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          • ABOUT THE CENTER

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          • MEET THE DIRECTOR


            Senior Scientist, William (Bill) C. Kerr, PhD, is Director of ARG’s National Alcohol Research Center and Co-Directs the National Alcohol Survey and the Health Disparities projects.  Bill also serves as the scientific director at ARG and continues to lead R01 projects, including a grant to investigate secondhand harms from alcohol and other drugs.

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          • MEET THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

            Scientist Nina Mulia, DrPH, is Center Associate Director and Director of the Alcohol Services project. She specializes in and has published widely on race and ethnicity and socioeconomic disparities in heavy drinking, alcohol problems, and alcohol services utilization.

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          • ASSESSING HID OVER THE LIFECOURSE

            This project, led by Camillia Lui, PhD, traces trends in harmful drinking patterns over a 40-year period, and identifies a range of alcohol-related precursors and problems through event-based and population-based approaches to inform early screening and interventions for high-risk groups.

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    • National Alcohol Surveys
          • ABOUT THE SURVEY

            • About the National Alcohol Survey
            • NAS Datasets
            • Get Access to the NAS data
          • MEET THE SURVEY CO-DIRECTOR

            Scientist and Deputy Scientific Director, Priscilla Martinez, oversees the survey design, data collection, and analyses.  In the latest cycle of the NAS, Priscilla conducted dried blood spot sampling to help better understand the relationship between how our immune systems work and what role they might play in how alcohol use can affect our mental health.

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  • Thomasina Borkman, PhD

  • Professor of Sociology, Emerita, George Mason University, Virginia
  • tborkman@arg.org 240-669-6646
  • EDUCATION

    Ph.D. Sociology, Columbia University, New York City
    M.A. Sociology, Columbia University, New York City
  • RESEARCH FOCUS

    Peer and lay citizen-based solutions to health, behavioral health and social issues including self-help/mutual aid groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Recovery, Inc., peer support, consumer-run mental health wellness centers, voluntary action, helping behaviors, spirituality, nonprofit organizational behavior.

FEATURED PROJECTS

What is Recovery?

PUBLICATIONS

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Elements that define recovery: the experiential perspective


Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2014

The Twelve-Step Recovery Model of AA: A voluntary mutual help association


Research on Alcoholics Anonymous and Spirituality in Addiction Recovery, 2008

Self-Help Groups challenge the health care systems in the US and UK


in Patients, Consumers and Civil Society: Advances in Medical Sociology, eds S. Chambre & M. Goldner, 10. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd., 2008

Contrasting and converging philosophies of three models of alcohol/other drugs treatment: Minnesota Model, Social Model, and addiction Therapeutic Communities


Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2007

Sharing experience, conveying hope: Egalitarian relations as the essential method of alcoholics anonymous


Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 2006

Understanding results from randomized trials: use of program- and client-level data to study medical and nonmedical treatment programs


Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 2005

Self-Help and mental health: Case studies of mental health self-help organizations in US, UK, and Sweden. Stockholm, Sweden: Skondal Institute and University


2005

Understanding self-help/mutual aid: Experiential learning in the commons. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press


1999

Is recovery planning any different from treatment planning?


Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 1998

“Emergent order and self-organization: A case study of alcoholics anonymous”


Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 1997

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About ARG

We are a non-profit research organization that seeks to improve public health through deepening our understanding of alcohol and other drug use and investigating innovative approaches to reduce its consequences for individuals, families, and communities.

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