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 Major research interest is the etiology of substance abuse
over the life span, and preventive programming that will change
course. An ongoing community based prospective high risk family
study of initially preschool age children and their substance abusing
parents, currently 27 years in process, provides the core database
for this work. Seven spin off projects using the longitudinal
sample focus on the relationship of macrolevel community and
neighborhood influences to individual behavior, and the interplay
between genetic vulnerability, brain function, behavior,
socialization structure, and life phase task variation in
producing troubled outcomes. Current teaching involves a field
based research methods course for undergraduates, research
mentoring of postdoctoral fellows, and post-residency physicians,
and lecturing to medical school residents and medical students.
A NIDA/Fogarty International Center funded program supports
development of the substance abuse research infrastructure in
Central and Eastern Europe. Current work is primarily in
collaboration with Ukrainian and Polish scientists. Prior
work also involved collaborations with Slovakia and Latvia.
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