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Chronic disease and recent addiction treatment utilization among alcohol and drug dependent adultsSharon Reif
Institute for Behavioral Health, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, MS035, Waltham, MA 02454, USA
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 6:28. 2011..The objective of this paper is to evaluate the association between the presence of chronic medical disease and recent addiction treatment utilization among adults with substance dependence...
Episodic homelessness and health care utilization in a prospective cohort of HIV-infected persons with alcohol problemsTheresa W Kim
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 6:19. 2006..We examine whether episodes of homelessness are independently associated with suboptimal medical utilization even when accounting for concurrent addiction severity and depression...
Detecting alcohol problems in HIV-infected patients: use of the CAGE questionnaireJeffrey H Samet
Department of Medicine, Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 20:151-5. 2004..Routine screening for alcohol problems should be performed in all patients entering HIV medical care and the CAGE questions are useful in this setting...- Association for medical education and research in substance abuseJeffrey H Samet
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, MA 02118, USA
Addiction 101:10-5. 2006..In the future, AMERSA will continue to pursue this mission of advancing and supporting health professional faculty who educate students and trainees to address substance abuse in patients and clients... - Alcohol use and sex risk behaviors among HIV-infected female sex workers (FSWs) and HIV-infected male clients of FSWs in IndiaJeffrey H Samet
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Boston University School of Medicine Boston Medical Center, 801 Massachusetts Ave, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02118, USA
AIDS Behav 14:S74-83. 2010..Such efforts to reduce drinking will be an important dimension to secondary HIV prevention in India... - Linking alcohol- and drug-dependent adults to primary medical care: a randomized controlled trial of a multi-disciplinary health intervention in a detoxification unitJeffrey H Samet
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, The Department of Medicine, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Addiction 98:509-16. 2003..We assessed the effectiveness of a novel multi-disciplinary clinic for linking patients in a residential detoxification program to primary medical care... - A randomized controlled trial to enhance antiretroviral therapy adherence in patients with a history of alcohol problemsJeffrey H Samet
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Antivir Ther 10:83-93. 2005..To assess the effectiveness of an individualized multicomponent intervention to promote adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in a cohort of HIV-infected individuals with a history of alcohol problems... - Alcohol consumption and HIV disease progression: are they related?Jeffrey H Samet
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 91 East Concord Street, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:862-7. 2003..The relationship between alcohol consumption and HIV disease progression has received limited attention in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)... - Mitigating risky sexual behaviors among Russian narcology hospital patients: the PREVENT (Partnership to Reduce the Epidemic Via Engagement in Narcology Treatment) randomized controlled trialJeffrey H Samet
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Boston University School of Medicine Boston Medical Center, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Addiction 103:1474-83. 2008..To assess the effectiveness of a sexual risk reduction intervention in the Russian narcology hospital setting... - Alcohol consumption and antiretroviral adherence among HIV-infected persons with alcohol problemsJeffrey H Samet
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 28:572-7. 2004..We examined the relative importance of varying levels of alcohol consumption on adherence in HIV-infected patients with a history of alcohol problems... - Understanding delay to medical care for HIV infection: the long-term non-presenterJ H Samet
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health, MA, USA
AIDS 15:77-85. 2001..To examine delayed presentation for HIV testing and primary care in the second decade of the AIDS epidemic... - Alcohol consumption and HIV disease progressionJeffrey H Samet
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 46:194-9. 2007..To assess the relation between alcohol consumption and laboratory markers of HIV disease progression... - Trillion virion delay: time from testing positive for HIV to presentation for primary careJ H Samet
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health, Mass, USA
Arch Intern Med 158:734-40. 1998..Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals' initial presentation to medical care frequently occurs at a point of advanced immunosuppression... - Illicit drugs, alcohol, and addiction in human immunodeficiency virusJ H Samet
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Panminerva Med 49:67-77. 2007.... - Benefits of linking primary medical care and substance abuse services: patient, provider, and societal perspectivesJ H Samet
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 91 E Concord St, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:85-91. 2001..Given the potential benefits of creating tangible systems in which primary care, mental health, and substance abuse services are meaningfully linked, efforts to implement, examine, and measure the real impact should be a high priority... - HIV testing in substance abusersJ H Samet
Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 25:269-80. 1999..Of those with positive test results, 37% were not injection drug users. Promotion of HIV testing among alcohol and other drug abusers in both medical and substance abuse treatment settings should be a priority... - Hepatitis C infection is associated with depressive symptoms in HIV-infected adults with alcohol problemsHoward Libman
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 101:1804-10. 2006..These data suggest that HCV may have a direct effect on neuropsychiatric function... - Correlates of any condom use among Russian narcology patients reporting recent unprotected sexAnita Raj
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street Talbot Building, Boston, MA 02118, USA
AIDS Behav 13:310-7. 2009..4, 95% CI = 1.1-5.1) in the past 6 months had significantly higher odds of reporting any condom use in this same timeframe. HIV/STI and substance use were not associated with increased odds of condom use... 
