Damaris Rohsenow

About

Dr. Damaris Jane Rohsenow is a Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University and serves as the associate director of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. She has a distinguished career spanning over four decades, focusing on studying basic processes and conducting treatment outcome studies for addictive disorders including smoking, alcohol abuse, and cocaine abuse, utilizing both behavioral and pharmacologic approaches. She is also the co-director of a postdoctoral T32 training grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse on Substance Abuse Intervention Outcome Research. Her research includes developing and testing treatments for substance use disorders, with particular attention to underserved populations such as Latinx and Black Americans, and investigating the effects of medications and behavioral interventions on smoking and alcohol use. Dr. Rohsenow has contributed extensively to the field through her publications, including co-authoring the second edition of 'Treating Alcohol Dependence.' She is currently involved in large-scale studies, including a multi-site initiative under the HEAL program to implement medication-assisted treatment for opioid dependence in criminal justice settings, aiming to reduce opioid-related deaths among high-risk populations. Additionally, she has mentored numerous faculty, residents, and postdoctoral fellows, and actively participates in training programs related to substance abuse intervention research.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Psychology
• Clinical psychology
• Environmental health
• Internal medicine
• Nursing
• Psychiatry

Selected publications

• Behavioral economic tobacco demand in relation to cigarette consumption and nicotine dependence: a meta‐analysis of cross‐sectional relationships

  Addiction · 2019-07-17 · 78 citations

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  Abstract Background and Aims A cigarette purchase task (CPT) aims to characterize individual variation in the reinforcing value of tobacco. This meta‐analysis estimated the associations between cigarette demand, tobacco consumption and nicotine dependence using this task. Design A meta‐analysis of cross‐sectional studies identified by PubMed and PsycINFO databases was conducted. Fixed‐ and random‐effects models were used. The study also examined the model used to derive elasticity of demand (exp…

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• Pilot trial investigating a brief behavioral economic intervention as an adjunctive treatment for alcohol use disorder

  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment · 2020 · 48 citations

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• Effects of six weeks of electronic cigarette use on smoking rate, CO, cigarette dependence, and motivation to quit smoking: A pilot study

  Addictive Behaviors · 2018-01-11 · 20 citations

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• Smokers with opioid use disorder may have worse drug use outcomes after varenicline than nicotine replacement

  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment · 2019-06-10 · 16 citations

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• A randomized clinical trial of motivational interviewing plus skills training vs. Relaxation plus education and 12-Steps for substance using incarcerated youth: Effects on alcohol, marijuana and crimes of aggression

  Drug and Alcohol Dependence · 2019-12-13 · 12 citations

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Recent grants

• Very Low-Nicotine Cigarettes in Smokers with SUD: Smoking, Substance Use Effects

  NIH · $2.9M · 2013–2021

• NIH Grant R01DA004859

  NIH · $2.6M · 1998

• NIH Grant R01DA024652

  NIH · $3.4M · 2014

Frequent coauthors

• Peter M. Monti

  534 shared

• Suzanne M. Colby

  Providence College

  352 shared

• Robert M. Swift

  Providence VA Medical Center

  338 shared

• Rosemarie A. Martin

  Brown University

  217 shared

• David B. Abrams

  New York University

  206 shared

• Barbara Flannery

  Indiana University School of Medicine

  200 shared

• Jennifer W. Tidey

  Brown University

  163 shared

• Ned L. Cooney

  Yale University

  130 shared

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