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41378
World Ranking
10720
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5512

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1977 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1963 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1936 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Wilson M. Compton is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with extensive work in public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, epidemiology, pharmacology, and clinical psychology. The scientist's main topics include smoking behavior and cessation, opioid use disorder treatment, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, obesity, physical activity, diet, cannabis and cannabinoid research, prenatal substance exposure effects, and behavioral health and interventions.

Compton's recent papers include the following:

  • Methamphetamine Use, Methamphetamine Use Disorder, and Associated Overdose Deaths Among US Adults, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Polysubstance use in the U.S. opioid crisis, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Patterns and Characteristics of Methamphetamine Use Among Adults - United States, 2015-2018, 2020, MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • Use of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder Among Adults With Past-Year Opioid Use Disorder in the US, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Methamphetamine use in the United States: epidemiological update and implications for prevention, treatment, and harm reduction, 2021, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors include Heather L. Kimmel, Beth Han, Andrew Hyland, Christopher M. Jones, and Carlos Blanco.

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • JAMA Network Open
  • JAMA Psychiatry
  • Nicotine & Tobacco Research
  • Tobacco Control
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Wilson M. Compton has also contributed to academic literature as shown by their book contributions. They have a publication with Cambridge University Press titled "The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions," published in 2020.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) across several years: 1936, 1963, and 1977.

Best Publications

  • Prevalence and Co-Occurrence of Substance Use Disorders and Independent Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions

    Bridget F. Grant;Frederick S. Stinson;Deborah A. Dawson;S. Patricia Chou

  • Adverse Health Effects of Marijuana Use

    Nora D. Volkow;Ruben D. Baler;Wilson M. Compton

  • DSM-5 Criteria for Substance Use Disorders: Recommendations and Rationale

    Deborah S. Hasin;Charles P. O’Brien;Marc Auriacombe;Guilherme Borges

  • Relationship between Nonmedical Prescription-Opioid Use and Heroin Use

    Wilson M. Compton;Christopher M. Jones;Grant T. Baldwin

  • Lifetime comorbidity of DSM-IV mood and anxiety disorders and specific drug use disorders: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.

    Kevin P. Conway;Wilson Compton;Frederick S. Stinson;Bridget F. Grant

  • Major increases in opioid analgesic abuse in the United States: concerns and strategies.

    Wilson M. Compton;Nora D. Volkow

  • Prescription Opioid Use, Misuse, and Use Disorders in U.S. Adults: 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health

    Beth Han;Wilson M Compton;Carlos Blanco;Elizabeth Crane

  • Design and methods of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study.

    Andrew Hyland;Bridget K. Ambrose;Kevin P. Conway;Nicolette Borek

  • Screening, brief interventions, referral to treatment (SBIRT) for illicit drug and alcohol use at multiple healthcare sites: Comparison at intake and 6 months later

    Bertha K. Madras;Wilson M. Compton;Deepa Avula;Tom Stegbauer

  • Sociodemographic and psychopathologic predictors of first incidence of DSM-IV substance use, mood and anxiety disorders: results from the Wave 2 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions

    B F Grant;R B Goldstein;S P Chou;B Huang

  • Prevalence of Marijuana Use Disorders in the United States: 1991-1992 and 2001-2002

    Wilson M. Compton;Bridget F. Grant;James D. Colliver;Meyer D. Glantz

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder among substance users from the general population

    Linda B. Cottler;Wilson M. Compton;Douglas Mager;Edward L. Spitznagel

  • Abuse of prescription drugs and the risk of addiction.

    Wilson M. Compton;Nora D. Volkow

  • Tobacco-Product Use by Adults and Youths in the United States in 2013 and 2014

    Karin A. Kasza;Bridget K. Ambrose;Kevin P. Conway;Nicolette Borek

  • Changes in the Prevalence of Major Depression and Comorbid Substance Use Disorders in the United States Between 1991-1992 and 2001-2002

    M.P.E. Wilson M. Compton;Kevin P. Conway;Frederick S. Stinson;Bridget F. Grant

  • Prevalence, Correlates, and Comorbidity of DSM-IV Antisocial Personality Syndromes and Alcohol and Specific Drug Use Disorders in the United States: Results From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions

    Wilson M Compton;Kevin P Conway;Frederick S Stinson;James D Colliver

  • The Role of Psychiatric Disorders in Predicting Drug Dependence Treatment Outcomes

    Wilson M. Compton;Linda B. Cottler;Jacqueline L. Jacobs;Arbi Ben-Abdallah

  • Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use and Use Disorders Among Adults Aged 18 Through 64 Years in the United States, 2003-2013

    Beth Han;Wilson M. Compton;Christopher M. Jones;Rong Cai

  • Changes in Synthetic Opioid Involvement in Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2010-2016.

    Christopher M. Jones;Emily B. Einstein;Wilson M. Compton

  • WHO Study on the reliability and validity of the alcohol and drug use disorder instruments: overview of methods and results

    B Üstün;W Compton;D Mager;T Babor

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda B. Cottler
Linda B. Cottler University of Florida
Bridget F. Grant
Bridget F. Grant National Institutes of Health
Kevin P. Conway
Kevin P. Conway National Institute on Drug Abuse
Cassandra A. Stanton
Cassandra A. Stanton Westat (United States)
Edward L. Spitznagel
Edward L. Spitznagel Washington University in St. Louis
Andrew Hyland
Andrew Hyland Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow National Institutes of Health
K. Michael Cummings
K. Michael Cummings Medical University of South Carolina
Raymond Niaura
Raymond Niaura New York University
David B. Abrams
David B. Abrams New York University

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