This event will be taking place in Minneapolis, MN August 5th from 4-6 pm. If you have any questions please reach out to Diadora at dfinley-abboud@mgh.harvard.edu 

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Mental Health

• Corey Monely - Drinking to cope with COVID-19 anxiety predicts greater alcohol problems for undergraduate students

• Alexis Blessing - The Influence Of Cannabis Use Disorder and Co-Morbid Mental Health Problems On NSSI in College Student

• Ashley Peck - Easy as CBD: A Cannabidiol Primer for Mental Health Professionals

• Priyanka Sunder - Sedative Users with a Prescription Report More Anxiety than Sedative Users Without a Prescription

Postive Psychology

• Catherine Trinh - A Preliminary Test of Positive Psychological Interventions to Change Cannabis Motives

• Shahar Almog - Spending time in nature serves as a protective factor against harmful alcohol us

mHealth

• Molly Anderson - Coping with Cannabis Craving: Development of a Digital Intervention

• Irene Pericot-Valverde - A remote intervention for treatment and smoking cessation among people living with HCV-A pilot study

Recovery

• Taylor Sheldon - Themes of Agency and Communion in Narratives of Recovery from Substance Use Disorder

• Candice Hayden- Percieved Social Support and Substance Use Recovery During COVID-19

• Jessica Zurawel - Once an Addict, Always an Addict? The Trajectory of Public Stigma Across the Stages of Recovery from a Substance Use Disorder

• Jordan Jurinsky - Social networks are dynamic for youth in recovery: Qualitative findings

Equity

• Erik Ortiz - Enhancing Social Determinants of Health Among People with Opioid Use Disorder

• Alexander Calder - Exploring social factors contributing to natural recovery from substance addiction

Harm Reduction

• Tanee Deans - Safe Injection Sites (SIS) as an economically progressive measure to address the opioid epidemic: A systematic literature review

Minority Populations

• Cara Struble - Cannabis Vaping among LGBT+ and Cisgender Heterosexual Young Adults in Southern California

• Alana Egan - The Influence of Primary Socialization on American Indian Adolescent Intentions to Use Substances

• Tessa Nalven - Factors Associated with Multiracial Adults' Illicit Substance Use

• Jacqueline Paiz - Substance Use and Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Latinx Adolescents

Substance Comparison

• Shabria S. Smith - Resistance to Peer Pressure Across Alcohol, Steroid, and Sedative User Groups

• Quinton Castleberry - Non-Medical Use of Prescription Sedatives: A Possible Gateway to Drug and Alcohol Abuse

• Grant Jones - Associations between classic psychedelics and opioid use disorder in a nationally-representative U.S sample

Patterns of Use

• Grace Putz - Furthering the link between a desire to dissociate and negative reinforcement patterns of drinking

• Andrea Vásquez Ferreiro - Characterizing Childhood trauma, Substance Use, and Behavioral Economic Demand for Opioids in an Online Sample

Genetics

• Emran Altaf - Fifty-Year Predictive Validity of the Tri-Level Method of Defining Familial Alcoholism

• Lindzey Hoover - Co-Occurring Food Addiction, High-Risk Substance Use, and Parental History of High-Risk Alcohol Use

Social Influences

• Julie Cristello - Examining adolescent exposure to alcohol and marijuana content across popular social media platforms

• Emily Warner - Changes in Perceptions of Individual and Peer Drinking in the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Madison Murray - Unintentionally Blunting the Ability to Connect: Sex Differences on Empathy in Substance Use Samples

Sexual Health

• Kirsten Smith - Involuntarily celibate adults: Wellbeing, perceived desirability to mates, and drug-use

• Rena Pazienza - Sexual Assault and Bystander Intervention Among Men and Women College Student Drinking Gamers​​​​​​​