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Constance Weisner

Constance Weisner

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Medicine

D-Index
82
Citations
22667
World Ranking
16217
National Ranking
8154

Overview

Constance Weisner is affiliated with Kaiser Permanente in the United States and has a research focus rooted primarily in medicine. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including epidemiology, general health professions, pathology and forensic medicine, clinical psychology, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

The research topics frequently addressed by Weisner involve substance abuse treatment and outcomes, alcohol consumption and health effects, homelessness and social issues, opioid use disorder treatment, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, diabetes management and education, and prenatal substance exposure effects.

Weisner has contributed to a number of studies published in prominent venues. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Emergency Department Encounters Among Youth With Suicidal Thoughts or Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • Associations Between Medical Conditions and Alcohol Consumption Levels in an Adult Primary Care Population (2020) published in JAMA Network Open
  • The role of substance use disorders in experiencing a repeat opioid overdose, and substance use treatment patterns among patients with a non-fatal opioid overdose (2020) published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Changes in Diagnostic and Demographic Characteristics of Patients Seeking Mental Health Care During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic in a Large, Community-Based Health Care System (2021) published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Associations Between Psychiatric Disorders and Alcohol Consumption Levels in an Adult Primary Care Population (2020) published in Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research

The venues where Weisner frequently publishes include:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
  • Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment
  • JAMA Network Open

Frequent coauthors include Stacy Sterling, Derek D. Satre, Andrea H. Kline-Simon, Vanessa A. Palzes, and W. Felicia, with collaboration counts ranging from 20 to 33 joint works.

Best Publications

  • Opioid prescriptions for chronic pain and overdose: a cohort study.

    Kate M Dunn;Kathleen W Saunders;Carolyn M Rutter;Caleb J Banta-Green

  • Opioid Prescriptions for Chronic Pain and Overdose

    Kate M. Dunn;Kathleen W. Saunders;Carolyn M. Rutter;Caleb J. Banta-Green

  • De facto long-term opioid therapy for noncancer pain.

    Michael Von Korff;Kathleen Saunders;Gary Thomas Ray;Denise Boudreau

  • Trends in long-term opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain.

    Denise Boudreau;Michael Von Korff;Carolyn M. Rutter;Kathleen Saunders

  • Integrating primary medical care with addiction treatment: a randomized controlled trial.

    Constance Weisner;Jennifer Mertens;Sujaya Parthasarathy;Charles Moore

  • Concurrent and simultaneous drug and alcohol use: Results of the 2000 National Alcohol Survey

    Lorraine T. Midanik;Tammy W. Tam;Constance Weisner;Constance Weisner

  • Age and Gender Trends in Long-Term Opioid Analgesic Use for Noncancer Pain

    Cynthia I. Campbell;Constance Weisner;Linda LeResche;G. Thomas Ray

  • How important is treatment? One‐year outcomes of treated and untreated alcohol‐dependent individuals

    Constance Weisner;Constance Weisner;Helen Matzger;Lee Ann Kaskutas

  • The persistent influence of social networks and alcoholics anonymous on abstinence.

    Jason Bond;Lee Ann Kaskutas;Constance Weisner

  • Relationship of opioid use and dosage levels to fractures in older chronic pain patients.

    Kathleen W. Saunders;Kate M. Dunn;Joseph O. Merrill;Mark Sullivan

  • Predictors of substance abuse treatment retention among women and men in an HMO.

    Jennifer R. Mertens;Constance M. Weisner

  • Medical and psychiatric conditions of alcohol and drug treatment patients in an HMO: comparison with matched controls.

    Jennifer R. Mertens;Yun W. Lu;Sujaya Parthasarathy;Charles Moore

  • Trends in long-term opioid therapy for noncancer pain among persons with a history of depression

    Jennifer Brennan Braden;Mark D. Sullivan;G. Thomas Ray;Kathleen Saunders

  • Five-year alcohol and drug treatment outcomes of older adults versus middle-aged and younger adults in a managed care program.

    Derek D. Satre;Derek D. Satre;Jennifer R. Mertens;Jennifer R. Mertens;Patricia A. Areán;Constance Weisner;Constance Weisner

  • Trends in Self-reported and Biochemically Tested Marijuana Use Among Pregnant Females in California From 2009-2016

    Kelly C. Young-Wolff;Lue-Yen Tucker;Stacey Alexeeff;Mary Anne Armstrong

  • The Alcoholics Anonymous Affiliation Scale: Development, Reliability, and Norms for Diverse Treated and Untreated Populations

    Keith Humphreys;Lee Ann Kaskutas;Constance Weisner

  • Trends in the treatment of alcohol problems in the US general population, 1979 through 1990.

    C Weisner;T Greenfield;R Room

  • Use of exclusion criteria in selecting research subjects and its effect on the generalizability of alcohol treatment outcome studies.

    Keith Humphreys;Constance Weisner

  • Who goes to alcohol and drug treatment? Understanding utilization within the context of insurance.

    Constance Weisner;Helen Matzger;Tammy Tam;Laura Schmidt

  • Medical and Psychiatric Conditions of Alcohol and Drug Treatment Patients in an HMO

    Jennifer R. Mertens;Yun W. Lu;Sujaya Parthasarathy;Charles Moore

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek D. Satre
Derek D. Satre University of California, San Francisco
Jennifer R. Mertens
Jennifer R. Mertens Kaiser Permanente
Lee Ann Kaskutas
Lee Ann Kaskutas University of California, Berkeley
Laura A. Schmidt
Laura A. Schmidt University of California, San Francisco
Michael J. Silverberg
Michael J. Silverberg Kaiser Permanente
Michael Von Korff
Michael Von Korff Kaiser Permanente
Dennis McCarty
Dennis McCarty Oregon Health & Science University
Alan J. Flisher
Alan J. Flisher University of Cape Town
Kevin L. Delucchi
Kevin L. Delucchi University of California, San Francisco
Ingrid A. Binswanger
Ingrid A. Binswanger Kaiser Permanente

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