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  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Stephen T. Higgins is affiliated with the University of Vermont in the United States. Their research contributions focus primarily within the field of medicine, with significant work in related subfields such as physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, applied psychology, epidemiology, and health, toxicology and mutagenesis.

Their main research topics encompass smoking behavior and cessation, behavioral health and interventions, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, obesity, physical activity and diet, air quality and health impacts, opioid use disorder treatment, and prenatal substance exposure effects.

Frequent publication venues for Higgins include Preventive Medicine, where they have contributed to 40 publications, followed by Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology with 10, Drug and Alcohol Dependence with 9, JAMA Network Open with 5, and Nicotine & Tobacco Research also with 5 publications.

Higgins has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Michael DeSarno (31 collaborations), Sarah H. Heil (23), Elias M. Klemperer (17), Diann E. Gaalema (17), and Stacey C. Sigmon (16).

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Higgins include:

  • Changes in Cigarette Consumption With Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes Among Smokers With Psychiatric Conditions or Socioeconomic Disadvantage, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Contingency Management for Patients Receiving Medication for Opioid Use Disorder, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Smoking-Cessation Interventions for U.S. Young Adults: Updated Systematic Review, 2020, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Behavioral economic measurement of cigarette demand: A descriptive review of published approaches to the cigarette purchase task, 2020, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
  • Smoking Cessation Prevalence and Inequalities in the United States: 2014-2019, 2021, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

In 2012, Higgins was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of voucher-based reinforcement therapy for substance use disorders

    Jennifer Plebani Lussier;Sarah H. Heil;Joan A. Mongeon;Gary J. Badger

  • Incentives Improve Outcome in Outpatient Behavioral Treatment of Cocaine Dependence

    Stephen T. Higgins;Alan J. Budney;Warren K. Bickel;Florian E. Foerg

  • A behavioral approach to achieving initial cocaine abstinence.

    Stephen T. Higgins;Dawn D. Delaney;Alan J. Budney;Warren K. Bickel

  • Achieving cocaine abstinence with a behavioral approach.

    Stephen T. Higgins;Alan J. Budney;Warren K. Bickel;John R. Hughes

  • Sustained Cocaine Abstinence in Methadone Maintenance Patients Through Voucher-Based Reinforcement Therapy

    Kenneth Silverman;Stephen T. Higgins;Robert K. Brooner;Ivan D. Montoya;Ivan D. Montoya

  • Contingent reinforcement increases cocaine abstinence during outpatient treatment and 1 year of follow-up.

    Stephen T. Higgins;Conrad J. Wong;Gary J. Badger;Doris E. Haug Ogden

  • Adding voucher-based incentives to coping skills and motivational enhancement improves outcomes during treatment for marijuana dependence.

    Alan J. Budney;Stephen T. Higgins;Krestin J. Radonovich;Pamela L. Novy

  • Nicotine withdrawal versus other drug withdrawal syndromes: similarities and dissimilarities

    John R. Hughes;Stephen T. Higgins;Warren K. Bickel

  • Effects of Abstinence from Tobacco

    John R. Hughes;Stephen T. Higgins;Dorothy Hatsukami

  • Clinical Implications of Reinforcement as a Determinant of Substance Use Disorders

    Stephen T Higgins;Sarah H Heil;Jennifer Plebani Lussier

  • Delay discounting predicts postpartum relapse to cigarette smoking among pregnant women.

    Jin Ho Yoon;Stephen T. Higgins;Sarah H. Heil;Rena J. Sugarbaker

  • Delay discounting in currently using and currently abstinent cocaine-dependent outpatients and non-drug-using matched controls.

    Sarah H. Heil;Matthew W. Johnson;Stephen T. Higgins;Warren K. Bickel

  • Clinical trial of abstinence-based vouchers and cognitive-behavioral therapy for cannabis dependence.

    Alan J. Budney;Brent A. Moore;Heath L. Rocha;Stephen T. Higgins

  • Contingency management in substance abuse treatment.

    Stephen T. Higgins;Kenneth Silverman;Sarah H. Heil

  • The validity of the reinstatement model of craving and relapse to drug use.

    Jonathan L. Katz;Stephen T. Higgins

  • Behavioral economics of drug self-administration. I. Functional equivalence of response requirement and drug dose

    Warren K. Bickel;R.J. DeGrandpre;Stephen T. Higgins;John R. Hughes

  • Maternal smoking and its association with birth weight.

    Ira M. Bernstein;Joan A. Mongeon;Gary J. Badger;Laura Solomon

  • Effects of adding behavioral treatment to opioid detoxification with buprenorphine.

    Warren K. Bickel;Leslie Amass;Stephen T. Higgins;Gary J. Badger

  • Motivating behavior change among illicit-drug abusers: Research on contingency management interventions.

    Stephen T. Higgins;Kenneth Silverman

  • Community reinforcement therapy for cocaine-dependent outpatients.

    Stephen T. Higgins;Stacey C. Sigmon;Conrad J. Wong;Sarah H. Heil

  • Behavioral economics: a novel experimental approach to the study of drug dependence.

    Warren K. Bickel;Richard J. DeGrandpre;Stephen T. Higgins

Frequent Co-Authors

Warren K. Bickel
Warren K. Bickel Virginia Tech
John R. Hughes
John R. Hughes University of Vermont
Gary J. Badger
Gary J. Badger University of Vermont
Jennifer W. Tidey
Jennifer W. Tidey Brown University
Maxine L. Stitzer
Maxine L. Stitzer Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Cassandra A. Stanton
Cassandra A. Stanton Westat (United States)
Philip A. Ades
Philip A. Ades University of Vermont
Andrea C. Villanti
Andrea C. Villanti Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Craig R. Rush
Craig R. Rush University of Kentucky
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University

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