Institute for Prevention of Addictions Andrews University 8408 Westwood Berrien Springs, MI 49104-0211 Tel: 616.471.3558 Fax: 616.471.6611 http://www.andrews.edu ImpacTeen will identify and track drug control policies and programs at the state level for all 50 United States and the District of Columbia to evaluate their effectiveness in reducing mortality, morbidity, and psychosocial problems associated with substance use and abuse. Directing this component of the project are: Duane McBride, PhD Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, PhD Curtis VanderWaal, PhD, MSW Jamie Chriqui, MHS, PhD Richard Clayton, PhD Click on the names above, to learn about the researchers. To return to the top of this page, click on the "State Illicit Drug Research" button on the left side of your browser. Duane McBride, PhD Duane McBride is chair of the Behavioral Sciences Department at Andrews University and director of the University's Institute for the Prevention of Addictions. He received his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Kentucky in 1976. His research interests include national drug policy, consequences of drug use, drug use etiology and prevention, health service research and drug treatment program evaluation. Dr. McBride has published approximately 80 articles, chapters, books and monographs in these research areas as well as making frequent presentations at scientific and professional meetings. He is also currently the Co-Principal Investigator of a Health Services Research Center funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. McBride also currently serves as Chair of a NIH grant review committee on AIDS prevention. Tel: 616.471.3686 Fax: 616.471.3108 E-mail: mcbride@andrews.edu Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, PhD Rosalie Liccardo Pacula is an associate economist in the Health and Criminal Justice Programs at RAND and faculty research fellow in the Health Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Pacula's research has focused on evaluating the effectiveness of public policies on youth substance use and abuse and their social costs, including: analyses of the impact of youth access laws and enforcement on youth smoking; gender and racial differences in responsiveness to tobacco policies; the impact of magazine tobacco advertising on youth smoking; the impact of higher cigarette and alcohol prices on demand for marijuana, cocaine and heroin; and the effects of prices and public policies on demand for marijuana. She is principal investigator on a grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to investigate social costs associated with marijuana use. Tel: 310.451.6930, x 6494 Fax: 310.451.6930 E-mail: pacula@rand.org Curtis VanderWaal, PhD, MSW Curtis VanderWaal is an associate professor of Social Work at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. He completed his Master of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan in 1987 and his Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1995. The majority of his research has focused on substance abuse treatment, prevention, and AIDS. He has published substance abuse research findings in the Journal of Drug Issues, Substance Use and Misuse, The Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research and co-authored, with Duane McBride, a research monograph for the National Institute of Justice titled Breaking the Cycle of Drug Use among Juvenile Delinquents. He has presented 17 professional papers at national and international conferences. Additionally, he is the former director of the Bachelor of Social Work Program at Andrews University. Tel: 616.471.6005 Fax: 616.471.3686 E-mail: vanderwa@andrews.edu Jamie Chriqui, MHS, PhD Jamie Chriqui is Vice-President of the Center for Alcohol and Drug Policy at The MayaTech Corporation. She specializes in the comparative analysis of policy information, with particular emphasis on alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug policies. Dr. Chriqui is also principal investigator on a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to collect and analyze local alcohol policy information. She also serves as project manager of a project to rate the extensiveness of state and local tobacco control laws for the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) American Stop Smoking Intervention Study (ASSIST). In addition, Ms. Chriqui serves as the work assignment manager for the research and analysis of data and the information dissemination components of NCI's State Cancer Legislative Database Program. Ms. Chriqui worked at the National Institute on Drug Abuse for six years. She received her Master of Health Science degree in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and her PhD in Policy Sciences (Health Policy Concentration) from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Tel: 301.587.1600 Fax: 301.587.0709 E-mail: jamie@mayatech.com Richard Clayton, PhD Richard Clayton is a professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is also the scientific director of the Center for Prevention Research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (since 1987); and Chair of the Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1996-2004). Dr. Clayton's education includes a BA degree in sociology from Louisiana College (1963), an MS degree in sociology from Florida State University (1966), and a PhD in sociology from the University of Tennessee (1970). He has served on a number of NIH review committees and a term as a member of the NIDA National Advisory Council. Tel: 606.257.5588 Fax: 606.257.5592 E-mail: clayton@pop.uky.edu