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Magdalena Cerdá is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Pharmacology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work covers key topics including Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, and Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation.

Cerdá has published extensively across several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Addiction
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology

Recent scientific contributions by Cerdá include the following papers:

  • "Association of Racial/Ethnic Segregation With Treatment Capacity for Opioid Use Disorder in Counties in the United States," 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • "Has the treatment gap for opioid use disorder narrowed in the U.S.?: A yearly assessment from 2010 to 2019," 2022, International Journal of Drug Policy
  • "What is the prevalence of and trend in opioid use disorder in the United States from 2010 to 2019? Using multiplier approaches to estimate prevalence for an unknown population size," 2022, Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
  • "The HEALing (Helping to End Addiction Long-term SM) Communities Study: Protocol for a cluster randomized trial at the community level to reduce opioid overdose deaths through implementation of an integrated set of evidence-based practices," 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • "Who stays in medication treatment for opioid use disorder? A national study of outpatient specialty treatment settings," 2021, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Magdalena Cerdá collaborates frequently with other researchers. Notable coauthors in their work include:

  • Katherine M. Keyes
  • Sílvia S. Martins
  • Deborah S. Hasin
  • Mark Olfson
  • Brandon D. L. Marshall

Best Publications

  • Medical marijuana laws in 50 states: investigating the relationship between state legalization of medical marijuana and marijuana use, abuse and dependence.

    Magdalena Cerdá;Melanie Wall;Katherine M. Keyes;Sandro Galea

  • Understanding the Rural–Urban Differences in Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use and Abuse in the United States

    Katherine M. Keyes;Magdalena Cerdá;Joanne E. Brady;Jennifer R. Havens

  • Association Between Recreational Marijuana Legalization in the United States and Changes in Marijuana Use and Cannabis Use Disorder From 2008 to 2016

    Magdalena Cerdá;Magdalena Cerdá;Christine Mauro;Ava Hamilton;Natalie S. Levy

  • Association of State Recreational Marijuana Laws With Adolescent Marijuana Use

    Magdalena Cerdá;Melanie Wall;Tianshu Feng;Katherine M. Keyes

  • US Adult Illicit Cannabis Use, Cannabis Use Disorder, and Medical Marijuana Laws: 1991-1992 to 2012-2013

    Deborah S. Hasin;Aaron L. Sarvet;Magdalena Cerdá;Katherine M. Keyes

  • Psychiatric comorbidities in alcohol use disorder

    Alvaro Castillo-Carniglia;Alvaro Castillo-Carniglia;Katherine M Keyes;Deborah S Hasin;Magdalena Cerdá

  • Worldwide Prevalence and Trends in Unintentional Drug Overdose: A Systematic Review of the Literature

    Silvia S. Martins;Laura Sampson;Magdalena Cerdá;Sandro Galea

  • Agent-Based Modeling in Public Health: Current Applications and Future Directions.

    Melissa Tracy;Magdalena Cerdá;Katherine M. Keyes

  • Medical marijuana laws and adolescent marijuana use in the USA from 1991 to 2014: results from annual, repeated cross-sectional surveys

    Deborah S. Hasin;Deborah S. Hasin;Melanie Wall;Melanie Wall;Katherine M. Keyes;Magdalena Cerdá

  • Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Predict Onset of Cardiovascular Events in Women

    Jennifer A. Sumner;Laura D. Kubzansky;Mitchell S.V. Elkind;Andrea L. Roberts

  • Adolescent marijuana use from 2002 to 2008: higher in states with medical marijuana laws, cause still unclear.

    Melanie M. Wall;Ernest Poh;Magdalena Cerdá;Katherine M. Keyes

  • Association of Racial/Ethnic Segregation With Treatment Capacity for Opioid Use Disorder in Counties in the United States.

    William C. Goedel;Aaron Shapiro;Magdalena Cerdá;Jennifer W. Tsai

  • What Do We Know About the Association Between Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Injuries?

    Julian Santaella-Tenorio;Magdalena Cerdá;Andrés Villaveces;Sandro Galea

  • Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use in Childhood and Early Adolescence Predicts Transitions to Heroin Use in Young Adulthood: A National Study

    Magdalena Cerdá;Magdalena Cerdá;Julián Santaella;Brandon D.L. Marshall;June H. Kim

  • Neighborhood Characteristics and Disability in Older Adults

    John R. Beard;John R. Beard;John R. Beard;Shannon Blaney;Magdalena Cerdá;Magdalena Cerdá;Victoria Frye

  • Association of Pharmaceutical Industry Marketing of Opioid Products With Mortality From Opioid-Related Overdoses.

    Scott E. Hadland;Scott E. Hadland;Ariadne Rivera-Aguirre;Ariadne Rivera-Aguirre;Brandon D. L. Marshall;Magdalena Cerdá;Magdalena Cerdá

  • Effects of Neighborhood Resources on Aggressive and Delinquent Behaviors Among Urban Youths

    Beth E. Molnar;Magdalena Cerda;Andrea L. Roberts;Stephen L. Buka

  • State-level medical marijuana laws, marijuana use and perceived availability of marijuana among the general U.S. population

    Silvia S. Martins;Christine M. Mauro;Julian Santaella-Tenorio;June H. Kim

  • Association Between Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Nonfatal and Fatal Drug Overdoses: A Systematic Review

    David S. Fink;Julia P. Schleimer;Aaron Sarvet;Kiran K. Grover

  • Reducing Violence by Transforming Neighborhoods: A Natural Experiment in Medellín, Colombia

    Magdalena Cerdá;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Ben B. Hansen;Kimberly J. Tessari Hicks

  • UnderstandingtheRural-UrbanDifferencesinNonmedical PrescriptionOpioidUseandAbuseintheUnitedStates

    Katherine M. Keyes;Magdalena Cerdá;Joanne E. Brady;Jennifer R. Havens

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvia S. Martins
Silvia S. Martins Columbia University
Deborah S. Hasin
Deborah S. Hasin Columbia University
Garen J. Wintemute
Garen J. Wintemute University of California, Davis
Brandon D. L. Marshall
Brandon D. L. Marshall Brown University
Melanie M. Wall
Melanie M. Wall Columbia University
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Danielle C. Ompad
Danielle C. Ompad New York University
Beryl A. Koblin
Beryl A. Koblin New York Blood Center
Heino Falcke
Heino Falcke Radboud University
Markus Roth
Markus Roth Technical University of Darmstadt

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