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Papers and Chapters (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)

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Saunders JB, Cottler LB.   The development of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders version V substance use disorders section: establishing the research framework.  Current Opinions in Psychiatry 2007; May 20(3):208-12.

Cunningham-Williams RM, Ben Abdallah A, Callahan C, Cottler LB. Problem gambling and violence among community-recruited female substance abusers. Psychology of Addictive Behavior (in press May 2007).

Ben Abdallah A, Scheier LM, Inciardi JA, Copeland J, Cottler LB. A psycho-economic model of ecstasy consumption and related consequences. Substance Use and Misuse (accepted September 2006).

Bliss JR. Help for helpers: Do Missouri mental health counselors need an organization to help with impaired colleagues? Missouri Mental Health Counselors Newsletter April 28, 2006.

Cottler LB, Garvin EC, Callahan C. Condom use and the risk of HPV infection. New England Journal of Medicine 2006;355(13):1388-9.

Cottler LB, Grant B. Characteristics of nosologically informative datasets that address key diagnostic issues facing the DSM V and ICD 11 substance use disorders workgroups. APA Monograph for SUD (accepted May 2006).

Cottler LB, Grant B. Characteristics of nosologically informative datasets that address key diagnostic issues facing the DSM V and ICD 11 substance use disorders workgroups. Addiction (supplement September 2006).

Hoffer L. Junkie business: The evolution and operation of a heroin dealing network. Thompson-Wadsworth Press 2006.

Hoffer L. Book Review: Something Dangerous. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (accepted February 2006).

Johnson SD, Striley CW, Cottler LB. The association of substance use disorders with trauma exposure and PTSD among African American drug users.  Addictive Behaviors (accepted February 2006).

Saunders JB, Cottler LB. The development of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders version V substance use disorders section: establishing the research framework. Current Opinions in Psychiatry May 2007;20(3):208-12.

Striley CW, Cottler LB, Margavio C. Gender and race matching preferences for HIV post-test counseling. AIDS Care 2006; 18: 49-53.

Striley CW. Comprehensible authority: Not an oxymoron. PsychCritiques 2006.

Vaddiparti K, Bogetto J, Callahan C, Ben Abdallah A, Spitznagel E, Cottler LB. The effects of childhood trauma on sex trading in substance using women. Archives of Sexual Behavior (published August 2006).

Wang X. Antisocial personality disorder is associated with increased severity of gambling, medical, drug and psychiatric problems among treatment-seeking pathological gamblers. Letter to the Editor. Addiction May 2006;101(5):748.

Chandler-Ezell KA. Food as medicine or medicine as food? Section News: Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Anthropology News 2005; 46 (4).

Chandler-Ezell KA. Old fashioned tonics. The Herbarist. Submitted February 2005.

Cottler LB, et al. Key Nosologic Issues for DSM V. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Submitted May 2005.

Cunningham-Williams RM, Grucza R, Cottler LB, Womack SB, Books SJ,  Przbeck TR, Spitznagel EL, Cloninger R. Prevalence and predictors of pathological gambling: Results from the St. Louis personality, health and lifestyle (SLPHL) study. Journal of Psychiatric Research 2005; 39:377-390.

Johnson SD, Striley CW, Cottler LB. Substance use progression and trauma exposure among African-American drug users.  Journal of Traumatic Stress. Submitted May 2005.

Krishna VAS, Bogetto J, Callahan C, Ben Abdallah A, Cottler LB. Victim and perpetrator childhood trauma among women and the effect on later sex trading. Archives of Sexual Behavior.  Submitted June 2005.

Krishna VAS, Callahan C, Ben Abdallah A, Spitznagel E, Cottler LB. Pathways between childhood victimization, adult depression, cocaine dependence and sex trading among substance abusing women. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Submitted April 2005.

Krishna VAS, Chandra, PS. Family planning needs of severe psychiatrically ill. Journal of Medical Research. Submitted March 2005.

North CS, Eyrich KM, Pollio DE, Foster DA, Cottler LB, Spitznagel EL. The homeless supplement to the Diagnostic Interview Schedule: Test-retest analyses. Intl. J. Methods Psychiatric Research 2004; 13:184-191.

Striley C, Johnson S, Cottler LB. Received health care and attitudes about health care among out of treatment drug users. Medical Care Research and Review. Submitted May 2005.

