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1777

Overview

Carl G. Leukefeld is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a focus on medicine, psychology, and health professions. The scientist's work prominently intersects areas such as substance abuse treatment and outcomes, prenatal substance exposure effects, and opioid use disorder treatment.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research in the fields of general health professions and clinical psychology, as well as epidemiology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and public health, environmental, and occupational health. Their investigations frequently cover issues related to child abuse and trauma, homelessness and social issues, health policy implementation science, and criminal justice and corrections analysis.

Their recent academic publications include:

  • Kentucky Women's Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN): A type 1 effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial to increase utilization of medications for opioid use disorder among justice-involved women (2021), published in Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Identifying and Treating Incarcerated Women Experiencing Substance Use Disorders: A Review (2023), published in Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation
  • Screening Incarcerated Women for Opioid Use Disorder (2023), published in Journal of Drug Issues
  • Critical Factors Influencing Interorganizational Relationships Between Juvenile Probation and Behavioral Health Agencies (2020), published in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
  • A Preliminary Examination of Substance Use Risk among Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Girls Involved in the Juvenile Justice System (2020), published in Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers including Michele Staton, Martha Tillson, J. Matthew Webster, Megan F. Dickson, and Carrie B. Oser.

Carl G. Leukefeld's work has appeared regularly in publication venues such as Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation, BMC Women's Health, and Journal of Drug Issues.

Best Publications

  • Personality disorders as extreme variants of common personality dimensions: can the Five-Factor Model adequately represent psychopathy?

    Joshua D. Miller;Donald R. Lyman;Thomas A. Widiger;Carl Leukefeld

  • A test of the four-factor model of impulsivity-related traits

    Joshua Miller;Kate Flory;Donald Lynam;Carl Leukefeld

  • Early adolescent through young adult alcohol and marijuana use trajectories: early predictors, young adult outcomes, and predictive utility.

    Kate Flory;Donald Lynam;Richard Milich;Carl Leukefeld

  • Women, sex, and HIV: Social and contextual factors, meta-analysis of published interventions, and implications for practice and research

    T. K. Logan;Jennifer Cole;Carl Leukefeld

  • Project DARE: No Effects at 10-Year Follow-Up

    Donald R. Lynam;Richard Milich;Rick Zimmerman;Scott P. Novak

  • The utility of the Five Factor Model in understanding risky sexual behavior

    Joshua D Miller;Donald Lynam;Rick S Zimmerman;T.K Logan

  • Motivation as a Predictor of Therapeutic Engagement in Mandated Residential Substance Abuse Treatment

    Matthew L. Hiller;Kevin Knight;Carl Leukefeld;D. Dwayne Simpson

  • The relations among personality, symptoms of alcohol and marijuana abuse, and symptoms of comorbid psychopathology: results from a community sample.

    Kate Flory;Donald R. Lynam;Richard Milich;Carl G. Leukefeld

  • Individual and Network Factors Associated With Prevalent Hepatitis C Infection Among Rural Appalachian Injection Drug Users

    Jennifer R. Havens;Michelle R. Lofwall;Simon D. W. Frost;Carrie B. Oser

  • A Systematic Review of Recent Literature on Religiosity and Substance Use

    Dale D. Chitwood;Michael L. Weiss;Carl G. Leukefeld

  • Victimization and Substance Abuse among Women: Contributing Factors, Interventions, and Implications:

    TK Logan;Robert Walker;Jennifer Cole;Carl Leukefeld

  • Examining antisocial behavior through the lens of the five factor model of personality

    Joshua D. Miller;Donald Lynam;Carl Leukefeld

  • Relation between childhood disruptive behavior disorders and substance use and dependence symptoms in young adulthood: individuals with symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder are uniquely at risk.

    Kate Flory;Richard Milich;Donald R. Lynam;Carl Leukefeld

  • Risky Sex Behavior and Substance Use among Young Adults

    Michele Staton;Carl G. Leukefeld;TK Logan;Rick Zimmerman

  • Substance Use, Health, and Mental Health: Problems and Service Utilization Among Incarcerated Women

    Michele Staton;Carl Leukefeld;J. Matthew Webster

  • Stalking as a variant of intimate violence: implications from a young adult sample.

    T. K. Logan;Carl Leukefeld;Bob Walker

  • Qualitative Differences Among Rural and Urban Intimate Violence Victimization Experiences and Consequences: A Pilot Study

    T. K. Logan;Robert Walker;Jennifer Cole;Stephanie Ratliff

  • RURAL-URBAN DIFFERENCES IN SUBSTANCE USE AND TREATMENT UTILIZATION AMONG PRISONERS

    Barbara D. Warner;Carl G. Leukefeld

  • Route of administration for illicit prescription opioids: a comparison of rural and urban drug users

    April M Young;April M Young;Jennifer R Havens;Carl G Leukefeld

  • Rural and urban women's perceptions of barriers to health, mental health, and criminal justice services: implications for victim services.

    TK Logan;Erin Stevenson;Lucy Evans;Carl Leukefeld

  • Personality disorders as extreme variants of common personality dimensions : Can the Five-Factor Model adequately represent psychopathy? : Personality dimensions and disorders

    Joshua D. Miller;Donald R. Lynam;Thomas A. Widiger;Carl Leukefeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald R. Lynam
Donald R. Lynam Purdue University West Lafayette
Judith S. Brook
Judith S. Brook New York University
Linda B. Cottler
Linda B. Cottler University of Florida
Kate Flory
Kate Flory University of South Carolina
Richard Milich
Richard Milich University of Kentucky
Steven Belenko
Steven Belenko Temple University
William W. Stoops
William W. Stoops University of Kentucky
Joshua D. Miller
Joshua D. Miller University of Georgia
Rick S. Zimmerman
Rick S. Zimmerman Wayne State University
Justin C. Strickland
Justin C. Strickland Johns Hopkins University

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