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Session: Drugs, Public Health, and the Environment: New Directions at NIDA.
5090.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Drugs, Public Health, and the Environment: New Directions at NIDA.
This session will provide the audience with a description of NIDA Division of Epidemiology Services and Prevention Research program areas of interest as the relate to the them of the APHA annual meeting, Public Health and the Environment. Three funded NIDA grantees will discuss their work, providing the audience with further illustration of critical topics relating to drugs, public health, and the environment.
Learning Objectives: See individual abstracts
Organizer(s):Aria Davis Crump, ScD
Discussant(s):David Vlahov, PhD
Moderator(s):Aria Davis Crump, ScD
12:30 PMFive year outcomes in private alcohol and drug treatment patients: Roles of readmission and continuing primary care  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jennifer Mertens, MA, Thomas Ray, Stacy Sterling, MPH, MSW, Constance Weisner, DrPH, MSW
Part 1 
12:50 PMDrugs, public health, and the environment: New directions at NIDA  [ Recorded presentation ]
Aria Davis Crump, ScD
1:08 PMDrug use vulnerability: Familial relationships as an environmental factor  [ Recorded presentation ]
Claire Sterk, PhD, Kirk Elifson, PhD, Dawn L. Comeau, MA, Kristin J. Wilson
1:26 PMLinking schools with community resources to prevent drug use  [ Recorded presentation ]
Edward A. Smith, DrPh, Linda Caldwell, PhD, Lisa Wegner, MS, Tania Vergnani, PhD, Alan J. Flisher, PhD, Cathy Matthews, PhD, Elias Mpofu, PhD, Cori Luppino, MS
1:44 PMRole of primary care in five-year outcomes of substance abuse treatment
Constance Weisner, DrPH, MSW, Jennifer Mertens, MA, Stacy Sterling, MPH, MSW, Sujaya Parthasarathy, PhD
2:02 PMDiscussant: David Vlahov, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Endorsed by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA