutic Community Research
at NDRI. For 20 years, Dr. Jainchill has been involved with substance
abuse research involving therapeutic communities. She is a member
of the Editorial Board of Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. She
is developing and editing a book, Understanding and Treating Adolescent
Substance Use Disorders (Civic Research Institute Publishers). Her
more recent research addresses juvenile justice and issues of reentry
from residential settings, correctional and community-based. Her
areas of focus include adolescents, gender issues, and co-morbidity.
Dr. Jainchill’s projects have been supported by grants from
NIDA, and her research has been widely published. She has one of
the two adolescent research centers funded under the NIDA CJ-DATS
collaborative.
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, is a sociologist who has worked as Principal Research Associate, Project Director and Principal Investigator on several federally-funded grants during his tenure with National Development and Research Institutes and the Center for the Integration of Research and Practice. Dr. Kressel’s main area of research has been therapeutic community (TC) treatment process, including client motivation and readiness for treatment, and the appropriate match between client and treatment modality. He has conducted cross-training in correctional facilities in several states and has actively participated in the development of the national standards for TC treatment in correctional programs sponsored by the US Office of National Drug Control Policy. His current research focuses on the development of comprehensive measures of client clinical progress in community and correctional-based substance abuse treatment. In a recent project Dr. Kressel evaluated the effectiveness of utilizing the clinical progress in treatment instruments as part of a protocol used by staff and clients at Daytop Village to enhance treatment in both residential and outpatient treatment settings. As Principal Investigator on a current NIDA-funded international research project, Dr. Kressel and colleagues are studying TC programs in China, Malaysia and the United States. The research is designed to enhance our understanding of the therapeutic community model of treatment, as it is adapted to varying cultures. Dr. Kressel has assembled an international network of scientists that, through their collaborative work on this study, will foster research, training and the exchange of scientific information; continued initiatives emanating from this new international research community may ultimately modify, improve and expand global substance abuse treatment services.
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, is a principal investigator in the Institute for AIDS Research. Dr. Leonard’s work has focused on developing, delivering, and disseminating behavioral interventions for high-risk youth and adults. Dr. Leonard has also developed expertise in the ethical and efficient recruitment and retention of research participants particularly those from hard to reach populations. Her work with attachment theory has revolved around examining patterns of attachment among high risk youth and the clinical application of these relational styles. Dr. Leonard recently completed an exploratory study examining high-risk adolescent romantic couples’ discussions about condom use and the ways in which these discussions can be used to increase safer sex behaviors. Another research area involves health disparities in regard to the participation of HIV-infected women and people of color in AIDS clinical trials and in the mental health needs of incarcerated juveniles. Finally, Dr. Leonard is currently using participant driven intervention/respondent driven sampling methodology, in several projects, most recently with at-risk young men of color who have sex with men in the Bronx. Dr. Leonard is an adjunct assistant professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she teaches theory and technique of psychotherapy with children and adolescents.
, is a Senior Principal Investigator in The Institute for Special Populations Research and in Social Science Innovations Corp., the for-profit sister organization to NDRI. He is a licensed psychologist specializing in measurement of drug use by various means and the statistical evaluation of social programs. He received his PhD in 1986 from the City University of New York. He has been a principal investigator on a variety of projects including a study to test a slightly heated sweat collection device called a Fastpatch. This project, "Detecting Crack and Other Cocaine with Fastpatches," was the first study to detect unique crack pyrolysis metabolites in sweat which form when crack is smoked or cocaine is freebased. When this product is marketed, it will allow testers to not only determine if cocaine was used, but also if the mode of consumption was through smoking. He also was Principal Investigator on a meta-analysis grant comparing self-report of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use with biological indicators (e.g. urinalysis) or collateral reports (e.g., spouse, case worker) and will produce an accessible database available from a website. His earlier research evaluated the effectiveness of a specialized therapeutic community (TC) for homeless, substance abusing men operated from a public shelter. His publication from this project "Dynamic Recovery" is one of the more frequently sited (e.g. NIDA Notes) examples of a successful adaptation of the TC model for a special population. Currently, he has several projects to develop online, interactive courses about topics related to substance abuse and HIV including "HIV Confidentiality Training" for New York State service providers and "Using CAI to Enhance Drug Tx Staff HCV Knowledge and Communication Skills," “Web-based Course on Traumatic Brain Injury and Substance Abuse” and “Online Training for Methadone Maintenance Treatment Providers.” Each of these courses, when they go online in 2010 will be self-directed, allowing individuals to proceed at their own pace. They will be highly interactive, with prompts, questions, case studies implemented with audio and video as well as interactive graphics. These courses will be tailored, allowing individuals to match the level and type of detail to their specific job function including examples and case studies that pertain to their particular occupation. As a check on content covered and learned, quizzes will be administered throughout the course and certificates of completion will be given to individuals stating both the modules and specific content areas completed.
