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Self-reported high-risk locations of adolescent drug useS Sussman
University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033, USA
Addict Behav 23:405-11. 1998..Not surprisingly, drugs were used least at school. Interestingly, the prototypical party drug use situation is not a popular situation for drug use, at least among these high-risk youth...- Smoking cessation among persons in recoverySteve Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research and Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, USA
Subst Use Misuse 37:1275-98. 2002..Outcomes of 24 studies are presented. It is concluded that the future of research and practice in this arena should include facilitating smoking cessation among those early in recovery... - Project towards no drug abuse: a review of the findings and future directionsSteve Sussman
Am J Health Behav 26:354-65. 2002..To provide a review of the evidence from 3 experimental trials of Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND), a senior-high-school-based drug abuse prevention program... - Alcoholic liver disease (ALD): a new domain for prevention effortsSteve Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Alhambra, California 91803, USA
Subst Use Misuse 37:1887-904. 2002..It is hoped that new interest among health behavior researchers and practitioners will be stimulated... - The associations of social self-control, personality disorders, and demographics with drug use among high-risk youthSteve Sussman
Preventive Medicine and Psychology, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California IPR, 1000 South Fremont, Unit No 8 Room 4124 in Building A 4, Alhambra, CA 91803, USA
Addict Behav 28:1159-66. 2003..These results highlight the importance of social self-control as a unique concurrent predictor of substance use and suggest that social self-control skill training is relevant in substance abuse prevention programming... - Project Towards No Drug Abuse: two-year outcomes of a trial that compares health educator delivery to self-instructionSteve Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Alhambra, CA 91803, USA
Prev Med 37:155-62. 2003..Self-instruction programming often is used to help youth that are at high risk for dropout and drug abuse to complete their high school education. However, a health educator-led program is much more interactive... - Five-year prospective prediction of marijuana use cessation of youth at continuation high schoolsSteve Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Room 4124, Unit 8, Building A 4, 1000 South Fremont Avenue, Alhambra 91803, USA
Addict Behav 29:1237-43. 2004..Implications of these results include the need to reduce psychological dependence on marijuana and increase social unacceptability of marijuana use across genders to help increase prevalence of quit attempts... - A look at an interactive classroom-based drug abuse prevention program: interactive contents and suggestions for researchSteve Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Alhambra 91803, USA
J Drug Educ 33:355-68. 2003..Suggestions for future research on interactivity were made... - A transdisciplinary focus on drug abuse prevention: an introductionSteve Sussman
Department of Preventive Medicine and Psychology, Institute for Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Alhambra, California 91803, USA
Subst Use Misuse 39:1441-56. 2004..Advances in understanding etiological issues, translation to programs, and ecological fit of programming are desired results... - The motivation, skills, and decision-making model of "drug abuse" preventionSteve Sussman
Departments of Preventive Medicine and Psychology, Institute for Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Alhambra, California 91803, USA
Subst Use Misuse 39:1971-2016. 2004..Incorporating the perspectives of multiple disciplines appears essential for progress in drug abuse and other problem behavior prevention... - A "drug abuse" theoretical integration: a transdisciplinary speculationSteve Sussman
Departments of Preventive Medicine and Psychology, Institute for Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Alhambra, California 91803, USA
Subst Use Misuse 39:2055-69. 2004..quot; Prevention must address remediation of this dis-balance for the latter type of drug misuser... - A pilot study of an alcoholic liver disease recurrence prevention education program in hospitalized patients with advanced liver diseaseSteve Sussman
Preventive Medicine and IPR, University of Southern California, 1000 South Fremont Avenue, Unit 8, Building A 4, Alhambra, CA 91803, USA
Addict Behav 30:465-73. 2005..For those ALD inpatients that are able and willing to participate, the program shows promising effects on self-reported lifestyle change... - Risk factors for and prevention of tobacco useSteve Sussman
Preventive Medicine and Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 91803, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 44:614-9. 2005..The majority of well-evaluated tobacco use prevention programs that employ a comprehensive social influences model show effects over an average of 6 years post-programming... - Translation in the health professions: converting science into actionSteve Sussman
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Eval Health Prof 29:7-32. 2006..Finally, the article concludes that translational research is an important area to continue to pursue requiring long-term collaborative commitment among researchers and practitioners... - Five-year prospective prediction of self-initiated quitting of cigarette smoking of high-risk youthSteve Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Alhambra, California 91803, USA
Addict Behav 32:1094-8. 2007.... - Tobacco industry youth tobacco prevention programming: a reviewSteve Sussman
Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Alhambra 91803, USA
