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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology (in Psychiatry), Mailman School of Public Health
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Selected New York City Activities |
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Alcohol Dependence, General Population Validity
Over 6,000 community residents in the New York metropolitan area were originally screened for at-risk drinking in a NIAAA-funded study. 962 of these screened positive and participated in baseline interviews, 809 (87.3% of those still living) were re-interviewed after 10 years. Supplemental funding was provided to study the effects of September 11, 2001 on stress-related drinking. Data analysis is currently underway. This study also involves analysis of national survey data on alcohol and related comorbidity. Study findings have been published in important alcohol journals such as Journal for Studies on Alcohol, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, and Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
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Course of Drug Use Disorders: Effects of Comorbidity
Dr. Hasin is working on a longitudinal study, funded by NIDA was conducted of over 600 patients with alcohol and substance use disorders treated in New York area drug, alcohol, and psychiatric facilities. Study findings on the relationship of substance use and major depression, and the reliability of diagnostic assessment of these conditions for research and clinical purposes have appeared in such major publications as Archives of General Psychiatry and The American Journal of Psychiatry.
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Reducing Unsafe Drinking in HIV Primary Care
Excess drinking, even if not at alcoholic levels, can ameliorate the effects of anti-retroviral medication and interfere with medication compliance. Therefore, designing effective screening and intervention procedures that can be disseminated to non-research clinical settings has to potential to positively impact the health of HIV primary care patients who are drinking more than they should. A pilot study is currently underway to test proposed procedures.
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