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Tammy Chung is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with significant contributions to subfields such as General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Pharmacology.

Their main topics of work include Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Homelessness and Social Issues, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Digital Mental Health Interventions, and Smoking Behavior and Cessation.

Chung has published extensively in several frequent venues, including Addictive Behaviors, Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research, Addiction, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, and the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Chung are the following:

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action. (2020) published in American Psychologist
  • Public and private religious involvement and initiation of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use in Black and White adolescent girls (2020) published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Adolescent development of inhibitory control and substance use vulnerability: A longitudinal neuroimaging study (2020) published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • In-Person Contacts and Their Relationship With Alcohol Consumption Among Young Adults With Hazardous Drinking During a Pandemic (2020) published in Journal of Adolescent Health
  • A systematic review of factors associated with student use of campus food pantries: implications for addressing barriers and facilitating use (2024) published in BMC Public Health

Chung collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Carolyn E. Sartor, Brian Suffoletto, Alison E. Hipwell, Trishnee Bhurosy, and Shawn J. Latendresse.

Best Publications

  • A Developmental Perspective on Alcohol and Youths 16 to 20 Years of Age

    Sandra A. Brown;Matthew McGue;Jennifer Maggs;John Schulenberg

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.

    June Gruber;Mitchell J. Prinstein;Lee Anna Clark;Jonathan Rottenberg

  • Screening adolescents for problem drinking: performance of brief screens against DSM-IV alcohol diagnoses.

    Tammy Chung;Suzanne M. Colby;Nancy P. Barnett;Damaris J. Rohsenow

  • The National Consortium on Alcohol and NeuroDevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA): a multisite study of adolescent development and substance use

    Sandra A. Brown;Ty Brumback;Kristin Tomlinson;Kevin Cummins

  • An application of item response theory analysis to alcohol, cannabis, and cocaine criteria in DSM-IV

    James W. Langenbucher;Erich Labouvie;Christopher S. Martin;Pilar M. Sanjuan

  • The Pittsburgh Girls Study: Overview and Initial Findings

    Kate Keenan;Alison Hipwell;Tammy Chung;Stephanie Stepp

  • Presence of muscle dysmorphia symptomology among male weightlifters.

    Tom Hildebrandt;David Schlundt;James Langenbucher;Tammy Chung

  • Changes in alcoholic patients' coping responses predict 12-month treatment outcomes.

    Tammy Chung;James Langenbucher;Erich Labouvie;Robert J. Pandina

  • How should we revise diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders in the DSM-V?

    Christopher S. Martin;Tammy Chung;James W. Langenbucher

  • A Text Message Alcohol Intervention for Young Adult Emergency Department Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Brian Suffoletto;Jeffrey Kristan;Clifton Callaway;Kevin H. Kim

  • Item response theory analysis of diagnostic criteria for alcohol and cannabis use disorders in adolescents: implications for DSM-V.

    Christopher S. Martin;Tammy Chung;Levent Kirisci;James W. Langenbucher

  • Alcohol use disorders identification test: factor structure in an adolescent emergency department sample.

    Tammy Chung;Suzanne M. Colby;Nancy P. Barnett;Peter M. Monti

  • Adolescent Development of Cortical and White Matter Structure in the NCANDA Sample: Role of Sex, Ethnicity, Puberty, and Alcohol Drinking

    Adolf Pfefferbaum;Torsten Rohlfing;Kilian M. Pohl;Barton Lane

  • Relapse to alcohol and other drug use in treated adolescents: Review and reconsideration of relapse as a change point in clinical course

    Tammy Chung;Stephen A. Maisto;Stephen A. Maisto

  • Mobile phone sensors and supervised machine learning to identify alcohol use events in young adults: Implications for just-in-time adaptive interventions.

    Sangwon Bae;Tammy Chung;Denzil Ferreira;Anind K. Dey

  • Adolescent Binge Drinking.

    Tammy Chung;Kasey G Creswell;Rachel Bachrach;Duncan B Clark

  • Alcohol Screening in Young Persons Attending a Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic: Comparison of AUDIT, CRAFFT, and CAGE Instruments

    Robert L. Cook;Tammy Chung;Thomas M. Kelly;Duncan B. Clark

  • Brief screens for detecting alcohol use disorder among 18-20 year old young adults in emergency departments: Comparing AUDIT-C, CRAFFT, RAPS4-QF, FAST, RUFT-Cut, and DSM-IV 2-Item Scale.

    Thomas M. Kelly;John E. Donovan;Tammy Chung;Oscar G. Bukstein

  • An Interactive Text Message Intervention to Reduce Binge Drinking in Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial with 9-Month Outcomes

    Brian Suffoletto;Jeffrey Kristan;Tammy Chung;Kwonho Jeong

  • Cannabis withdrawal is common among treatment-seeking adolescents with cannabis dependence and major depression, and is associated with rapid relapse to dependence

    Jack R. Cornelius;Tammy Chung;Christopher Martin;D. Scott Wood

  • What were they thinking? Adolescents' interpretations of DSM-IV alcohol dependence symptom queries and implications for diagnostic validity.

    Tammy Chung;Christopher S. Martin

  • Onset and staging of DSM-IV alcohol dependence using mean age and survival-hazard methods.

    James W. Langenbucher;Tammy Chung

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher S. Martin
Christopher S. Martin University of Pittsburgh
Alison E. Hipwell
Alison E. Hipwell University of Pittsburgh
Jack R. Cornelius
Jack R. Cornelius University of Pittsburgh
Stephen A. Maisto
Stephen A. Maisto Syracuse University
Stephanie D. Stepp
Stephanie D. Stepp University of Pittsburgh
Susan F. Tapert
Susan F. Tapert University of California, San Diego
Carolyn E. Sartor
Carolyn E. Sartor Yale University
Rolf Loeber
Rolf Loeber University of Pittsburgh
Ken C. Winters
Ken C. Winters Oregon Research Institute
Helene R. White
Helene R. White Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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