Ben Abdallah A, Striley CW, Brown MA, Cottler LB. Traits of hard to track substance abusers at a six month follow-up. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Submitted November 2004.

Books SJ, Cottler LB, Cunningham-Williams RM. Using focus groups in the development of a diagnostic gambling assessment: The gambling Assessment Module (the GAM©). International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. Submitted September 2004.

Chandler-Ezell KA. The reliability of telephone interviews compared with in-person interviews using memory aids. Letter to the Editor, Annals of Epidemiology. (In press.)

Chandler-Ezell KA. Ethnohistoric folklore and uses of origanum. The Herbarist. (In press.)

Chandler-Ezell KA. Tonics: A cross-culture classification system for coding and comparing tonic remedies. Medical Anthropology.  Submitted November 2004.

Chandler-Ezell KA. De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes, by Leonard Fuchs, 1542.  Book Review, Economic Botany 2004; 58(3):492-493.

Chandler-Ezell KA, Pearsall DM, Zeidler JA. Root and tuber phytoliths and starch grain evidence reveal ‘the raw and the cooked’ at Real Alto, Ecuador. Latin American Antiquity. Revised November 2004.

Chandra PS, Krishna VAS, Carey MP. Improving knowledge about HIV/AIDS among persons with severe mental illness in India. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychology. Submitted July 2004.

Cottler LB, Campbell W, Krishna VAS, Cunningham-Williams R, Ben Abdallah A. Predictors of high rates of suicidal ideation among drug users. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. (In press.)

Cunningham-Williams RM, Grucza R, Cottler LB, Womack SB, Books SJ,  Przbeck TR, Spitznagel EL, Cloninger R. Prevalence and predictors of pathological gambling: Results from the St. Louis personality, health and lifestyle (SLPHL) study. Journal of Psychiatric Research. (In press.)

Grant JE, Potenza MN, Hollander E, Cunningham-Williams RM, Kallio A, Nurminen T, Kim SW. A multicenter investigation of Nalmefene in the treatment of pathological gambling. Journal of the American Medical Association. Submitted November 2004.

Hoffer L, Ben Abdallah A, Cottler LB. Sub-typing cannabis dependence: Do “diagnostic orphans” need a home? Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Submitted September 2004.

Johnson SD, Striley CW, Cottler LB. Assessment of gender differences in trauma exposure and PTSD among African American drug users. Submitted November 2004.

Krishna VAS, Bhatti RS, Chandra PS. Unheard voices: Experiences of families with HIV/AIDS in India. Family Relations. Submitted October 2004.

Kurtz SP, Inciardi JA, Surratt HL, Cottler LB. Prescription drug abuse among ecstasy users in Miami. Journal of Addictive Diseases. (In press.)

McMillen JC, Proctor EK, Megivern D, Striley CW, Cabassa L, Munson M, Dickey B. Quality care in the social services: Research agenda and methods. Social Work Research. (In press.)

Ridenour TA, Maldonado-Molina M, Compton WM, Spitznagel EL, Cottler LB. Validity test of LOTAD to estimate drugs’ addictive liability for people. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Submitted June 2004.

Robins LN, Cottler LB. Making a structured psychiatric diagnostic interview faithful to the nomenclature. American Journal of Epidemiology 2004; 160:808-813.

Shrestha V, Horton J, Ridenour TA, Spitznagel EL, Cottler LB. Can stopping or cutting down on cannabis use result in withdrawal symptoms? Addiction.  Submitted June 2003.

Stiffman AR, Brown E, Striley CW, Ostmann E, Chowa G. Cultural and ethical issues concerning research on American Indian youth. Ethics and Behavior. (In press.)

Striley CW, Cottler LB, Margavio C. Gender and race matching preferences for HIV post-test counseling. AIDS Care. Submitted October 2004.

Striley CW, Johnson SD, Spitznagel E, Ben Abdallah A, Cottler LB. Predicting absolute and quantity of medical visits among chronic drug users. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Submitted October 2004.

Compton WM, Cottler LB. The Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). In Hilsenroth MJ, Segal DL (Volume Editors) and Hersen M (Editor in Chief). Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Volume 2, Personality Assessment. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; 153-162.

