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Constance Weisner, Dr.P.H., M.S.W.
constance.weisner@kp.org
Background Information and
Areas of Research
Constance
Weisner is a professor at the University
of California at San Francisco’s department of psychiatry and
an investigator at the Northern California Kaiser Permanente’s division
of research. She is also an emeritus senior scientist at ARG.
Weisner serves as
principal investigator of research grants funded by the National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and National Institute on Drug
Abuse. Her studies examine access, utilization, and the cost
effectiveness of alcohol and drug treatment across public and private
sector programs.
She was a member
of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee that produced the recent
report on
“Improving
the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance Use Conditions,”
as well as IOM studies on “Broadening
the Base of Treatment for Alcohol Problems
and
Managing Managed
Care: Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health.”
She is a member of the World Health Organization’s expert advisory panel
on drug dependence and alcohol problems and has been a member of the
National Advisory Council of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
Selected Publications
- Weisner, Constance; Greenfield, Thomas &
Room, Robin. (1995). Trends in the treatment of alcohol problems in
the U.S. general population, 1979 through 1990. American Journal
of Public Health, 85(1), 55-60. (B640)
- Data from the 1979, 1984, and 1990
National Alcohol Surveys (N7, N8, N9). Revised and condensed from
F277 & E384; the latter was presented at American Public Health
Assoc. Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 8-12, 1992.
- Weisner, Constance & Schmidt, Laura.
(1993). Alcohol and drug problems among diverse health and social
service populations. American Journal of Public Health,
83(6), 824-829. (B563)
- Data from the 1988 general population
survey, 1987 alcohol treatment survey, 1985 emergency room survey,
1986 mental health survey, 1988 primary health survey, 1989 criminal
justice survey, 1989 welfare survey, and 1987 drug treatment survey
of the Community Epidemiology Laboratory.
- Weisner, Constance & Schmidt, Laura A.
(1995). Expanding the frame of health services research in the drug
abuse field. Health Services Research, 30(5), 707-727. (B687)
- Analysis of 9 CEL data sets. Technical
Review, Health Services.
- Wiley, Jim & Weisner, Constance. (1995).
Drinking in violent and nonviolent events preceding arrest: Evidence
from a survey of arrestees. Journal of Criminal Justice,
23(5), 461-476. (B691)
- Examines whether different drinking
patterns versus drinking in the event is related to violence.
- McLellan, A. Thomas & Weisner,
Constance. (1996). Achieving the public health and safety potential
of substance abuse treatments: Implications for patient referral,
treatment "matching," and outcome evaluations. In Warren
K. Bickel & Richard J. DeGrandpre (Eds.), Drug Policy and
Human Nature: Psychological Perspectives on the Prevention,
Management and Treatment of Illicit Drug Abuse (pp. 127-151).
New York: Plenum Press. (B731)
- Humphreys, K. & Weisner, C. (2000) Use
of exclusion criteria in selecting research subjects and its effect
on the generaliazability of alcohol treatment outcome studies. American
Journal of Psychiatry, 57, 588-594. (B867)
- Weisner, C., Mertens, J. Parthasarathy, S.,
Moore, C., Hu, T. W., Hunkeler, E. & Selby, J. (2000). Outcome
and cost alcohol and drug treatment in an HMO: Day hospital versus
traditional outpatinet. Health Services Research, 35(4),
791-810.
- Weisner, C., McLellan, A. T. & Hunkeler,
E. (2000). Addiction Severity Index data from general membership and
treatment samples of HMO members: One case of norming the ASL. Journal
of Substance Abuse Treatment, 19, 103-109.
- Smith, W. & Weisner, C. (2000). Alcohol
problems in women: Making the case for gender-specific research. FrontLines,
June, 1-2,8.
- Weisner, C. (in press). The provision of
services for alcohol problems: A community perspective for
understanding access. Journal of Behavior Health Services and
Research.
Other ARG Publications of This Author
Grants Information
Outcome and Cost of Day Hospital vs. Outpatient
Care, R37 AA10359
Analysis of Managed Care Adolescent Treatment
Study, CSAT/SAMSHSA 00M007436
Long-term Impact of Drug Treatment: Outcome and
Cost, NIDA R01 DA08728
Impact
of Services on Problem Drinking Trajectories, NIAAA R01 AA09750
Pathways to Substance Abuse Treatment for
Adolescents in an HMO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Epidemiology
of Alcohol Problems, P50 AA05595
- Component 3: 2004 National Alcohol Survey
(NAS11)
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