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Mental Illness, Suicide, & Addiction Research Program

Tackles the epidemiology of issues such as addiction and suicide, developing novel theoretical perspectives

Program Area Leaders
Senior Research Program Leaders:
Anna Mueller
Brian Kelly
Continuity Lead:
Leslie Hulvershorn

Institute scientists have also tackled the epidemiology of issues such as addiction, and suicide and have developed novel theoretical perspectives; mounted multi-method field studies to address cluster suicides; harmonized big data sources to answer previously blocked questions; and worked both with and across countries on the toll of these health issues.

Selected Publications

Cannabis policy liberalization is only associated with increased blunt use if states lack strong tobacco control

E-cigarette use among early adolescent tobacco cigarette smokers: testing the disruption and entrenchment hypotheses in two longitudinal cohorts

Hemp-based psychoactive use and risk among young adults: Trend theory, policy, and regulation beyond legality

Household vaping bans and youth e-cigarette use

Sibling Disclosure and Adolescents' Coping From Before to During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study

The Framing of Minority Threat and Moralization to Criminalize Behavior: The Case of Cannabis in the Early 20th Century

Utility of the Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation-Systems Level (LOCI-SL) strategy for a statewide substance use treatment implementation effort

Adolescent Cannabis Use During a Period of Rapid Policy Change: Evidence From the PATH Study

Competitive effects of federal and state opioid restrictions: Evidence from the controlled substance laws

Sumedha Gupta
Kosali Simon
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Correlates of heroin use, pharmaceutical fentanyl misuse, and dual heroin-fentanyl use: evidence from the USA

Efficacy of WeChat-based online smoking cessation intervention ('WeChat WeQuit') in China: a randomised controlled trial

How are state telehealth policies associated with services offered by substance use disorder treatment facilities? Evidence from 2019 to 2022

Stigma Toward Substance Dependence: Causes, Consequences, and Potential Interventions

Tobacco Policy and ENDS Policy Influences on Adolescent Vaping Across the US States

Trends in Psychotropic Drug-Implicated Cardiovascular Mortality: Patterns in US Mortality, 1999-2020

The Social Roots of Suicide: Theorizing how the External Social World matters to Suicide and Suicide Prevention

Anna Mueller
Bernice Pescosolido
Seth Abrutyn
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