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Overview

Samantha Wells is affiliated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada. Their research spans several disciplines, primarily focusing on social sciences, medicine, and psychology. The subfields of study associated with their work include clinical psychology, general health professions, health, sociology and political science, and epidemiology.

Their research topics cover a wide range of areas including:

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Community Health and Development

Recent significant papers by Samantha Wells include:

  • Individual determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Loneliness in the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations with age, gender and their interaction, 2021, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Changes in alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic and previous pandemics: A systematic review, 2022, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Climate Change, Weather, Housing Precarity, and Homelessness: A Systematic Review of Reviews, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Cannabis Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: A Repeated Cross-sectional Study, 2020, Journal of Addiction Medicine

They frequently publish in these venues:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • BMC Public Health
  • Addiction
  • Social Science & Medicine

Among frequent co-authors are:

  • Tara Elton-Marshall
  • Hayley A. Hamilton
  • Yeshambel T. Nigatu
  • Jürgen Rehm
  • Kevin D. Shield

Best Publications

  • Bad nights or bad bars? Multi-level analysis of environmental predictors of aggression in late-night large-capacity bars and clubs.

    Kathryn Graham;Sharon Bernards;D. Wayne Osgood;Samantha Wells

  • ‘Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight!’ Aggression Among Young Males in Bars—A Question of Values?

    Kathryn Graham;Samantha Wells

  • Policy implications of the widespread practice of 'pre-drinking' or 'pre-gaming' before going to public drinking establishments: are current prevention strategies backfiring?

    Samantha Wells;Samantha Wells;Kathryn Graham;Kathryn Graham;John Purcell;John Purcell

  • Individual determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

    Philip Gerretsen;Philip Gerretsen;Julia Kim;Fernando Caravaggio;Lena Quilty

  • Aggression involving alcohol: relationship to drinking patterns and social context

    Samantha Wells;Kathryn Graham

  • Evaluating theories of alcohol-related aggression using observations of young adults in bars

    Kathryn Graham;Paulette West;Samantha Wells

  • Drinking patterns, drinking contexts and alcohol-related aggression among late adolescent and young adult drinkers.

    Samantha Wells;Kathryn Graham;Kathryn Graham;Mark Speechley;John J. Koval

  • Aggression Among Young Adults in the Social Context of the Bar

    Kathryn Graham;Samantha Wells

  • Changes in alcohol use during the COVID‐19 pandemic and previous pandemics: A systematic review

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  • Alcohol-related aggression in the general population.

    S Wells;K Graham;P West

  • Loneliness in the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations with age, gender and their interaction.

    Christine M. Wickens;André J. McDonald;Tara Elton-Marshall;Samantha Wells

  • To What Extent is Intoxication Associated With Aggression in Bars? A Multilevel Analysis*

    Kathryn Graham;D. Wayne Osgood;Samantha Wells;Tim Stockwell;Tim Stockwell

  • "Blurred lines?" sexual aggression and barroom culture

    Kathryn Graham;Sharon Bernards;D. Wayne Osgood;Antonia Abbey

  • When do first-year college students drink most during the academic year? An internet-based study of daily and weekly drinking

    Paul F. Tremblay;Paul F. Tremblay;Kathryn Graham;Kathryn Graham;Samantha Wells;Samantha Wells;Roma Harris

  • Demographic and substance use factors related to violent and accidental injuries: results from an emergency room study

    Sheila MacDonald;Samantha Wells;Norman Giesbrecht;Cheryl J. Cherpitel

  • Predicting violence among cocaine, cannabis, and alcohol treatment clients.

    Sheila MacDonald;P. Erickson;Samantha Wells;A. Hathaway

  • Drinking before going to licensed premises: an event-level analysis of predrinking, alcohol consumption, and adverse outcomes.

    Florian Labhart;Kathryn Graham;Samantha Wells;Samantha Wells;Samantha Wells;Emmanuel Kuntsche

  • Associations of hair cortisol concentration with self-reported measures of stress and mental health-related factors in a pooled database of diverse community samples

    Samantha Wells;Paul F. Tremblay;Andrea Flynn;Evan Russell

  • Climate Change, Weather, Housing Precarity, and Homelessness: A Systematic Review of Reviews.

    Mariya Bezgrebelna;Kwame McKenzie;Samantha Wells;Arun Ravindran

  • Does the relationship between depression and intimate partner aggression vary by gender, victim-perpetrator role, and aggression severity?

    Kathryn Graham;Sharon Bernards;Andrea M. Flynn;Paul F. Tremblay

  • Occupational Risk Factors Associated with Alcohol and Drug Problems

    S Macdonald;S Wells;T C Wild

  • A framework for applying explanations of alcohol-related aggression to naturally occurring aggressive behavior:

    Kathryn Graham;Samantha Wells;Paulette West

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathryn Graham
Kathryn Graham Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Paul F. Tremblay
Paul F. Tremblay University of Western Ontario
Hayley Hamilton
Hayley Hamilton Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Antonia Abbey
Antonia Abbey Wayne State University
Emmanuel Kuntsche
Emmanuel Kuntsche La Trobe University
James L. Kennedy
James L. Kennedy Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Richard B. Felson
Richard B. Felson Pennsylvania State University
T. Cameron Wild
T. Cameron Wild University of Alberta
Robert C. Gardner
Robert C. Gardner University of Western Ontario
Peter Donnelly
Peter Donnelly University of Oxford

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