This year’s meeting, from Oct. 24-28, features a mix of live and on-demand sessions focusing on the 2020 theme, “Creating the Healthiest Nation: Preventing Violence”, the COVID-19 pandemic and many other public health topics and issues.
ARG scientists will be participating in oral presenters, round table discussions, and poster presentations – all virtually.
Sunday, October 25
2:00pm – 3:00pm MT: Addressing Alcohol-Related Problems (2022)
Poster: Quantifying risk of injury from alcohol consumption: An instrumental variable analysis
Yu Ye, Joseph Terza, William C. Kerr, Cheryl J. Cherpitel
Monday, October 26
1:00pm – 2:00pm MT: Alcohol Use Disorder Interventions and Research: Focusing on Subpopulations in Communities (3148)
Poster: Alcohol consumption, beverage preference, and chronic conditions in Asian Americans
Won K. Cook, Christina Tam, William C. Kerr, Nina Mulia, Libo Li
12:30pm – 1:00pm MT: Tobacco Control Policies (RT13)
12:30-1:00pm MT Presentation: Which community colleges have adopted smoke-free policies? Differences by geography and community policies
Camillia Lui, Deidre Patterson, Nina Mulia, Yu Ye, Sang Leng Trieu
1:00pm – 2:30pm MT: Costs and Access to Substance Use Interventions (3170)
1:42pm MT Presentation: Medicaid expansion’s impact on alcohol and opioid treatment admissions in racial/ethnic groups
Nina Mulia, Camillia K. Lui, Kara M. Bensley, Meenakshi S. Subbaraman
Tuesday, October 27
8:30am – 10:00am MT: Alcohol and Violence: Evidence and Implications (4003)
8:58am MT Presentation: Toxicological testing of suicide decedents in the national violent death reporting system: Trends and differences across participating states
Kara Bensley; William C. Kerr, Bentson H. McFarland, Raul Caetano, Mark S. Kaplan, Shannon Monnat, Norman Giesbrecht
9:12am MT Presentation: Mental health implications of having heavy drinkers in your life: The mediating role of exposure to alcohol-related violence
Deidre Patterson, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, Thomas K. Greenfield
3:00pm – 4:30pm MT: Cannabis Policy, Legalization and Associated Outcomes (4265)
3:42pm MT Presentation: Characteristics of the Washington cannabis market from 2014 to 2016
William Kerr, Yu Ye
Wednesday, October 28
10:30am – 12:00pm MT Impact of Alcohol Policies in Reducing Harms (5055)
10:44am MT Presentation: Differential effects of beverage-specific taxes on alcohol-related harms across demographic subgroups
Meenakshi Subbaraman, Nina Mulia, William C. Kerr, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe
11:12am MT Presentation: The high cost of the 4 a.m. bar bill in Los Angeles: A cost-benefit analysis
William Kerr, Meenakshi S. Subbaraman, Bruce C. Livingston
11:26am MT Presentation: The alcohol location interactive simulation tool: A simulation model designed to inform alcohol policy decisions and prevent harms
Pamela Trangenstein, Alexandra Nielsen, Katerine Gora Combs, Rachel Coe, Cassie Greisen