Transactional sex risk and STI among HIV-infected female sex workers and HIV-infected male clients of FSWs in IndiaAnita Raj
Boston University School of Public Health, Community Health Sciences, MA, USA
AIDS Care 23:1374-81. 2011..e., greater number of partners) and STI (i.e., unprotected sex) only held true for males. Further research is needed to guide an understanding of sex risk and STI among HIV-infected FSWs in India...- Evolution of depressive symptoms in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients entering primary careJ B Savetsky
Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts 02118, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 189:76-83. 2001..It is essential to screen, identify, and treat depression among patients entering care for HIV disease. Encouragement in joining support groups is a reasonable component of a strategy for addressing this common condition... - The doctor-patient relationship and HIV-infected patients' satisfaction with primary care physiciansL M Sullivan
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, MA 02115, USA
J Gen Intern Med 15:462-9. 2000..To assess the extent to which perceptions of specific aspects of the doctor-patient relationship are related to overall satisfaction with primary care physicians among HIV-infected patients... - Binge drinking and unsafe sex: a study of narcology hospital patients from St. Petersburg, RussiaA Raj
Department of Social Behavioral Sciences, Boston University of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Subst Abus 30:213-22. 2009..01, ns). Findings document substantial HIV/STD risk and prevalence among Russian narcology patients, but no link between binge drinking and unprotected sex in this population, possibly due to very low rates of condom use generally... - Factors associated with discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients with alcohol problemsT W Kim
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University, School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
AIDS Care 19:1039-47. 2007..Recognition and treatment of depressive symptoms in this population may result in better maintenance of ART and its associated clinical benefits... - Physical and sexual violence and health care utilization in HIV-infected persons with alcohol problemsJ M Liebschutz
Clinical Addictions Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Northampton, MA, USA
AIDS Care 17:566-78. 2005..Due to the high incidence and associated increased health care services utilization, violence prevention interventions should be considered for HIV-infected patients with a history of alcohol problems... - Compliance with zidovudine therapy in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus, type 1: a cross-sectional study in a municipal hospital clinicJ H Samet
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts
Am J Med 92:495-502. 1992..Compliance with zidovudine may be enhanced by a patient's belief that it prolongs life and the use of a medication timer for proper dosing... - Primary care quality and addiction severity: a prospective cohort studyTheresa W Kim
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section General Internal Medicine, 91 E Concord Street, Suite 200, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Health Serv Res 42:755-72. 2007..The aim of this study was to prospectively examine if higher PCQ is associated with lower addiction severity among patients with substance use disorders... - Barriers to treatment of hepatitis C in HIV/HCV-coinfected adults with alcohol problemsDavid Nunes
Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1520-6. 2006..In this study, we assessed the prevalence of barriers to interferon treatment in a population of HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with current or past alcohol problems and the extent to which they received treatment to address the barriers... - Slowing the revolving door: stabilization programs reduce homeless persons' substance use after detoxificationStefan G Kertesz
Divisions of Preventive Medicine and General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1530 3rd Avenue South, MT608, Birmingham, AL 35294 4410, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 24:197-207. 2003..This treatment modality may slow the "revolving door" phenomenon of relapse after detoxification among homeless persons... - Improving participation in HIV clinical trials: impact of a brief interventionK A Freedberg
Division of General Internal Medicine and Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
HIV Clin Trials 2:205-12. 2001.... - Homeless chronicity and health-related quality of life trajectories among adults with addictionsStefan G Kertesz
Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
Med Care 43:574-85. 2005..New federal initiatives target funds toward chronically homeless as distinct from other homeless persons. Few data exist, however, to substantiate the implications of chronic homelessness for major health outcomes... - Effect of exposure to injection drugs or alcohol on antigen-specific immune responses in HIV and hepatitis C virus coinfectionCamilla S Graham
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
J Infect Dis 195:847-56. 2007..We wanted to determine whether IDU or alcohol affected immune responses in HCV-infected and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/HCV coinfected subjects... - Establishment of a multidisciplinary Health Evaluation and Linkage to Primary care (HELP) clinic in a detoxification unitLuann P Sweeney
Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
J Addict Dis 23:33-45. 2004..A multidisciplinary health clinic to evaluate patients during detoxification is feasible and can link patients with substance dependence to primary medical care... - Suicidal behavior, drug use and depressive symptoms after detoxification: a 2-year prospective studyJames D Wines
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center ADARC, McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02478, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 76:S21-9. 2004..Individuals with substance-related disorders are at increased risk for suicidal behavior. Identifying those at higher risk for suicide among this population is difficult and informed mainly on the basis of cross-sectional data... - Management of adults recovering from alcohol or other drug problems: relapse prevention in primary careP D Friedmann
Department of Medicine, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Ill 60637, USA
JAMA 279:1227-31. 1998.... - Linkage with primary medical care in a prospective cohort of adults with addictions in inpatient detoxification: room for improvementRichard Saitz
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Health Serv Res 39:587-606. 2004.... - Injury among detoxification patients: alcohol users' greater riskVaughan W Rees
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University Schools of Medicine, Massachusetts, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 26:212-7. 2002..Patients at detoxification, particularly those with alcohol problems, represent a high-risk population for injury that may benefit from interventions to reduce these preventable complications... - Discontinuation from HIV medical care: squandering treatment opportunitiesJeffrey H Samet
Boston Medical Center, Boston University, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 14:244-55. 2003..One-fifth of HIV-infected patients did not remain engaged in primary care after establishing this essential link to treatment... - Sexually transmitted infections among HIV-infected heavy drinkers in St Petersburg, RussiaC A Pace
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Boston University School of Medicine Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Int J STD AIDS 23:853-8. 2012..00, 95% CI 1.13, 3.55). Given that STIs were common in this HIV-infected cohort, and that few patient characteristics predicted STI, the current practice of screening HIV-infected Russians for syphilis alone merits re-evaluation... - Alcohol abuse and dependence in Latinos living in the United States: validation of the CAGE (4M) questionsR Saitz
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Mass 02118 2393 USA
Arch Intern Med 159:718-24. 1999..Brief alcoholism screening questionnaires have not been adequately studied in the rapidly growing Latino population living in the United States... - PTSD in urban primary care: high prevalence and low physician recognitionJane Liebschutz
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, 91 East Concord St, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:719-26. 2007..Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with medical and psychological morbidity. The prevalence of PTSD in urban primary care has not been well described... - Implications of cannabis use and heavy alcohol use on HIV drug risk behaviors in Russian heroin usersAlexander Y Walley
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, 91 E Concord St, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02118, USA
AIDS Behav 12:662-9. 2008..1 points). Because of the central role of risky drug behaviors in the Russian HIV epidemic, it is important to understand how the use of multiple substances, including cannabis and alcohol, impacts risky drug behaviors... - Impact of hepatitis C on HIV progression in adults with alcohol problemsDebbie M Cheng
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:829-36. 2007..We therefore studied the association between HCV infection and markers of HIV disease progression in adults with alcohol problems... - Depressive symptoms and subsequent alcohol use and problems: a prospective study of medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol useTibor P Palfai
Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, 648 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:673-80. 2007..We sought to determine whether depressive symptoms assessed during hospitalization predicted alcohol use and alcohol-related problems during the subsequent year among medically ill patients... - Associations between alcohol, heroin, and cocaine use and high risk sexual behaviors among detoxification patientsAnita Raj
Department of Social Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 33:169-78. 2007..3, 95% CI = 1.1-4.8) and selling sex (OR(adj) = 2.6, 95% CI = 1.3-5.3). Alcohol and heroin were not significantly associated with sexual activity, high risk sexual behaviors or STD in this sample... - Treating homeless opioid dependent patients with buprenorphine in an office-based settingDaniel P Alford
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:171-6. 2007..Although office-based opioid treatment with buprenorphine (OBOT-B) has been successfully implemented in primary care settings in the US, its use has not been reported in homeless patients... - Some medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use may benefit from brief interventionRichard Saitz
