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Elizabeth Evans is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily centers on medicine, with a strong emphasis on public health, epidemiology, and clinical psychology. The scientist's work encompasses fields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and clinical psychology.

The main topics covered by Elizabeth Evans focus notably on opioid use disorder treatment and substance abuse treatment and outcomes. Other significant topics in their research portfolio include prenatal substance exposure effects, health policy implementation science, HIV, drug use and sexual risk, healthcare decision-making and restraints, as well as pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes.

The researcher has published extensively, contributing notably to the following venues:

  • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Health & Justice
  • Addiction

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Elizabeth Evans include:

  • Recidivism and mortality after in-jail buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder, 2022, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Massachusetts Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (MassJCOIN), 2021, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Their most common coauthors include:

  • Peter D. Friedmann
  • Thomas J. Stopka
  • Ekaterina Pivovarova
  • Warren J. Ferguson
  • Claudia Santelices

Elizabeth Evans's research addresses critical issues related to opioid use disorder treatment, including community-based treatment continuity and outcomes. Their studies have incorporated multisite trials and qualitative investigations within justice settings.

Best Publications

  • Long-term course of opioid addiction.

    Yih-Ing Hser;Elizabeth Evans;Christine Grella;Walter Ling

  • Relationship Between Drug Treatment Services, Retention, and Outcomes

    Yih-Ing Hser;Elizabeth Evans;David Huang;Douglas M. Anglin

  • Benefit-cost in the California treatment outcome project: does substance abuse treatment "pay for itself"?

    Susan L Ettner;David Huang;Elizabeth Evans;Danielle Rose Ash

  • Long-term outcomes after randomization to buprenorphine/naloxone versus methadone in a multi-site trial

    Yih Ing Hser;Elizabeth Evans;David Huang;Robert Weiss

  • Treatment outcomes among women and men methamphetamine abusers in California.

    Yih-Ing Hser;Elizabeth Evans;Yu-Chuang Huang

  • Client and program factors associated with dropout from court mandated drug treatment

    Elizabeth Evans;Libo Li;Yih-Ing Hser

  • A system dynamics model for planning cardiovascular disease interventions.

    Gary B. Hirsch;Jack B. Homer;Elizabeth Evans;Ann Zielinski

  • Contrasting Trajectories of Heroin, Cocaine, and Methamphetamine Use

    Yih-Ing Hser;David Huang;Mary-Lynn Brecht;Libo Li

  • Mortality among individuals accessing pharmacological treatment for opioid dependence in California, 2006–10

    Elizabeth Evans;Libo Li;Jeong Min;David Huang

  • Polydrug use and its association with drug treatment outcomes among primary heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine users

    Linwei Wang;Jeong Eun Min;Emanuel Krebs;Elizabeth Evans;Elizabeth Evans

  • Polydrug use and implications for longitudinal research: ten-year trajectories for heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine users.

    Mary-Lynn Brecht;David Huang;Elizabeth Evans;Yih-Ing Hser

  • Comparing the dynamic course of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine use over 10 years

    Yih-Ing Hser;Elizabeth Evans;David Huang;Mary-Lynn Brecht

  • Abuse and misuse of antidepressants.

    Elizabeth A Evans;Maria A Sullivan

  • Using Administrative Data for Longitudinal Substance Abuse Research

    Elizabeth Evans;Christine E. Grella;Debra A. Murphy;Yih-Ing Hser

  • Defining dosing pattern characteristics of successful tapers following methadone maintenance treatment: results from a population-based retrospective cohort study.

    Bohdan Nosyk;Bohdan Nosyk;Huiying Sun;Elizabeth Evans;David C. Marsh

  • Maternal mental health and children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors: Beyond maternal substance use disorders.

    Yih-Ing Hser;H. Isabella Lanza;Libo Li;Emily Kahn

  • Gender and race/ethnic differences in the persistence of alcohol, drug, and poly-substance use disorders

    Elizabeth A. Evans;Christine E. Grella;Donna L. Washington;Donna L. Washington;Dawn M. Upchurch

  • Effects of a randomized contingency management intervention on opiate abstinence and retention in methadone maintenance treatment in China

    Yih Ing Hser;Jianhua Li;Haifeng Jiang;Ruimin Zhang

  • Employment Trajectories: Exploring Gender Differences and Impacts of Drug Use.

    David Y.C. Huang;Elizabeth Evans;Motoaki Hara;Robert E. Weiss

  • Outcomes of Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs Among American Indians in California

    Elizabeth Evans;Suzanne E. Spear;Yu-Chang Huang;Yih-Ing Hser

  • Correlates of Long-Term Opioid Abstinence After Randomization to Methadone Versus Buprenorphine/Naloxone in a Multi-Site Trial.

    Yuhui Zhu;Elizabeth A Evans;Larissa J Mooney;Larissa J Mooney;Andrew J Saxon

Frequent Co-Authors

Yih-Ing Hser
Yih-Ing Hser University of California, Los Angeles
Christine E. Grella
Christine E. Grella University of California, Los Angeles
Richard A. Rawson
Richard A. Rawson University of California, Los Angeles
Debra A. Murphy
Debra A. Murphy University of California, Los Angeles
Kathleen M. Carroll
Kathleen M. Carroll Yale University
Judith A. Stein
Judith A. Stein University of California, Los Angeles
Tracy L. Simpson
Tracy L. Simpson University of Washington
John M. Roll
John M. Roll Washington State University

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