Research Associate IV Deidre Patterson, MPH, is a research associate IV at the Alcohol Research Group. She received her undergraduate degrees in psychology from Brooklyn College (CUNY) and her MPH in Community Health from Hunter College (CUNY). She works on diverse topics including economic conditions and alcohol problems and alcohol-related problem and consumption measurement. Other research interests include ethnic variation in drinking behavior, disparities in alcohol behaviors and … [Read more...]
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The Ripple Effect of Substance Use: How Alcohol and Drugs Harm Others
A study based on nationally representative data from the 2020 U.S. National Alcohol Survey finds that one in three adults has experienced secondhand harms from someone else's drinking—ranging from family conflict to physical injury. While alcohol remains the most common source of harm, nearly 1 in 7 people report harms from others’ drug use, including cannabis, opioids, and other drugs. These harms frequently overlap across substances and are more likely to affect women, people with a family … [Read more...]
COVID-19 study finds striking differences in access to health care during the pandemic
US national study reveals disparities in general and behavioral health care receipt, suggests telehealth is a vital bridge to care for traditionally underserved groups during the pandemic A new study published today in Preventive Medicine found that, during the first year of the pandemic, Hispanic/Latinx individuals and lower-income individuals were less likely to receive needed health care when compared to White individuals and people with higher incomes. Led by researchers at the Alcohol … [Read more...]
COVID-19 Study Finds More Drinking, but Fewer Drinkers
US national study compares alcohol consumption before COVID-19 to after and finds significant changes in who is drinking and how much Emeryville, CA (June 26, 2022) — A new study published today in the journal, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, found that alcohol consumption patterns changed significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, when compared to the pre-pandemic period. While the proportions of the population that was drinking and drinking with a risky pattern declined, … [Read more...]
New Grant Explores Changes in Alcohol Use and Mental Health Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The pandemic continues to impact our lives in ways we're still struggling to understand. That's why ARG scientist Priscilla Martinez, PhD, and colleagues are working to better understand how the Covid-19 pandemic affected us, in particular our alcohol and substance use, co-use and mental health. Research team members include Cat Munroe, Thomas K. Greenfield, William C. Kerr, Deidre Patterson, Yu Ye, and Libo Li. The new NIAAA-funded longitudinal study will look at how alcohol and substance … [Read more...]
Cannabis Causes Fewer Harms to Others than Alcohol
Cannabis Can Hurt More than Just the User but Poses Less Risk to Others than Alcohol Press Release Findings from the first-ever study of marijuana’s secondhand harms show that fewer harms were attributed to someone else’s cannabis use than from secondhand drinking. The new research from the Alcohol Research Group, a program of the Public Health Institute, and RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, was conducted using 2014 to 2016 data from Washington State where recreational … [Read more...]
New Grant Assesses Effect of Marijuana Legalization
Senior scientist William C. Kerr and colleagues' new grant investigates the effects of recreational legalization of marijuana and local policy implementation in Washington State. This project will provide a wealth of new information relevant to the impacts of legalization and local marijuana regulation, as well as inter-relationships between marijuana and other substance use problems over time. The grant is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Previously, ARG was … [Read more...]
New Grant Looks at Suicide Risk & AUD Among American Indian People in Southern California
Led by Cindy Ehlers at Scripps Research Institute, sub-award recipient and ARG Senior Scientist Katherine Karriker-Jaffe will provide expertise in neighborhood effects and disparities research for the new project. ARG Biostatistician Libo Li and Research Associate Deidre Patterson along with Assistant Professor and suicide expert Rebecca Bernert at Stanford round out the team. The grant supports the development of a multilevel bio-psychosocial-ecological model of risk and protective factors for … [Read more...]
Alcohol’s Secondhand Harms’ Project Wraps Up with Significant Results
Led by Co-PIs Katherine Karriker-Jaffe and Thomas K. Greenfield, the project on Alcohol’s Harms to Others Among US Adults: Individual and Contextual Effects wrapped up recently after resulting in multiple published works, with several new publications on the horizon. The project, which looked at how someone’s drinking affects their spouse or partner or other family member including children, used data from four cycles of ARG’s National Alcohol Survey (NAS), including the latest completed in … [Read more...]