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Youth Alcohol Prevention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:426-35. 2009..Studies of alcohol brief intervention for medical inpatients have mixed results. We explored potential moderators of the effectiveness of brief intervention for unhealthy alcohol use among medical inpatients... - Recent drug use, homelessness and increased short-term mortality in HIV-infected persons with alcohol problemsAlexander Y Walley
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, USA
AIDS 22:415-20. 2008..To assess the impact of recent heavy alcohol use, heroin/cocaine use, and homelessness on short-term mortality in HIV-infected persons... - Alcohol consumption and lipodystrophy in HIV-infected adults with alcohol problemsDebbie M Cheng
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Alcohol 43:65-71. 2009..However, larger studies are needed to fully elucidate the role and impact of alcohol consumption on the development of this common long-term complication of HIV infection and its treatment... - Does readiness to change predict subsequent alcohol consumption in medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use?Nicolas Bertholet
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
Addict Behav 34:636-40. 2009..Although assessing readiness to change may have clinical utility, assessing the patient's planned actions may have more predictive value for future improvement in alcohol consumption... - Professional satisfaction experienced when caring for substance-abusing patients: faculty and resident physician perspectivesRichard Saitz
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, MA 02118 2393, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:373-6. 2002..12) were associated with greater satisfaction. Professional satisfaction caring for patients with substance problems is lower than that for other illnesses. Addressing physician satisfaction may improve care for patients with addictions... - Are opioid dependence and methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) documented in the medical record? A patient safety issueAlexander Y Walley
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:1007-11. 2009..Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) is typically provided separately from medical care. Hence, coordination of medical care and substance use treatment is important to preserve patient safety... - Behavioral assessments in Russian addiction treatment inpatients: a comparison of audio computer-assisted self-interviewing and interviewer-administered questionnairesErika M Edwards
Boston University School of Public Health, Data Coordinating Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
HIV Clin Trials 9:247-53. 2008..Assess agreement between reported sex and drug use behaviors from audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (ACASI) and interviewer-administered questionnaire (IAQ)... - Alcohol counseling reflects higher quality of primary careRichard Saitz
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1482-6. 2008..Some primary care physicians do not conduct alcohol screening because they assume their patients do not want to discuss alcohol use... - Office-based management of opioid dependence with buprenorphine: clinical practices and barriersAlexander Y Walley
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1393-8. 2008..Buprenorphine is a safe, effective and underutilized treatment for opioid dependence that requires special credentialing, known as a waiver, to prescribe in the United States... - The association between alcohol consumption and prevalent cardiovascular diseases among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected menMatthew S Freiberg
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 53:247-53. 2010..To determine whether alcohol consumption is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) among HIV-infected veterans... - A transitional opioid program to engage hospitalized drug usersChristopher W Shanahan
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:803-8. 2010.... - The impact of trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress disorder on healthcare utilization among primary care patientsAnand Kartha
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Med Care 46:388-93. 2008..Trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increase healthcare utilization in veterans, but their impact on utilization in other populations is uncertain... - Alcohol consumption patterns in HIV-infected adults with alcohol problemsNicolas Bertholet
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02118 2605, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 112:160-3. 2010..To understand patterns of alcohol consumption and baseline factors associated with favorable drinking patterns among HIV-infected patients... - Interpersonal violence exposure and alcohol treatment utilization among medical inpatients with alcohol dependenceEmily F Rothman
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 34:464-70. 2008.... - Relationship of depressive symptoms and mental health functioning to repeat detoxificationChristopher W Shanahan
