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Keith Humphreys is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly in the field of epidemiology. Their publication record includes 183 works in medicine, with significant focus on subfields such as epidemiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, clinical psychology, and emergency medicine.

Humphreys' research primarily addresses topics related to substance use and treatment outcomes. The main topics include opioid use disorder treatment, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, HIV related to drug use and sexual risk, mental health treatment and access, pain management and opioid use, prenatal substance exposure effects, as well as forensic toxicology and drug analysis.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Humphreys include Christine Timko, John Marsden, Wayne Hall, Matthew Hickman, and Shane Darke. These collaborations are reflected across multiple publications and research projects.

Their work is often published in prominent venues such as Addiction, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, JAMA Network Open, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and The Lancet Regional Health - Americas.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Humphreys include:

  • Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs for alcohol use disorder, 2020, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Mitigating and learning from the impact of COVID-19 infection on addictive disorders, 2020, Addiction
  • Steep increases in fentanyl-related mortality west of the Mississippi River: Recent evidence from county and state surveillance, 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Alcoholics Anonymous and 12-Step Facilitation Treatments for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Distillation of a 2020 Cochrane Review for Clinicians and Policy Makers, 2020, Alcohol and Alcoholism
  • Cost-effectiveness of Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines and overdose: retrospective analysis

    Eric C Sun;Anjali Dixit;Keith Humphreys;Beth D Darnall

  • Drug Policy and the Public Good

    Thomas F. Babor;Jonathan P. Caulkins;Griffith Edwards;Benedikt Fischer

  • Meta‐analysis of naltrexone and acamprosate for treating alcohol use disorders: when are these medications most helpful?

    Natalya C. Maisel;Janet C. Blodgett;Paula L. Wilbourne;Keith Humphreys;Keith Humphreys

  • Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs for alcohol use disorder.

    John F Kelly;Keith Humphreys;Marica Ferri

  • Circles of recovery : self-help organizations for addictions

    Keith Humphreys

  • Electronic support groups for breast carcinoma: a clinical trial of effectiveness.

    Morton A. Lieberman;Mitch Golant;Janine Giese-Davis;Andy Winzlenberg

  • Social networks as mediators of the effect of Alcoholics Anonymous

    Lee Ann Kaskutas;Jason Bond;Keith Humphreys

  • Self-help organizations for alcohol and drug problems: Toward evidence-based practice and policy

    Keith Humphreys;Stephen Wing;Dennis McCarty;John Chappel

  • Drug policy and the public good: evidence for effective interventions

    John Strang;Thomas Babor;Jonathan Caulkins;Jonathan Caulkins;Benedikt Fischer;Benedikt Fischer

  • Do enhanced friendship networks and active coping mediate the effect of self-help groups on substance abuse?

    Keith Humphreys;Eric S. Mankowski;Eric S. Mankowski;Rudolf H. Moos;Rudolf H. Moos;John W. Finney;John W. Finney

  • Social and community resources and long-term recovery from treated and untreated alcoholism.

    K Humphreys;R H Moos;C Cohen

  • Governmental standard drink definitions and low-risk alcohol consumption guidelines in 37 countries.

    Agnieszka Kalinowski;Keith Humphreys;Keith Humphreys

  • Modeling Health Benefits and Harms of Public Policy Responses to the US Opioid Epidemic.

    Allison L. Pitt;Keith Humphreys;Margaret L. Brandeau

  • Mutual help groups for mental health problems: A review of effectiveness studies

    Nancy Pistrang;Chris Barker;Keith Humphreys

  • Can Encouraging Substance Abuse Patients to Participate in Self‐Help Groups Reduce Demand for Health Care? A Quasi‐Experimental Study

    Keith Humphreys;Rudolf Moos

  • Mitigating and learning from the impact of COVID-19 infection on addictive disorders.

    John Marsden;Shane Darke;Wayne Hall;Matthew Hickman

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

    Keith Humphreys;Lee Ann Kaskutas;Constance Weisner

  • Alcoholics anonymous involvement and positive alcohol-related outcomes: cause, consequence, or just a correlate? A prospective 2-year study of 2,319 alcohol-dependent men.

    John McKellar;Eric Stewart;Keith Humphreys

  • A randomized controlled trial of an internet-based intervention for alcohol abusers

    John Alastair Cunningham;John Alastair Cunningham;T. Cameron Wild;Joanne Cordingley;Trevor Van Mierlo

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Finney
John W. Finney VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Rudolf H. Moos
Rudolf H. Moos Stanford University
John Strang
John Strang King's College London
Benedikt Fischer
Benedikt Fischer University of Auckland
David R. Foxcroft
David R. Foxcroft Oxford Brookes University
Alex H. S. Harris
Alex H. S. Harris Stanford University
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
Ingeborg Rossow
Ingeborg Rossow Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Jürgen Rehm
Jürgen Rehm University of Toronto
Thomas F. Babor
Thomas F. Babor University of Connecticut

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