The purpose of this proposed Senior Scientist Award (K05) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse is to provide stability of support for Professor James C. Anthony of the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, in relation to his program of continuing research, research training, mentoring, and science education on the topics of drug dependence epidemiology and enviromics. The research plan and career development activities are organized in relation to five main rubrics of epidemiology and associated research questions: (1) Within the population, how many people are becoming affected by clinically significant syndromes of drug dependence? How many cases have accumulated? (2) Within the population, where are we more (or less) likely to find drug dependence cases, in relation to characteristics of person, place, and time? (3) What accounts for some people becoming drug dependent while others are spared? (4) How do linked sequences of events and processes lead toward the transition from being a non-case to becoming a case of drug dependence, and the hazardous consequences of becoming or being a case? and (5) What can we do to prevent, delay, or reduce the risk of becoming a case of drug dependence, to reduce the duration, or to ameliorate the associated suffering? Whereas the 'genome' refers to the total ensemble of genetic material for a form of life, the 'envirome' is the total ensemble of environmental processes and circumstances required for life form viability and successful adaptation. In complement with genomics and proteomics, drug dependence enviromics is a deliberate search for specific environmental processes and circumstances that promote health by reducing the risk, prevalence, and problems of drug dependence. In drug dependence enviromics, the main objects of study are neither the gene nor the environment, but rather the gene-environment interactions that give rise to drug dependence, prevent or sustain it, interrupt its natural history, and reduce the global burden of drug dependence and associated disabilities.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Research Scientist Award (K05)
Project #
5K05DA015799-06
Application #
7254785
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZDA1-MXS-M (20))
Program Officer
Schulden, Jeffrey D
Project Start
2003-09-30
Project End
2009-09-30
Budget Start
2007-07-01
Budget End
2009-09-30
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
2007
Total Cost
$146,301
Indirect Cost
Name
Michigan State University
Department
Public Health & Prev Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
193247145
City
East Lansing
State
MI
Country
United States
Zip Code
48824
Santiago Rivera, Olga J; Havens, Jennifer R; Parker, Maria A et al. (2018) Risk of Heroin Dependence in Newly Incident Heroin Users. JAMA Psychiatry 75:863-864
Parker, Maria A; Anthony, James C (2018) A prospective study of newly incident cannabis use and cannabis risk perceptions: Results from the United States Monitoring the Future study, 1976-2013. Drug Alcohol Depend 187:351-357
Scott, K M; Koenen, K C; King, A et al. (2018) Post-traumatic stress disorder associated with sexual assault among women in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. Psychol Med 48:155-167
Mortier, Philippe; Auerbach, Randy P; Alonso, Jordi et al. (2018) Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among college students and same-aged peers: results from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 53:279-288
Cheng, Hui G; Anthony, James C (2018) Female-male differences in alcohol dependence levels: Evidence on newly incident adolescent and young-adult drinkers in the United States, 2002-2014. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 27:e1717
Negi, Nalini Junko; Maskell, Erin; Goodman, Marci et al. (2018) Providing social services in a new immigrant settlement city: A qualitative inquiry. Am J Orthopsychiatry 88:16-25
Alonso, Jordi; Mortier, Philippe; Auerbach, Randy P et al. (2018) Severe role impairment associated with mental disorders: Results of the WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Project. Depress Anxiety 35:802-814
Negi, Nalini Junko; Prickett, Julia Clark; Overdorff, Adrianna Marie et al. (2018) Return-Migration to Mexico and the Gendered Transnational Migration Process. Psychol Men Masc 19:385-391
Peralta, Robert L; L Mulhollem, Marcella; Blue, Courtney et al. (2018) The Association between Heavy Episodic Drinking and Gender Orientation among U.S. College Students: The Significance of Masculinity. Subst Use Misuse 53:910-920
Parker, Maria A; Anthony, James C (2018) Population-level predictions from cannabis risk perceptions to active cannabis use prevalence in the United States, 1991-2014. Addict Behav 82:101-104

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