Chandler-Ezell K. Food Systems for Improve Human Nutrition: Linking Agriculture, Nutrition, and Productivity, by P.K. Kataki and S.C.Babu. Book review. Economic Botany (2004) 58(1):133-134.

Pearsall, Deborah M, Chandler-Ezell K, Chandler-Ezell A. Maize can still be identified using phytoliths: Response to Rovner. Journal of Archaeological Science (2004) 31:1029-1038.

Hoffer L. Junkie Business: the Evolution and Operation of a Heroin Dealing Network (Thompson-Wadsworth Press) IN PRESS. Prospectus.

Cunningham-Williams RM, Cottler LB, Womack SB. Chapter 4: Epidemiology and Assessment of Pathological Gambling Disorder. In JE Grant and MN Potenza, Understanding and Treating Pathological Gambling. American Psychiatric Press (In Press).

Cunningham-Williams RM, Grucza R, Cottler LB, Books SJ, Prybeck T, Cloninger R. Prevalence of pathological gambling among St. Louis area household residents. Submitted March 2004.

Campbell W, Krishna VAS, Cunningham-Williams R, Compton W, Ben Abdallah A, Cottler LB. Predictors of high rates of suicidal ideation among drug users in and out of treatment. Submitted November 2003.

Chandler-Ezell K. Fruits for the Future 2: Ber, by OP Pareek. Book Review Economic Botany 2003; 57:285-286.

Chandler-Ezell K, Pearsall DM. “Piggyback” microfossil processing: joint starch and phytolith sampling from stone tools. The Phytolitharien: Bulletin of the Society for Phytolith Research 2003; 15:2-8.

Compton W, Horton J, Cottler LB, Booth R, Leukefeld C, Singer M, Cunningham-Williams R, Reich W, Fortuin-Corsi K, Staton M, Fink J, Stopka T, Spitznagel E. A Multi-State Trial of Pharmacy Syringe Purchase. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2004; 81(4):661-670.

Compton WM, Cottler LB, Jacobs JL, Ben Abdallah A, Spitznagel EL. The role of psychiatric disorders in predicting drug dependence treatment outcomes. American Journal of Psychiatry 2003; 160:890-895.

Cottler LB. Toward an improved understanding of comorbidity. Journal of Gambling Studies 2003; 19(3):257-260.

Cottler LB, Hoffer L. The Club Drug Study: St. Louis, Miami, and Sydney, Australia (CD-SLAM). Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse Volume II: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group. Bethesda, Maryland: National Institute on Drug Abuse. (In press).

Cottler LB, Meeks C, Ben Abdallah A. Guidelines for Improving the Replicability, Durability and Sustainability of HIV Prevention Research. NIDA/CAMCODA Meeting Proceedings. US Department of Health and Human Services July 2003; 87-94.

Hayen K, Chandler-Ezell K. Knowledge from the weeds: a cross-cultural comparison of herbal medicine in Missouri circa the early 19th century. Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society 2004; 28:25-44.

Johnson S, Cunningham-Williams R, Cottler LB. A Tripartite of HIV-risk for African-American women: intersection of drug use, violence and depression. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2003; 70:169-175.

Johnson S, Phelps D, Cottler LB. The association of sexual dysfunction and substance use among a community epidemiological sample. Archives of Sexual Behavior 2004; 33(1):55-63.

Pearsall DM, Chandler-Ezell K, Chandler-Ezell A. Identifying maize in neotropical sediments and soils using cob phytoliths: formalizing and testing types. Journal of Archaeological Science 2003; 30:611-627.

Pearsall DM, Chandler-Ezell K, Zeidler JA. Maize in ancient Ecuador: Results of residue analysis of stone tools from the Real Alto site. Journal of Archaeological Science 2004; 31:423-442.

Ridenour TA, Cottler LB, Compton WM, Spitznagel EL, Cunningham-Williams R. Is there a progression from abuse disorders to dependence disorders? Addiction 2003; 98:635-644.

Stiffman AR, Striley C, Brown E, Limb G, Ostmann E. American Indian Youth: Who southwestern urban and reservation youth turn to for help with mental health or addictions. Journal of Child and Family Studies 2003; 12:319-333.

Striley C, Johnson S, Cottler LB. Intra-racial health disparities in a drug using population. Submitted November 2003.

Striley CW, Stiffman AR, Spitznagel E. Functioning mediates between symptoms and provider assessment. Mental Health Services Research 2003; 5:155-171.

