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| Thomas E BaborSummaryAffiliation: University of Connecticut Health Center Country: USA Publications
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Evidence-based alcohol policy in the Americas: strengths, weaknesses, and future challengesThomas F Babor
University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut 06030 6325, USA
Rev Panam Salud Publica 18:327-37. 2005..Given the low to moderate cost of many of the policies reviewed in this article, it now seems possible for communities and nations to substantially reduce the alcohol-related burden of illness in the Americas...
Public health, academic medicine, and the alcohol industry's corporate social responsibility activitiesThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030 6325, USA
Am J Public Health 103:206-14. 2013....- Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT): toward a public health approach to the management of substance abuseThomas F Babor
University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
Subst Abus 28:7-30. 2007..That SBIRT yields short-term improvements in individuals' health is irrefutable; long-term effects on population health have not yet been demonstrated, but simulation models suggest that the benefits could be substantial... - Alcohol screening and brief intervention in primary care settings: implementation models and predictorsThomas E Babor
The Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut 06030 6325, USA
J Stud Alcohol 66:361-8. 2005..It also identified organizational factors contributing to the success or failure of SBI implementation... - Assessing multiple risk behaviors in primary care. Screening issues and related conceptsThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:42-53. 2004.... - Publish or perish: the art of managing a successful scientific journalThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, 06030, USA
Addiction 101:640-1; discussion 644-5. 2006 - Subtypes of substance dependence and abuse: implications for diagnostic classification and empirical researchThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
Addiction 101:104-10. 2006..To evaluate the relevance of a form of diagnostic classification called clinical subtyping in relation to possible revisions in the diagnostic criteria for substance abuse and dependence in psychiatric classification systems... - Minimizing moral jeopardy--perils of the slippery slopeThomas F Babor
University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
Addiction 102:1037-8; discussion 1039-40. 2007 - We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us: psychiatric epidemiology and the alcohol dependence syndrome conceptThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut, School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
Addiction 102:1534-5; discussion 1537-8. 2007 - Terminology: impossible dream or tilting at windmills?Thomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030 6325, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:5. 2008 - Subtypes for classifying adolescents with marijuana use disorders: construct validity and clinical implicationsThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care and Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030 6325, USA
Addiction 97:58-69. 2002..To evaluate the construct and predictive validity of six different subtyping classifications selected on the basis of their empirical support in the literature on adolescent substance abuse... - The world of drinking: national alcohol control experiences in 18 countriesThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, USA
Addiction 103:721-5. 2008 - Reliability of a rating procedure to monitor industry self-regulation codes governing alcohol advertising contentThomas F Babor
The University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:235-42. 2008.... 
Treatment for persons with substance use disorders: mediators, moderators, and the need for a new research approachThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030 6325, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 17:S45-9. 2008..It may be more fruitful to look for matching in larger populations at the level of communities or treatment systems, where a wider range of settings and therapeutic interventions can be evaluated...- Alcohol and drug treatment systems in public health perspective: mediators and moderators of population effectsThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030 6325, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 17:S50-9. 2008..It is suggested that systems concepts and research may help to improve access, efficiency, economy, continuity of care, and effectiveness, thereby improving the population impact of treatment services... - Alcohol research and the alcoholic beverage industry: issues, concerns and conflicts of interestThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030 6325, USA
Addiction 104:34-47. 2009..The aim of this paper is to evaluate the ethical, professional and scientific challenges that have emerged from industry involvement in alcohol science... - Screening and interventions for alcohol and drug problems in medical settings: what works?Thomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030 6325, USA
J Trauma 59:S80-7; discussion S94-100. 2005..Finally, we explore the implications of the findings for developing a public health approach to early intervention, particularly as it relates to the unique needs of trauma centers... - Brief interventions for at-risk drinking: patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness in managed care organizationsThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030 6325, USA
Alcohol Alcohol 41:624-31. 2006..Evaluate effectiveness and costs of brief interventions for patients screening positive for at-risk drinking in managed health care organizations (MCOs)... - Training medical providers to conduct alcohol screening and brief interventionsThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, 06030 6325, USA
Subst Abus 25:17-26. 2004..Thus, when delivered in the context of a comprehensive SBI implementation program, this training is effective in changing providers' knowledge, attitudes, and practice of SBI for at-risk drinking... - Linking science to policy. The role of international collaborative researchThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
Alcohol Res Health 26:66-74. 2002.... - Effects of cautionary messages and vulnerability factors on viewers' perceptions of alcohol advertisementsDwayne C Proctor
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington 06030-6325, USA
J Stud Alcohol 66:648-57. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Perceptions of the drinking in beer commercials are based in part on the character depicted in the ad and in part on the demographic and personal vulnerability factors of the viewer... - The Marijuana Treatment Project: rationale, design and participant characteristicsRobert S Stephens
Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Addiction 97:109-24. 2002..The Marijuana Treatment Project (MTP) was a multi-site study of two treatments for adults with marijuana dependence... - Closing remarks: addiction societies as valuable assetsGriffith Edwards
National Addiction Centre, London, UK
Addiction 103:9-12. 2008 - Validation of the Alcohol, Smoking And Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)Rachel Humeniuk
Drug and Alcohol, Services Council, Adelaide, Australia
Addiction 103:1039-47. 2008..The concurrent, construct and discriminative validity of the World Health Organization's Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) were examined in a multi-site international study... - Changing the focus: the case for recognizing and treating cannabis use disordersMichael Dennis
Chestnut Health Systems CHS, West Chestnut, Bloomington, IL 61701, USA
Addiction 97:4-15. 2002..Moreover, the costs to society are continuing to mount from past neglect of this continuing public health problem. This paper provides background on the need to develop effective models for treating cannabis use disorders... - Beyond alcoholism: identifying older, at-risk drinkers in primary careAlison A Moore
Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 90095 1687, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:316-24. 2002.... - Another mirror shattered? Tobacco industry involvement suspected in a book which claims that nicotine is not addictiveGriffith Edwards
Addiction 97:1-5. 2002 - Industrial epidemics, public health advocacy and the alcohol industry: lessons from other fieldsRené I Jahiel
Addiction 102:1335-9. 2007 - Alcohol drinking patterns and health care utilization in a managed care organizationGary A Zarkin
RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Health Serv Res 39:553-70. 2004..On the contrary, we find that alcohol use is generally associated with decreased health care utilization regardless of drinking pattern... - Diagnosis of alcohol dependence in epidemiological surveys: an epidemic of youthful alcohol dependence or a case of measurement error?Raul Caetano
Dallas Regional Campus, University of Texas School of Public Health, TX, USA
Addiction 101:111-4. 2006..To review the literature on the prevalence of alcohol dependence according to age, presenting data suggesting that the increased prevalence of alcohol dependence among young adults may be inflated because of measurement error... - World Health Organization's global action on alcohol: resources required to match the rhetoricRobin Room
Addiction 100:579-80. 2005 - Diageo, University College Dublin and the integrity of alcohol science: It's time to draw the line between public health and public relationsThomas F Babor
Addiction 101:1375-7. 2006 - Scribbling in the margins: comments on Humphreys & TuckerThomas F Babor
Department of Community Medicine University of Connecticut Farmington CT 06030-632 USA
Addiction 97:137-40. 2002 - Alcohol policy research: a quoi bon?Thomas F Babor
Addiction 99:1091-2; 1092-3. 2004 - An invitation to an alcohol industry lobby to help decide public funding of alcohol research and professional training: a decision that should be reversedGriffith Edwards
Addiction 99:1235-6. 2004 - The trouble with alcohol abuse: what are we trying to measure, diagnose, count and prevent?Thomas F Babor
Addiction 103:1057-9. 2008 - A passion for publishing: Griffith Edwards and the creation of an institutionThomas F Babor
Addiction 100:3-5. 2005 - The effect of screening and brief intervention for risky drinking on health care utilization in managed care organizationsJeremy W Bray
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Med Care 45:177-82. 2007..We sought to estimate the effect of screening and brief intervention (SBI) for risky alcohol use on the health care utilization of risky drinkers in 4 managed care organizations... - Moving from research to practice just in time: the treatment of cannabis use disorders comes of ageH Westley Clark
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD, USA
Addiction 97:1-3. 2002..This Introduction provides background information and an overview of the papers from the perspective of the funding agency... - Tackling alcohol misuse in the UKThomas F Babor
BMJ 336:455. 2008 - Ethics matter: to authors, editors and those we serveThomas F Babor
Addiction 98:1-2. 2003 - Connecticut statewide addiction medicine/psychiatry grand roundsMark L Kraus
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conneticut, USA
Conn Med 67:357-9. 2003 - The costs of screening and brief intervention for risky alcohol useGary A Zarkin
RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:849-57. 2003.... - Standardizing terminology in addiction science: to achieve the impossible dreamThomas F Babor
Addiction 102:1015-8. 2007 - The integrity of the science base: a test caseGriffith Edwards
Addiction 100:581-4. 2005
Research Grants
- Evaluating industry codes governing malt liquor adsThomas Babor; Fiscal Year: 2003....
- Brief Interventions for nicotine and cannabis useThomas Babor; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Delphi Evaluation of Alcohol Advertising CodesThomas Babor; Fiscal Year: 2007..The long-term goals of this research are to develop both methodological tools and empirical findings that will protect vulnerable populations and enhance the ability of regulatory agencies to monitor alcoholic beverage advertising. ..
- Evaluating Alcohol Brief Intervention ImplementationThomas Babor; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- Brief Intervention for Drug Abuse Using the WHO ASSISTThomas Babor; Fiscal Year: 2006....
- Brief Intervention for Drug Abuse Using the WHO ASSISTThomas Babor; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- Delphi Evaluation of Alcohol Advertising CodesThomas Babor; Fiscal Year: 2009..abstract_text> ..