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, is a Principal Investigator with the Center for Technology and Health. A clinical-developmental psychologist, Dr. Lord received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder and completed an internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dr. Lord’s research activities focus on the development, evaluation and dissemination of technology-based prevention and assessment tools for adolescent, young adult, and parent populations, primarily in the areas of substance abuse and HIV prevention. Current interests include use of mobile technologies to promote HIV health service utilization and preventive behaviors among high-risk adolescents and young adults, development of youth-driven online drug use prevention programs, and computer-delivered programs for parents of adolescents to promote parent-youth communication about drug use prevention. Dr. Lord has served as Principal Investigator 12 NIH-funded projects in the areas of adolescent HIV/STI, tobacco, alcohol, and drug use prevention. While in the private sector, Dr. Lord also worked extensively with community leaders, health educators, college health professionals and marketing staff to develop strategies for sustainable dissemination and implementation of computer-delivered prevention initiatives targeted toward adolescents and young adults. Dr. Lord is currently PI on a NIDA-supported project to examine the feasibility and acceptance of an online training program for parents to promote parent-youth communication about drug use (1R21DA026545-01.)
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is Director of the Training Institute at NDRI. He has over 20 years experience in training, curriculum writing, program development and management specializing in the public health fields of substance abuse and sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS. Mr. Lunievicz has lead training initiatives and curriculum writing teams on HIV and Drug Treatment Curriculum including the following regional and national training initiatives: Cultural Prificiency Issues, Care Coordination for Adherence to HIV, and Consensus and Evidence Based Practices for Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders. In addition to managing both regional and national projects he has worked extensively with local and national drug court initiatives specializing in Cultural Proficiency Issues, Treatment Modalities, Teambuilding, Presentation Skills, and Understanding and Coping with Participant Relapse. He has presented at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals annual conference and at state conferences across the country. Mr. Lunievicz is also co-investigator on a number of NIDA funded projects to develop computer assisted training on subjects such as: The New York State HIV Confidentiality Law, Methamphetamine Treatment for Drug Court Practitioners, Hepatitis C Knowledge and Communication Skills for Drug Treatment Workers, Traumatic Brain Injury and Substance Abuse, and Methadone Maintenance Treatment Practitioner Knowledge and Values. In addition Mr. Lunievicz has been a curriculum collaborator and trainer on a number of other research and intervention projects. Mr. Lunievicz has also spent years overseas in the United States Peace Corp in Central American where he conducted cross cultural projects with small businesses and health promotion programs and speaks Spanish as a second language.
, is a Senior Principal Investigator in
the Institute for Treatment and Services Research. His current
research involves an effectiveness trial of mutual aid groups for
persons in recovery from co-occurring substance use and psychiatric
disorders, and a randomized clinical trial of buprenorphine
treatment in jail for inmates addicted to opioids. He is the former
Deputy Executive Director and Director of Science and Research at
NDRI. In July 2007 he assumed the position of Director of the
Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, where he also
administers the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Evaluation.
Selected Publications
is the Director of the Center for Technology and Health (CTH) at NDRI. She is also a Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. Dr. Marsch received her Ph.D. degree in Experimental Psychology and Behavioral Pharmacology at the University of Vermont. Dr. Marsch has extensive research experience in the areas of substance abuse treatment with both adults and adolescents, substance abuse prevention with youth, and HIV prevention with various drug-using populations.
She has conducted numerous research studies focused on examining how technology can be used to enhance the reach of science-based prevention and treatment interventions. She has directed several projects focused on developing and evaluating interactive, computer-based systems that deliver evidence-based interventions using effective learning and informational technologies, including computer-based behavioral therapy for adult substance abusers, HIV prevention for injection drug users, HIV and STI prevention for young drug users, and substance abuse prevention for children and adolescents. This research has provided novel empirical information regarding the role that technology may play in improving substance abuse prevention and treatment in a manner that is cost-effective, ensures fidelity and enables the rapid diffusion and widespread adoption of science-based interventions.
Dr. Marsch’s research activities have also included the development and evaluation of novel behavioral and pharmacological treatments for the growing and under-studied cohort of opioid-dependent adolescents. She published the first systematic, clinical research evaluating treatments for opioid-dependent adolescents. This ongoing research continues to generate new empirical information that can be used to inform evidence-based treatment for this group of youth. She have given numerous talks about this research around the world and served as a consultant to the World Health Organization on issues related to the development of international treatment guidelines for opioid-dependent adolescents.
Dr. Marsch is a recipient of an Early Career Investigator Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence. She serves as a scientific reviewer for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Mental Health. Dr. Marsch is also on the editorial boards for the Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, Substance Use and Misuse, and Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
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is the Program Manager for the Training Institute at NDRI. Her responsibilities include training and managing on and off-site contract trainings; AIDS Institute’s Regional Training Center and dissemination aspects of the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research. She also works on SAMHSA’s COCE (Co-Occurring Center for Excellence) where she developed a training matrix to assess training curricula on co-occurring disorders) and developed trainings on evidence-based and consensus-based practices for persons with COD. In addition, she conducts “Training of Trainers” nationally for SAMHSA’s TIP #42, the “Substance Abuse Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders.” Mary is also a training consultant on substance abuse, mental illness and HIV/AIDS. She has worked for a number of agencies nationwide: Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA), National Association for Drug Abuse Problems (NADAP) and the National Drug Court Initiative (NDCI). She is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and has worked with many welfare-to-work programs. Mary has worked with several government agencies such as Probation, Social Services and the Peace Corps. She has also worked at Gracie Square Hospital on their substance abuse unit “Breakthrough” and the “Dual Focus” unit. Mary also teaches at New York University in the Department of Applied Psychology. She has a Master's degree from NYU and a Bachelor degree from the State University of New York at Albany.
specializes in the development of instruments which measure the effects of various research activities. His initial work, supported by federal funding, compared motivation and readiness for treatment across several special populations of substance abusers, and resulted in the Circumstance, Motivation and Readiness Scales, which measures motivation in different substance abuse treatment modalities. Subsequent research developed the Client Matching Protocol to characterize client referrals to outpatient and residential substance abuse treatment programs, and the Survey of Essential Elements Questionnaire (long and short forms) that measures the extent to which programs utilize the elements of therapeutic community treatment. At present, Dr. Melnick is engaged in programmatic research to evaluate the effectiveness of prison- and community-based substance abuse treatment programs through the application of the Multi-modality Quality Assurance Instrument, which he developed to generate a better understanding of organizational characteristics, program policies, and treatment goals and elements. Within this effort, he is investigating the role of organizational variables in substance abuse treatment efficacy, and is developing additional instruments to assess the use of therapeutic community treatment elements. Dr. Melnick is also making substantial contributions to two criminal justice studies, one to evaluate the effects of stigma on recidivism among first time nonviolent felons; the other a national initiative to conduct multi-site studies of the correctional system. Dr. Melnick has been with NDRI since 1991 and on staff at the Center for the Integration of Research Practice since its inception.
is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. His research in behavioral science has been funded by NIMH, NIDA, NIAID, HRSA, CDC, NIAAA, and SAMHSA. He has conducted both qualitative and quantitative studies of sexual risk behavior among African American males, male prostitutes, injection drug users, HIV infected men and women, and the children of HIV infected women. He has served as an HIV prevention consultant to the VA and to the Executive Office of Drug Policy. He has published widely in the fields of HIV, HCV, high risk sexual behavior, injection drug use and other substance use. At NDRI's Institute for Special Populations' Research, Dr. Morse is a Co-Investigator on an NICHD-funded project (R01HD059706).
, is a Project Director in the Institute for AIDS Research. She currently coordinates the Enhancing HIV Partner Notification (PN) through Peer Education grant, funded through the National Institute for Mental Health. The purpose of the grant is to modify an existing pilot curriculum that trains HIV+ peers to communicate about PN, based on the results of focus groups with HIV positive persons and interviews with service providers from 3 sources: a drug treatment program, an HIV primary care medical clinic, and a community service agency for HIV+ individuals. In addition, Ms. Munoz-Plaza’s professional interests also include adolescent and women’s health, health and medical service issues for the underserved, injury prevention, and utilizing qualitative methods in evaluating public health programs and services.
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earned a PhD in sociology from Case Western Reserve
University, specializing in medical sociology, and completed three years of post-doctoral
training in psychiatric epidemiology from Columbia University. At NDRI since
1996, he has been Project Director on two large studies of substance abuse and
HIV/STD infection in street-based populations. He is currently the Principal
Investigator of a large cohort study of HIV/STD infection among male-to-female
transgender persons in the New York Metropolitan Area. His research interests
include applications of social psychological identity theory, the inter-relationships
among homelessness, substance use and psychiatric symptomatology, and HIV/STD
infection in high-risk groups.
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, is Senior Advisor to the Training Institute/Director Emeritus. Responsibilities
include disseminating appropriate behavioral science research findings to treatment
and prevention practitioners. He has 20 years of progressive management experience
in curriculum/program design and professional in-service training in the areas
of Public Health and Employment Training. Areas of expertise include: Substance
Abuse Prevention/Intervention/Treatment, Drug Pharmacology, Assessment Interviewing,
Pregnant Substance Abusers, Drug Exposed Children, Children of Substance Abusers,
Cultural Competency, Stages of Behavioral Change, Human Sexuality, Sexually
Transmitted Infections, HIV/AIDS, and Relapse Prevention. Andrew Osborne is
the former Director of Day Treatment, N.Y.C. Department of Probation in addition
to being a consultant for the State Education Department, N.Y.C. Board of Education,
CUNY, Fordham University, Teachers College of Columbia University, the National
Drug Court Training Institute and The American University School of Public Affairs.
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, sociologist, is a Principal
Investigator in the Center for the Integration of Research and Practice at
NDRI. Most of his work has had a focus on statistical research evaluating
the effectiveness of treatment/intervention programs. From 1983 to 1994 he
was Associate Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers
University, where he was Co-Principal Investigator or Study Director
of several funded research projects in criminology (with Jackson Toby). Since
joining NDRI in 1994 as a Project Director, his research work has expanded
to include evaluation research on several different treatment programs for
a variety of problems other than (or in addition to) criminality. From 1994
through 1998 he was Project Director for a federally funded review and analysis
of evaluation studies conducted between 1968 and 1994 of correctional interventions
and treatment programs for offenders (Douglas Lipton, PI); the results help
provide policy makers and social scientists with answers to the questions “what
works? with whom? and under what circumstances?” From 1999 through
2004 he was Project Director and Statistician on an evaluation of a treatment
program for homeless families, the Family & Aftercare Model (Joann Sacks,
PI). This program is a residential therapeutic community for homeless women
who have substance abuse and psychiatric problems, and who are raising dependent
children. Since September of 2003, Dr. Pearson has been Senior Project Director
for CIRP projects conducted under the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment
Research Studies initiative at the NDRI Colorado Research Center (Harry Wexler & Stan
Sacks, PIs), one of nine national sites funded by the National Institutes
of Health to develop and apply research on effective drug treatment services
and criminal justice practices to improve offender outcomes. Another of his
current major responsibilities is that of Principal Investigator on the Evidence-based
Principles of Treatment (EPT) project [see description on this website],
which will assess the research evidence base for several recommendations
of best ways to structure and deliver treatment for drug abuse.
