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 

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