Rockville Institute Affiliates in
Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment

Rebecca M. Buchanan, PhD
Barry D. Caudill, PhD
Scott Crosse, PhD
Wendy Kissin, PhD
Craig Love, PhD
James W. Luckey, PhD

Rebecca M. Buchanan, PhD, has research expertise that focuses on understanding how family, schools, community, and culture interact to affect the well-being of children and youth. As project director for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Materials Development Center for Excellence, she conducted health communications research and developed preventive interventions for FASD, including an award-winning documentary. Dr. Buchanan also has experience evaluating substance abuse prevention and treatment programs.
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Barry D. Caudill, PhD, has had a lifelong career in studying addictive behaviors. He has served as a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on over a dozen addictions studies. His specialties include local, regional, and national studies of substance abuse prevention and risk reduction in high school and college students; community prevention and risk reduction trials for driving while intoxicated (DWI); comparative treatment outcome research with drug abusers; laboratory research on alcohol, social behavior, expectancies, and social psychophysiology; risk and protective factors for substance abuse; and encouraging innovations in assessment technologies for behavioral research on alcohol abuse. Dr. Caudill has authored more than 100 publications and conference presentations.
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Scott Crosse, PhD, is a senior researcher with experience conducting applied research on social programs and policy issues at both the community and national levels. Much of his work has focused on the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) problems. Dr. Crosse has led research on the prevalence and implementation of school-based ATOD and crime prevention programs; the effectiveness of prevention programs intended to curb high-risk alcohol use among university students; the effectiveness of community-based prevention programs; and the design of a community-based program to prevent alcohol use among pregnant women. His areas of expertise include program evaluation, survey research, research design, and data analysis.
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Wendy Kissin, PhD, is a practicing clinical psychologist with a focus on substance abuse treatment, primarily among pregnant and parenting women and their children. Dr. Kissin has conducted clinical, behavioral, and survey research studies, as well as analyses using administrative data. She has peer-reviewed publications in the areas of treatment outcomes; psychiatric comorbidity; characterization of the children of pregnant drug-dependent women; as well as treatment itself, including buprenorphine treatment, self-help attendance (e.g., Alcoholics Anonymous), and predicting premature dropout from residential treatment.
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Craig Love, PhD, has extensive experience in program planning, evaluation, and research on substance abuse prevention and treatment. He has developed and evaluated substance abuse prevention programs for juveniles and specifically for Native American juveniles. In addition, Dr. Love has conducted research on substance abuse treatment outcomes with emphasis on aftercare, cost-effectiveness, and populations of offenders, women, children, and Native Americans. He also served for 8 years as a director of a multilevel treatment program.
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James W. Luckey, PhD, has lead or served as the senior scientific advisor on projects funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). His treatment-related research has covered topics related to interventions, managed care, buprenorphine, and performance measurement. Dr. Luckey's prevention work has spanned large-scale evaluations, drinking and driving, and college drinking. In addition, he has worked on epidemiological studies and led needs assessment projects.
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