Prev Sci 3:57-67. 2002..Providing financial support of nonindustry programming greatly improves this effort; however, the concept of tobacco industry involvement in youth tobacco prevention needs continued examination... - The one-year prospective prediction of substance abuse and dependence among high-risk adolescentsS Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
J Subst Abuse 12:373-86. 2000..Apparently, adolescents can predict their future use, and abuse or dependence status. Also, instruction in prosocial coping (e.g., seeking social support) may help inhibit the transition from substance abuse to substance dependence... - One-year outcomes of Project Towards No Drug AbuseS Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033, USA
Prev Med 27:632-42. 1998.... - Self-initiated quitting among adolescent smokersS Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 90033, USA
Prev Med 27:A19-28. 1998..Youth transfer to alternative schools because of academic or behavioral problems, and they are at relatively high risk for cigarette smoking... - One-year prospective prediction of marijuana use cessation among youth at continuation high schoolsS Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033, USA
Addict Behav 24:411-7. 1999..Implications of these results include the need to increase unacceptability of marijuana use to help increase efforts at self-initiated quitting... - Effects of thirty-four adolescent tobacco use cessation and prevention trials on regular users of tobacco productsS Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, USA
Subst Use Misuse 34:1469-503. 1999..More research is needed to define the most successful approaches for cessation of adolescent tobacco use... - The association of current stimulant use with demographic, substance use, violence-related, social and intrapersonal variables among high risk youthS Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033, USA
Addict Behav 24:741-8. 1999..One may speculate that programming for these stimulant-using youth should include treatment of multiple substances, depression, and correction of social-cognitive misperceptions... - One-year prospective prediction of drug use from stress-related variablesS Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research and Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, USA
Subst Use Misuse 35:717-35. 2000..Drug-use intervention implications of these results include the need to provide supportive services to those who have been victims of violent attacks on their person or property... - Group self-identification as a prospective predictor of drug use and violence in high-risk youthS Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 14:192-6. 2000..This is the 1st study to demonstrate that group self-identification is a significant prospective predictor of drug use and other problem behaviors... - School-based tobacco use prevention and cessation: where are we going?S Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, and Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, USA
Am J Health Behav 25:191-9. 2001..To discuss the past, present, and future directions of school-based tobacco use prevention and cessation research... - Self-reported high-risk locations of drug use among drug offendersS Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 27:281-99. 2001..Not surprisingly, drugs were used least at work (though a surprising 47% had used at work). Popular situations of drug use among drug offenders are similar to that of high-risk youth... - Project EX: outcomes of a teen smoking cessation programS Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research and Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, USA
Addict Behav 26:425-38. 2001..The Project EX clinic component appears to be an effective means of tobacco use cessation among teens... - Effects of sixty six adolescent tobacco use cessation trials and seventeen prospective studies of self-initiated quittingS Sussman
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, USA
Tob Induc Dis 1:35-81. 2002..Since there is little information currently available on use of nicotine replacement in young people, continued research in this arena might also be a useful focus for future work... - Predicting regular cigarette use among continuation high school studentsS Skara
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Am J Health Behav 25:147-56. 2001..CONCLUSION: Intrapersonal variables may be relatively important in predicting the progression from experimental to regular smoking... - Concurrent prediction of drug use among high-risk youthW J McCuller
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089, USA
Addict Behav 26:137-42. 2001..Indicated drug abuse prevention strategies may need to be tailored to this subgroup when developing and implementing programming... - Project Towards No Drug Abuse: generalizability to a general high school sampleC W Dent
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research and Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Prev Med 32:514-20. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that this program (Project Towards No Drug Abuse) has applicability to a wide range of older teens... - Perceived invulnerability and cigarette smoking among adolescentsJ E Milam
Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 9176, USA
Addict Behav 25:71-80. 2000..These results suggest, contrary to some previous work, that perceived invulnerability may be predictive of quitting tobacco use and may reflect relative invulnerability; that is, lighter use of tobacco... - Implicit cognition and dissocative experiences as predictors of adolescent substance useSusan L Ames
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 31:129-62. 2005..This research provides further evidence suggesting that implicit, associative memory processes are influential in drug-use motivation...
Research Grants
- Drug Abuse Prevention for High Risk Emerging AdultsSTEVEN SUSSMAN; Fiscal Year: 2007..We propose to test the efficacy of a booster intervention targeting alternative high school youth, who are at higher risk for development of drug abuse than are youth in regular high schools. ..