Expertise

• addiction
• smoking and tobacco use
• drug use among adolescents and adults
• predictors of drug abuse
• substance addictions like alcoholism and food-related disorders
• process addictions like addiction to exercise or compulsive spending
• the prevalence of addictions in the United States
• smoking cessation programs
• health behavior
• physical attractiveness and interpersonal attraction

Additional Information

• Co-author, Drug Abuse: Concepts, Prevention, and Cessation (2008)
• Primary developer: Project EX, a successful adolescent tobacco-use cessation program; Project Towards No Drug Abuse, a drug abuse prevention project for older teens, particularly those at risk
• Editor, Evaluation & the Health Professions
• Fellow, Division 50 (Addictions), American Psychological Association
• Contributing editor, 2012 Surgeon General’s Report on Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults
• Member, American Psychological Association (1980-present)