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, is a Senior Principal Investigator at that National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI) and serves as Deputy Director for the Institute for Biobehavioral Health Research at NDRI. He has graduate degrees in the behavioral sciences (University of California, Santa Barbara) and in community health and epidemiology (University of Texas Houston Health Science Center, School of Public Health). Dr. Poston completed postdoctoral fellowships in Behavioral Health Psychology (Wilford Hall Medical Center) and in Cardiovascular Health (American Hospital Association Health Forum). His research focuses primarily in the areas of obesity, tobacco control, and cardiovascular disease prevention with an emphasis on minority populations and military and first-responder health. He has been a principal investigator or co-investigator on grants from the American Heart Association (AHA), the American Legacy Foundation, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Digestive Disorders and Kidney Diseases, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Department of Defense US Army Medical Research and Material Command, and the Department of Homeland Security/FEMA. He also has been the recipient of a Minority Scientist Development award from AHA. Dr. Poston has served as a charter member on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Community Level Health Promotion Study Section and as an ad hoc member on a number of other NIH study section and special emphasis panels. He is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, the American Heart Association’s Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, and The Obesity Society: the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. He was a Cardiovascular Health Fellow with the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum (2001-2002). Dr. Poston has published over 170 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has presented at numerous national and international conferences and meetings on the etiology, assessment, and management of obesity, cardiovascular disease, and tobacco use.
is a Project Director with the Center for Technology and Health, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida. Dr. Raiff received her PhD in Psychology, with an emphasis in Behavioral Pharmacology, from the University of Florida in 2008.
Dr. Raiff's primary research activities involve studying how drugs of abuse affect behavior and improving methods to assess and treat drug abuse and other problem behavior. Thus far her research has focused on the behavioral effects of nicotine, in both human and nonhuman laboratories, and in investigating novel behavioral treatments for smoking cessation. With nonhumans, Dr. Raiff has explored whether and to what extent nicotine increases the incentive value of certain non-pharmacological stimuli, such as food, visual stimuli, and conditioned reinforcers. These effects may help us understand a number of important features of smoking acquisition, maintenance, and relapse. On the other end of the spectrum, Dr. Raiff is refining and testing an Internet-based abstinence-reinforcement treatment for cigarette smoking, in collaboration with Dr. Jesse Dallery. Dr. Raiff also recently extended an Internet-based monitoring system to increase medical regimen adherence in adolescents diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Dr. Raiff is the recipient of a National Research Service Award from NIH, is Co-Investigator on two NIH-funded grants R01DA019580 and R01DA019580 , and is Principal Investigator on an NIH grant to study Internet-based glucose monitoring in adolescents, which recently received a score placing it in the third percentile for funding.
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is the Director of the Institute for Treatment and Services Research at NDRI. He has served as principal investigator, co-investigator and project director on several research projects on substance use including innovative interventions for the treatment of cocaine dependence, a clinical trial comparing methadone and buprenorphine treatment inmates in jail and at post-release, an evaluation of a treatment linkage model for street-based sex workers, and prevalence and correlates of chronic pain among drug and alcohol users. He currently serves as PI on a project that is evaluating a protocol for the use of sublingual buprenorphine for the treatment of chronic pain and on a nationwide prevalence study of prescription opioid abuse. He is also the co-investigator/project director on an experimental evaluation of self-help groups for consumers with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders (Double Trouble in Recovery; DTR) and as a co-investigator on a project to develop and evaluate online training modules for methadone maintenance treatment providers.