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 29:117-23. 2005..These data suggest that identifying individuals with DS or worse MHF after detoxification may provide opportunities for clinical intervention to reduce recurrent residential detoxification... - Sex trade, sexual risk, and nondisclosure of HIV serostatus: findings from HIV-infected persons with a history of alcohol problemsAnita Raj
Department of Social Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
AIDS Behav 10:149-57. 2006..Programs that emphasize serostatus disclosure and/or consistent condom use in the context of sex trade and with multiple sexual partners will be particularly important... - Brief intervention for medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use: a randomized, controlled trialRichard Saitz
Boston Medical Center and Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Ann Intern Med 146:167-76. 2007..The efficacy of brief intervention in reducing alcohol consumption is well established for selected outpatients but not for medical inpatients... - Association of violence victimization with inconsistent condom use in HIV-infected personsCynthia H Chuang
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S Hershey Medical Center, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
AIDS Behav 10:201-7. 2006..A history of sexual violence may in part explain HIV-infected persons' greater risk for transmitting HIV through high-risk sexual behaviors... - The severity of unhealthy alcohol use in hospitalized medical patients. The spectrum is narrowRichard Saitz
Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:381-5. 2006..Whether many medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use have nondependent use, and thus might benefit from brief intervention, is unknown... - Primary medical care and reductions in addiction severity: a prospective cohort studyRichard Saitz
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Addiction 100:70-8. 2005..To assess whether receipt of primary medical care can lead to improved outcomes for adults with addictions... - Inconsistent condom use among HIV-infected patients with alcohol problemsVera Ehrenstein
Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Boston Medical Center, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 73:159-66. 2004..CONCLUSION: In HIV-infected drug-injecting individuals, excessive use of alcohol is associated with unsafe sexual practices... - Alcohol and medication interactions in primary care patients: common and unrecognizedRichard Saitz
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Med 114:407-10. 2003 - Impact of health literacy on depressive symptoms and mental health-related: quality of life among adults with addictionAlisa Lincoln
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:818-22. 2006..Health literacy has been linked to health status in a variety of chronic diseases. However, evidence for a relationship between health literacy and mental health outcomes is sparse... - Screening for sexually transmitted infections in substance abuse treatment programsJane M Liebschutz
Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 70:93-9. 2003..We evaluated the prevalence of the sexually transmitted infections (STIs) chlamydia and gonorrhea in clients at a methadone maintenance program and a residential detoxification program... - Health literacy, antiretroviral adherence, and HIV-RNA suppression: a longitudinal perspectiveMichael K Paasche-Orlow
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:835-40. 2006..Low health literacy has been associated with worse adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and higher HIV-RNA levels, but these relationships have not been evaluated in longitudinal analyses... - Addressing alcohol problems in primary care: a cluster randomized, controlled trial of a systems intervention. The screening and intervention in primary care (SIP) studyRichard Saitz
Boston University and Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 91 East Concord Street, Suite 200, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 2393, USA
Ann Intern Med 138:372-82. 2003..Screening and intervention for alcohol problems can reduce drinking and its consequences but are often not implemented... - Introducing evidence-based practices into substance abuse treatment using organization development methodsMaryann Amodeo
Boston University School of Social Work, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 32:555-60. 2006..Dissemination of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in addiction settings is a national priority. We tested Organization Development (OD) methods for dissemination... - Risk of mortality during four years after substance detoxification in urban adultsRichard Saitz
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 91 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Urban Health 84:272-82. 2007..e., for detoxification) may help identify those at highest risk for whom interventions could be targeted... - The relationship between sexual and physical abuse and substance abuse consequencesJane Liebschutz
Clinical Addiction Research and Education CARE Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 22:121-8. 2002..048). For women, the association of PhySexAbuse with substance use consequences was similar across all ages (p = 0.59). Future research should develop interventions to lessen the substance abuse consequences of physical and sexual abuse... - Acute pain management for patients receiving maintenance methadone or buprenorphine therapyDaniel P Alford
Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Ann Intern Med 144:127-34. 2006..Clinical recommendations for providing analgesia for patients with acute pain who are receiving OAT are presented. Although challenging, acute pain in patients receiving this type of therapy can effectively be managed... - Assessing missed opportunities for HIV testing in medical settingsRebecca V Liddicoat
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:349-56. 2004.... - Education of preventive medicine residents: alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuseToni Abrams Weintraub
Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Development of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Am J Prev Med 24:101-5. 2003.... - Promoting substance use education among generalist physicians: an evaluation of the Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) programDaniel P Alford
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118 2393, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:40-7. 2009..Education about substance use (SU) disorders remains inadequate in medical training... - The association between hepatitis C infection and prevalent cardiovascular disease among HIV-infected individualsMatthew S Freiberg
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
AIDS 21:193-7. 2007..To examine the association between hepatitis C and prevalent cardiovascular disease (CVD) among HIV-infected individuals... - Intoxication before intercourse and risky sexual behavior in male veterans with and without human immunodeficiency virus infectionRobert L Cook
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Med Care 44:S31-6. 2006.... - Recurrence of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms after initiation of antiretrovirals including efavirenz: a report of two casesA Moreno
The Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, The Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
HIV Med 4:302-4. 2003..Some antiretrovirals has been reported to cause a wide range of psychiatric symptoms. However, reappearance of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms has not been described in relation to these medications... - Alcohol use and HIV risk behaviors among HIV-infected hospitalized patients in St. Petersburg, RussiaEvgeny M Krupitsky
St. Petersburg Scientific-Research Center of Addictions and Psychopharmacology, St. Petersburg State Pavlov Medical University, St. Petersburg 197089, Russia
Drug Alcohol Depend 79:251-6. 2005.... - Substance abuse treatment and hospitalization among a cohort of HIV-infected individuals with alcohol problemsAnita Palepu
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul s Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 29:389-94. 2005..We examined the association of substance abuse treatment services on hospitalization among participants in the HIV-Alcohol Longitudinal Cohort (HIV-ALC) study of HIV-infected individuals with a history of alcohol problems... - Improving emergency medicine residents' approach to patients with alcohol problems: a controlled educational trialGAIL D'ONOFRIO
Section of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
Ann Emerg Med 40:50-62. 2002.... - Substance abuse treatment and receipt of liver specialty care among persons coinfected with HIV/HCV who have alcohol problemsAnita Palepu
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul s Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 1Y6
J Subst Abuse Treat 31:411-7. 2006.... - Substance use during sexual and physical assault in HIV-infected personsCynthia H Chuang
Division of General Internal Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine and Milton S Hershey Medical Center Hershey, PA 17033 0850, USA
Violence Vict 22:216-25. 2007..9, 95% CI 1.7 to 20.6) in adjusted analysis. Of the physically assaulted participants, 66% of victims and 85% of assailants used drugs/alcohol during physical assault; these results did not differ by gender... - Update in addiction medicine for the generalistAdam J Gordon
Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1190-4. 2007 - Substance abuse treatment and emergency department utilization among a cohort of HIV-infected persons with alcohol problemsAnita Palepu
St Paul s Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, 620B 1081 Burrand Street, V6Z1Y6 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Subst Abuse Treat 25:37-42. 2003..Substance abuse treatment may present an opportunity to impact health care utilization patterns of HIV-infected persons with a history of alcohol problems... - Emergency department and hospital utilization among alcohol and drug-dependent detoxification patients without primary medical careMary Jo Larson
New England Research Institutes, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 32:435-52. 2006..Subjects with cocaine as a primary problem had lower odds of ED utilization than a reference group with alcohol as a primary problem... - Burden of medical illness in drug- and alcohol-dependent persons without primary careIsrael De Alba
Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, University of California Irvine, 100 Theory, Suite 110, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Am J Addict 13:33-45. 2004..S. population controls. While the optimal measure of medical illness burden in this population is unclear, a variety of health measures document this medical illness burden in addicted persons... - Uptake and adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected people with alcohol and other substance use problems: the impact of substance abuse treatmentAnita Palepu