 Oral Presentations, Poster Sessions, Lectures (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,  
 2007) Location Key: CPDD - College on Problems of Drug Dependence
                                 CEWG - Community Epidemiology Work Group
                                 SEWG - Statewide Epidemiology Work Group
                                 WPA - World Psychiatric Association
                                 APPA - American Psychopathological Association
                                 EPNEC - Eric P. Neuman Education Center
                            

Presenter(s)	Date	Reference
Ben Abdallah A, Cottler LB	6/07	Perceived availability of Ecstasy and its influence on self-reported consumption. CPDD, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
DuBois JM, Cottler LB, Callahan C	6/07	Attitudes towards research protections among female offenders and generalizable methods for improving research ethics among high-risk population. CPDD, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Vaddiparti K, Callahan C, Ben Abdallah A, Cottler LB	6/07	Predictors of adult victimization among high-risk, cocaine using women. CPDD, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Striley C, Cottler LB, Ben Abdallah A	6/07	Predicting medical care access among out-of-treatment drug using women. CPDD, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Striley C, Cottler LB	6/07	Adopting DSM-IV dependence criteria for caffeine: DSM-V implications. CPDD, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Wang X	6/07	Characteristics of Ecstasy users who had sex while on Ecstasy: An epidemiologic study in Taipei, Taiwan. CPDD, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Shacham E	4/07	Sexual risk behaviors: How reliable are they? Conference for the Dissemination for Student Research: Addictions, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
Cottler LB	4/07	Reflections on community-based HIV prevention research. Conference for the Dissemination for Student Research: Addictions, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
Striley C, Cottler LB, Ben Abdallah A	3/07	Current alcohol/drug treatment predicted by need for treatment. APPA, New York, New York.
Callahan C	3/07	Recruitment and retention. School of Nursing PhD Class, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri.
Hoffer L	2/07	Junkie business: Applying complexity theory to understand the public health significance of heroin dealing and illicit drug markets. Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Cottler LB	1/07	Evidence for MDMA Ecstasy dependence. K12 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program. Research Seminar, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Cottler LB	11/06	Speaking the language: Cross-cultural issues in treating pathological gambling and related disorders. 7th Annual NCRG Conference on Gambling and Addiction, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Cottler LB	9/06	Mini ethics course: Research integrity. Research Seminar, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Cottler LB, Callahan C, Ben Abdallah A	8/06	Enhanced HIV interventions can reduce seriously heavy drinking among women recruited from the community. XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Callahan C, Ben Abdallah A, Bradford S, Cottler LB	8/06	Long-term changes in high-risk sexual behaviors between community and court recruited female cocaine users in St. Louis. XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Cottler LB, Ben Abdallah A, Inciardi J, Copeland J	7/06	Use, abuse and dependence on club drugs in Sydney, St. Louis and Miami. WPA, Istanbul, Turkey.
Ben Abdallah A, Inciardi J, Copeland J, Cottler LB	7/06	Validity of DSM IV criteria in the tri-city sample of ecstasy users: a latent class analysis. WPA, Istanbul, Turkey.
Leung KS, Callahan C, Shiah I-S	7/06	The clinician checklist for the CIDI-Substance Abuse Module. WPA, Istanbul, Turkey.
Cottler LB	7/06	Nosological issues facing the DSM V substance abuse disorders workgroup. WPA, Istanbul, Turkey.
Cottler LB, Leung KS, Ben Abdallah A	7/06	Uniqueness and universality of DSM V substance use disorder criteria. WPA, Istanbul, Turkey.
Reich W, Hoffer L, Cotter LB	6/06	Club drug focus groups: Tales from three cities. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Callahan C, Ben Abdallah A, Cottler LB	6/06	Arrest history as a critical indicator of risk among cocaine using women. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Cottler LB, Ben Abdallah A, Callahan C	6/06	Sex (trading) in the city: Practices and beliefs about sex among female crack users who trade sex. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Vaddiparti K, Ben Abdallah A, Callahan C, Cottler LB.	6/06	Sexual and physical abuse in childhood and victimization in adulthood among substance using women. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Hoffer L	6/06	Simulating the operation of a local heroin market: New uses for ethnographic research. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Cottler LB	6/06	Epidemiological evidence for MDMA dependence. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Nurutdinova D, Ben Abdallah A, Bradford S, Callahan C, Cottler LB	6/06	HCV risk factors among street-recruited substance-abusing women. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Ridenour TA, Cottler LB	6/06	Inhalant use-related disorders: Reliability and co-occurring drug disorders. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Fague MS, Ben Abdallah A, Cottler LB	6/06	Clearing the murkiness of designing, creating, and checking scoring algorithms. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Millay TA, Callahan C, Cottler LB	6/06	Risky business: Sexual behaviors, drug use and violence among sex-trading women in St. Louis. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Vemulapalli CF, Callahan C, Ben Abdallah A, Cottler LB,	6/06	Deconstructing HIV prevention interventions among drug abusing female offenders: Preliminary results of long-term follow-up efforts. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Schlosser AV, Bradford S, Callahan C, Cottler LB	6/06	Gender differences in improvement in readiness to change crack cocaine use: Comparing peer-enhanced versus standard HIV prevention interventions.  CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Striley C, Cottler LB	6/06	Club drug use associated with drug treatment and emergency medical treatment. NIDA International Program, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Striley C, Copeland J, Inciardi J, Cottler LB	6/06	Gender differences in risk for forced sexual contact among club drug users. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Bradford S, Fague MS, Callahan C, Ben Abdallah A, Copeland J, Inciardi J, Cottler LB	6/06	Characteristics of MDMA users who endorse tolerance or withdrawal. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona
Leung KS, Inciardi J, Copeland J, Cottler LB	6/06	Relationships between pill testing, risk perception, and DSM diagnosis among MDMA users in St. Louis, Miami, and Sydney. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Ben Abdallah, Callahan C, Inciardi J Copeland J, Cottler LB	6/06	Ecstasy price expectations and their impact in current ecstasy consumption. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Johnson SD, Cottler LB,	6/06	Disentangling the comorbidity of PTSD and substance use disorders. CPDD, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Cottler LB	5/06	Reflections on 40 years of drug abuse research. Reflections Meeting, Key Largo, Florida.
Cottler LB, Striley C, Callahan C, Brooks S, Millay T, Wines L, Boone L	5/06	Recruitment and retention in minority populations - Disparity and diversity workshop. EPNEC, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Hoffer L	5/06	The illicit drug market simulation project: Making sense of a local heroin market. The MITRE Corporation, STEP: Science and Technology Expert Partnership, Director of National Intelligence, McLean, Virginia.
Hoffer L	5/06	The illicit drug market simulation project: Combining ethnography and agent-based modeling. NIDA, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland.
Hoffer L, Thorpe J	4/06	The illicit drug market simulation project: Combining ethnography and agent-based modeling. Redfish Group, CPDD, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Cottler LB	4/06	Managing your research career development - The role of serendipity, good planning, and quality mentoring. NIDA-DESPR, Washington, D.C.
Hoffer L	3/06	Transforming a Heroin Market: A Microcosm of the War on Drugs. Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Hoffer L, Singer M	3/06	Beyond the edge of the law: Studying the illicit drug trade. Society for Applied Anthropology. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Striley C, Cottler LB	3/06	Is readiness for treatment more important than depression severity in predicting referral to treatment? APPA, New York, New York.
Cottler LB	3/06	HIV and Associated Epidemics. EPNEC, Washington University, St. Louis MO
Hoffer L	3/06	Junkie Business: the Evolution and Operation of a Heroin Dealing Network. Research Seminar, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Vaddiparti K, Spitznagel EL, Ben Abdallah A, Callahan C, Cottler LB.	3/06	Childhood victimization and pathways to adult sex trading among out of treatment substance using women in the community. Scientific Meeting of APPA, New York.
Vaddiparti K, Ben Abdallah A, Callahan C, Cottler LB.	2/06	Childhood physical and sexual abuse and pathways to victimization in adulthood among heavy alcohol and drug abusing women. 2nd Annual Postdoc Scientific Symposium, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Kurtz SP, Surratt HL, Inciardi JA, Cottler LB, Copeland J.	6/05	Three-site study of prescription drug abuse among ecstasy users.  CPDD, Orlando, Florida.
Chandler-Ezell K	4/05	Hepatitis C: Lay perceptions, treatment goals, and strategies revealed by popular information sources on Complementary and Alternative Therapies.  Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico.