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Roger A. Roffman is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular attention to epidemiology, pharmacology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, health, and social psychology. These fields underscore a concentration on both the biological and social aspects of substance use and its related health outcomes.

The scientist's work often centers on topics such as substance abuse treatment and outcomes, cannabis and cannabinoid research, prenatal substance exposure effects, intimate partner and family violence, attachment and relationship dynamics, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. These areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach toward understanding and addressing the complexities of substance use and its influence on various populations.

Roger A. Roffman has published several papers, including:

  • Treating cannabis use disorder: Exploring a treatment as needed model with 34-month follow-up (2020) in Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • What's In It for Me? Motivating the Untreated Abuser to Consider Treatment (2022) in Journal of Family Violence
  • Reaching nontreatment-seeking cannabis users: Testing an extended marijuana check-up intervention (2020) in Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Frequent co-authors in their research include Robert S. Stephens, Robrina Walker, Denise D. Walker, Josephine M. DeMarce, and Brian E. Lozano. Collaborations with these researchers have supported investigations predominantly situated within substance abuse treatment and related social dynamics.

The primary publication venues for their research have been the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment and the Journal of Family Violence. These journals align with the scientist's focus on both clinical treatment approaches and the wider social context of substance use disorders.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive functioning of long-term heavy cannabis users seeking treatment.

    Nadia Solowij;Robert S Stephens;Roger A Roffman;Thomas Babor

  • Comparison of extended versus brief treatments for marijuana use.

    Robert S. Stephens;Roger A. Roffman;Lisa Curtin

  • Pathways from Heroin Addiction: Recovery Without Treatment

    Roger A. Roffman;Patrick Biernacki

  • Randomised, controlled, community-level HIV-prevention intervention for sexual-risk behaviour among homosexual men in US cities

    Jeffrey A Kelly;Debra A Murphy;Kathleen J Sikkema;Timothy L McAuliffe

  • A randomized controlled trial of brief cognitive-behavioral interventions for cannabis use disorder.

    Jan Copeland;Wendy Swift;Roger Roffman;Robert Stephens

  • Treating adult marijuana dependence: a test of the relapse prevention model.

    Robert S. Stephens;Roger A. Roffman;Edith E. Simpson

  • Outcomes of a randomized community-level HIV prevention intervention for women living in 18 low-income housing developments.

    Kathleen J. Sikkema;Jeffrey A. Kelly;Richard A. Winett;Laura J. Solomon

  • Adult marijuana users seeking treatment.

    Robert S. Stephens;Roger A. Roffman;Edith E. Simpson

  • HIV risk behaviors among women living in low-income, inner-city housing developments.

    K J Sikkema;T G Heckman;J A Kelly;E S Anderson

  • Motivational enhancement therapy for adolescent marijuana users: a preliminary randomized controlled trial.

    Denise D. Walker;Roger A. Roffman;Robert S. Stephens;Kim Wakana

  • Information-motivation-behavioral skills (IMB) model: Testing direct and mediated treatment effects on condom use among women in low-income housing

    Eileen S. Anderson;David A. Wagstaff;Timothy G. Heckman;Richard A. Winett

  • Internet-based intervention for mental health and substance use problems in disaster-affected populations: a pilot feasibility study.

    Kenneth J. Ruggiero;Heidi S. Resnick;Ron Acierno;Scott F. Coffey

  • Motivation to reduce HIV risk behaviors in the context of the Information, Motivation and Behavioral Skills (IMB) model of HIV prevention.

    Seth C. Kalichman;Joseph F. Picciano;Roger A. Roffman

  • Self-efficacy and marijuana cessation: a construct validity analysis.

    Robert S. Stephens;Jennifer S. Wertz;Roger A. Roffman

  • Abstinence and moderate use goals in the treatment of marijuana dependence.

    Brian E. Lozano;Robert S. Stephens;Roger A. Roffman

  • Randomized controlled trial of motivational enhancement therapy with nontreatment-seeking adolescent cannabis users: a further test of the teen marijuana check-up.

    Denise D. Walker;Robert Stephens;Roger Roffman;Josephine DeMarce

  • Motives for cannabis use in high-risk adolescent users

    Courtney L. Fox;Sheri L. Towe;Robert S. Stephens;Denise D. Walker

  • Factors Predicting Continued High-Risk Behavior among Gay Men in Small Cities: Psychological, Behavioral, and Demographic Characteristics Related to Unsafe Sex.

    Kelly Ja;Sikkema Kj;Winett Ra;Solomon Lj

  • The Marijuana Check-up: promoting change in ambivalent marijuana users.

    Robert S. Stephens;Roger A. Roffman;Stephanie A. Fearer;Carl Williams

  • Normative Misperceptions of Abuse Among Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence

    Clayton Neighbors;Denise D. Walker;Lyungai F. Mbilinyi;Allison O'Rourke

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert S. Stephens
Robert S. Stephens Virginia Tech
Jeffrey A. Kelly
Jeffrey A. Kelly Medical College of Wisconsin
Kathleen J. Sikkema
Kathleen J. Sikkema Columbia University
Clayton Neighbors
Clayton Neighbors University of Houston
Richard A. Winett
Richard A. Winett Virginia Tech
Seth C. Kalichman
Seth C. Kalichman University of Connecticut
Timothy G. Heckman
Timothy G. Heckman University of Georgia
Jeffrey L. Edleson
Jeffrey L. Edleson University of California, Berkeley
Ronald M. Kadden
Ronald M. Kadden University of Connecticut Health Center
Kathleen M. Carroll
Kathleen M. Carroll Yale University

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