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Dr. Sacks has garnered exceptional administrative, managerial, and multi-site research expertise during nearly three decades of clinical, programmatic, and research activities. As Deputy Executive Director of a New York City treatment agency with a staff of over 250, Dr. Sacks led the development and supervised the operation of a continuum of 22 residential and outpatient treatment programs for homeless men and women with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. In her role as Deputy Director of the NDRI Center for the Integration of Research and Practice (CIRP) and Principal Investigator at NDRI, she has been actively involved in federally-funded studies of addicted women and men (with and without co-occurring mental disorders) who are also homeless, living with HIV/AIDS, or in the criminal justice system. Her research places special emphasis on the gender-specific issues (such as trauma and abuse) of addicted women in criminal justice and community treatment, and on the effect of the sequela of substance abuse on children and the family unit. During the past decade, she has managed nine research projects conducting multi-site evaluations of treatment programs for substance abusing individuals, many with co-occurring mental illness. Dr. Sacks also has provided leadership to a federally-funded national center of excellence in co-occurring disorders, providing technical assistance and training that assisted 39 states in improving their infra-structure and treatment capacity for serving individuals with COD. She currently provides similar technical assistance leadership for the NYSHealth Foundation “Center of Excellence in Integrated Care” for New York State residents with co-occurring disorders.
, a clinical-research psychologist, is the Director of the Center for the Integration of Research & Practice at National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), Inc. in New York City. Dr. Sacks and the staff of CIRP specialize in technology transfer that infuses evidence- and consensus-based approaches into clinical practice. He is currently the Principal Investigator on several NIDA and SAMHSA- funded studies and Co-PI on the NDRI Rocky Mountain Research Center of the NIDA-funded Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment System. The author of numerous publications, Dr. Sacks was the Chair and Lead Author for the Treatment Improvement Protocol #42, Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders. He is also Expert Leader on SAMHSA’s Co-occurring Center for Excellence, a national effort to provide training and technical assistance to States and agencies in the area of co-occurring disorders. Dr. Sacks, a baseball aficionado and weather maven, is married and the father of two children. He has four grandchildren.
, is an ethnographer who specializes in HIV prevention among poor women and drug users, and has worked extensively with urban, minority drug-using populations in the Northeast. She has been involved in research in the following topic areas: women, poverty and AIDS, intimate partner violence, drug-using couples, trauma and secondary trauma, and field-based research ethics. Dr. Simmons has worked on a variety of NIDA-funded prevention studies at the Hispanic Health Council (HHC) in Hartford, CT. While at HHC, she was awarded a development grant by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale University to explore the special characteristics, meaning and behavioral importance of relationships among drug-using couples. Dr. Simmons is also co-editor and co-author (with Drs. Paul Farmer and Margaret Connors) of Women, Poverty and AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence which received the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for outstanding scholarship in gender and health from the Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association. During 2005-07, Dr. Simmons was a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in NDRI’s Behavioral Science Training in Drug Abuse Research Program. Currently, she is engaged in ethnographic research at NDRI as the Principal Investigator of a NIDA-funded HIV prevention study on the interpersonal and structural dynamics which shape HIV risk and drug treatment among injecting, drug-using couples in Harlem and the South Bronx (R21DA022960).
works as co-investigator for the Community Vulnerability and Response to IDU-related HIV study at the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research. She holds the MA degree from City University of New York, in Geography specializing in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the Geography of Health and Disease, and was awarded a Master of Public Health in June 1997 from City University of New York. Dr. Tempalski received a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Washington in Seattle May 2005. Her doctoral research focused on the geographic variability in syringe exchange programs in the US. Her current research focuses on geographic variability in injection drug use related-HIV transmission and program response. Internationally, her work has focused on vector disease control policies in Egypt, and West Africa, and women's reproductive health policies in Nepal.