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul s Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Addiction 99:361-8. 2004..We examined the association of substance abuse treatment with uptake, adherence and virological response to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among HIV-infected people with a history of alcohol problems... - Awareness of hepatitis C diagnosis is associated with less alcohol use among persons co-infected with HIVJudith I Tsui
General Internal Medicine Section 111A1, San Francisco VA Medical Center, 4150 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:822-5. 2007..We adjusted for age, sex, race, homelessness, injection drug use, depressive symptoms, and having abnormal liver tests... - Substance abuse treatment and risk behaviors among HIV-infected persons with alcohol problemsAnita Palepu
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, St Paul s Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Subst Abuse Treat 28:3-9. 2005..Although the opportunity exists to address HIV risk behaviors in the setting of substance abuse treatment, effective institutionalization of this challenging behavior change effort has not yet been realized... - Need and non-need factors associated with addiction treatment utilization in a cohort of homeless and housed urban poorStefan G Kertesz
Divisions of Preventive and General Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, AL 35294 4410, USA
Med Care 44:225-33. 2006..Prospective assessment of factors influencing utilization could inform policy and clinical care... - Health utility ratings for a spectrum of alcohol-related health statesKevin L Kraemer
Center for Research on Health Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Med Care 43:541-50. 2005..Preference-based utility ratings for health conditions are important components of cost-utility analyses and population burden of disease estimates. However, utility ratings for alcohol problems have not been determined... - Overdose after detoxification: a prospective studyJames D Wines
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center ADARC, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 89:161-9. 2007..The aim of this study was to determine predictors of non-fatal overdose (OD) among a cohort of 470 adults after detoxification from heroin, cocaine or alcohol...
Research Grants
- Maximizing Opportunity - HIV Prevention in Hospitalized Russian DrinkersJeffrey H Samet; Fiscal Year: 2010..abstract_text> ..
- CLINICAL ADDICTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION (CARE) PROGRAMJeffrey Samet; Fiscal Year: 2007..It will also inspire some of these physicians to make important contributions to research. Both will ultimately improve patient care and reduce the medical, social, and financial burden of drug abuse. ..
- Impact of Alcohol Use on HIV Infection--In the United States and RussiaJeffrey Samet; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Maximizing Opportunity - HIV Prevention in Hospitalized Russian DrinkersJeffrey Samet; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Maximizing Opportunity - HIV Prevention in Hospitalized Russian DrinkersJeffrey Samet; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- ENHANCED LINKAGE OF DRUG ABUSERS TO PRIMARY MEDICAL CAREJeffrey H Samet; Fiscal Year: 2010..Improved outcomes using the AHEAD approach would support the adoption of a health services delivery strategy, CDM, to better care for patients with DD. ..
- ENHANCED LINKAGE OF DRUG ABUSERS TO PRIMARY MEDICAL CAREJeffrey Samet; Fiscal Year: 2007..Improved outcomes using the AHEAD approach would support the adoption of a health services delivery strategy, CDM, to better care for patients with DD. ..
- Enhancing Alcohol Science Focus: AMERSA National MeetingJeffrey Samet; Fiscal Year: 2007..Since the Annual National Conference draws a large number of participants from a variety of medical and other healthcare professions, the impact on clinical training and practice will be substantial. ..
- ENHANCED LINKAGE OF DRUG ABUSERS TO PRIMARY MEDICAL CAREJeffrey Samet; Fiscal Year: 2001....
- MEDICATION ADHERENCE IN ALCOHOL ABUSING HIV PATIENTSJeffrey Samet; Fiscal Year: 2001..The ADHERE study will enable us to develop a generalizable intervention to enhance antiretroviral medication adherence in patients with a history of alcohol abuse and test its efficacy in terms of important clinical outcomes. ..
- CLINICAL IMPACT ON HCV & ALCOHOL IN HIV INFECTED PERSONSJeffrey Samet; Fiscal Year: 2004..The results of this study will provide crucial information needed for the development and prioritization of interventions for coinfected persons with addictions. ..
- HIV Prevention Partnership in Russian Alcohol TreatmentJeffrey Samet; Fiscal Year: 2005..Many will be HIV infected. Thus, the successful implementation of this study will provide a critical foundation for future prevention efforts to address the explosion of HIV infection in Russia. ..
- ENHANCED LINKAGE OF DRUG ABUSERS TO PRIMARY MEDICAL CAREJeffrey H Samet; Fiscal Year: 2010..Improved outcomes using the AHEAD approach would support the adoption of a health services delivery strategy, CDM, to better care for patients with DD. ..