ARG receives re-designation as a Collaborating Center thru to September 2019. Congratulations to Cheryl Cherpitel, DrPH, for her successful direction of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center on Alcohol Epidemiology and Injury over the past four years. From her leadership, and the support of a highly skilled research team, ARG has been re-designated as a Collaborating Center through to September 2019. Since 2011, Cherpitel and her colleagues have made significant contributions to research on … [Read more...]
News & Events
ARG Scientists Present at APHA
ARG scientists will be in Chicago at the end of October to present at the American Public Health Association (APHA)'s Annual Meeting and Exposition with talks focused on alcohol-related heath issues and outcomes. Conference highlights include a panel on November 3 when ARG researchers will present new findings on health disparities from the National Alcohol Survey. Beginning at 2:30 pm, Camillia Lui discusses differences in education among heavy drinkers using age-period cohort analysis. She … [Read more...]
New Grant Awarded to Study Cannabis Use & Treatment Outcomes
Congratulations to ARG Biostatistician Meenakshi Sabina Subbaraman, PhD, who received a grant to study how cannabis use affects alcohol treatment outcomes. The new project, funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R21 AA023039), will use advanced statistical methods to better understand how cannabis use among individuals recovering from alcohol use disorders affects drinking after treatment. Expert opinion on the topic is mixed. Some suggest that among … [Read more...]
New Fall Seminar Series Announced
The Fall Advanced Alcohol Research Seminar, offered from September to December 2015, operates through UC Berkeley and presents research and lectures on epidemiology, prevention and intervention, and theory and methodology related to alcohol and potentially other drugs. This seminar, taught and facilitated by Sarah Zemore, PhD, and co-led by Drs. Lee Kaskutas and Cheryl Cherpitel, features presentations by renowned scientists in the field of alcohol research both internal and external to ARG. The … [Read more...]
Alcohol & Pregnancy Grant Funded
William C. Kerr heads up the ARG team on a new study in collaboration with Sarah Roberts, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Sarah is also a public health social scientist at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and former postdoctoral fellow at ARG. The study will look at the associations between state-level punitive and supportive policies targeting alcohol use during pregnancy … [Read more...]
Environmental Effects on AUD
Scientist Katherine Karriker-Jaffe received a subaward for a project that seeks to clarify how environmental adversity at the individual, family and community level and genetic risk jointly contribute to the development of alcohol use disorders (AUD). Kate will be working with Multiple PIs Kenneth Kendler from Virginia Commonwealth University and Kristina Sundquist of Lund University in Sweden. While the study will use Swedish data, the findings will be highly relevant to the US and other … [Read more...]
New Recovery Study Funded
Associate Scientist, Amy Mericle, recently received NIDA funding (R21 DA 039027) for a project that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) adults who face unique health disparities. Within this community, men who have sex with men (MSM) are at increased risk for substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and other adverse health conditions. Addiction recovery residences are a promising mechanism to enhance outcomes among individuals who abuse substances, but the experiences of … [Read more...]
NIAAA and NIDA Fund New Projects
This past fall several key projects were funded through the National Institutes on Alcohol and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). First up, William C. Kerr’s study that looks at the inter-relationship between life-course drinking patterns and health conditions. A four-year project, Kerr and colleagues will examine the effects of alcohol use over a lifetime, including social and economic hardships and racial and ethnic differences in factors that may contribute … [Read more...]
Alcohol Research Seminar is in Session
The spring Advanced Alcohol Research Seminar, offered from January to May 2015, operates through UC Berkeley and presents research and lectures on epidemiology, prevention and intervention, and theory and methodology related to alcohol and potentially other drugs. This seminar, taught and facilitated by Sarah Zemore, PhD, and co-led by Drs. Lee Kaskutas and Cheryl Cherpitel, features presentations by renowned scientists in the field of alcohol research both inside and outside ARG. The current … [Read more...]
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