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has been involved in drug treatment program planning, research, evaluation and outcome studies since the late 1980s. His professional expertise includes interviewer training, coordinating longitudinal follow-up studies, and locating and interviewing hard to reach populations for clinical and research purposes. His award winning doctoral dissertation in Criminal Justice (Reisenbach Foundation Award) investigated the long-term recovery process from heroin use and focused on ex-offenders who maintained abstinence for a period of five or more years. He served as an evaluator of several prison-based therapeutic communities for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and consults to various research organizations on Research Interview Design, Quality Control, and Interviewer Training and Administration. He is a Research Scientist member of the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse (NHSN) and is one of the founders and former Editor of the NHSN Newsletter El Faro: La Voz de la Red. He was recently elected Chair of the NHSN Early Career Leadership Committee and is a member of the Steering Committee for that organization. Dr. Tiburcio is former Project Director of two federally funded and one privately funded studies in the Institute for Treatment Services Research at NDRI. The NIDA-funded STOP HEP C Project examined the nationwide drug treatment response to the hepatitis C virus. Project STAR, an acronym for “Staff Training on Alcohol Reduction,” was devoted to the development of a state-of-the-art HIV care provider training to encourage the implementation of NIAAA’s screening and brief intervention (NIAAA’s BI) in Designated AIDS Centers (DACs) in New York City. Presently in the Institute for Special Populations Research, Dr. Tiburcio is Co- Investigator of a NIDA grant designed to systematically study changes in illicit drug markets (including use and distribution) resulting from Hurricane Katrina in Aug 2005. The subsequent flooding of much of New Orleans displaced illegal drug markets and distribution networks. This study is examining the reformulation of these networks, and the development of similar networks in Houston, Baton Rouge and other host cities housing New Orleans Evacuees (NOE’s).
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, is currently Principal Investigator of a study on the role of social networks in methamphetamine distribution in New York City (funded by the National Institute of Justice) and Co-Investigator/Ethnographer of the ongoing National HIV Behavioral Survey (NHBS), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. From 2005-7, he served as Project Director of two previous NHBS studies of behavioral risk factors for HIV and Hepatitis C infection among injection drug users and heterosexuals at high risk for HIV. Previously he served as Project Director on the Lower East Side Trafficking study (funded by NIJ) and Senior Research Associate on the Heroin in the Twenty-First Century study (funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse). His research interests center around social networks and HIV risk and the social organization of the distribution and consumption of illegal commodities. Prior to entering upon a research career, he worked as a bicycle messenger, cook and nightclub bouncer.
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, has acquired a national reputation in the areas
of substance abuse policy, treatment and research during the last 35 years.
He is best known for his landmark studies of the effectiveness of the therapeutic
community in the community, prisons and aftercare, which established prison
treatment programs in 20 states. Often credited with contributing to the
acceptance of prison-based drug treatment nationwide, this research demonstrated
the effectiveness of prison treatment particularly when coupled with aftercare,
and has had considerable impact on the field. The California Department
of Corrections presented Dr. Wexler with a Pioneer Award in recognition
of his role in expanding aftercare services for offenders. Dr. Wexler was
the Co-Chair of a recent Treatment Improvement Protocol, Substance Abuse
Treatment for Adults in the Criminal Justice System, and is the Principal
Investigator on two current government-funded projects studying elements
of prison treatment, community re-entry, and the effectiveness of sealing
records as a method of reducing recidivism by eliminating stigma. He has
written numerous articles, has co-authored a book on substance abuse treatment
for women, and has served as co-editor of special issues of the Prison
Journal. In June 2007 Dr. Wexler was appointed as a member of the Governor's Strike Team to help guide the process of reforming the California correctional system. Dr. Wexler has been with NDRI since 1977 and a senior staff member of the Center for the Integration of Research Practice since its inception.
Currently, Dr Wexler is retired from his 32 year career at NDRI while serving as an NDRI project consultant. He is also practicing clinical psychology in New York and Laguna Beach, writing a book on later male development, and is a blogger for Psychology Today. He also lectures internationally and serves as an advisor for correctional and rehabilitation policy in the US and other countries.
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