Survey epidemiology of substance abuse; relationship between substance abuse and criminal offending; survey epidemiology of pathological gambling.

Initiation and Continuation of Drinking and Driving Behavior (funded by NIAAA). Developing models of the initiation of drinking-driving behavior, long-term prospective models of continued drinking-driver behavior, and an examination of the impact of various geospatial methods of aggregating point data (e.g., alcohol outlets) into geographic units for use in multilevel and individual models of drinking and driving. (Award made to William Wieczorek, Ph.D., Buffalo State College, in collaboration with Co-investigators John W. Welte, Ph.D., RIA; Thomas Nochajski, Ph.D., UB’s Department of Social Work; Kelly Marczynski, Ph.D., Buffalo State College; and Dr. David Wong, George Mason University.)

Gambling and Substance Use Among Youth in the U.S. (funded by NIMH). Examining the prevalence of pathological gambling among U.S. youth, youth gambling and gambling opportunities, and other problem behaviors (in collaboration with Grace M. Barnes, Ph.D.).

Co-occurrence of Gambling and Substance Use in the U.S. (funded by NIAAA). Nationwide study of adults and gambling including a geographic analysis of census data and distances from participants' home to gambling facilities (in collaboration with RIA's Grace M. Barnes, Ph.D. and William F. Wieczorek, Ph.D. of Buffalo State College's Center for Health and Social Research).

Drinking and Delinquency in Young Men (funded by NIAAA). This project was a three-wave panel study of the relationship between substance abuse and criminal offending (in collaboration with RIA's Grace M. Barnes, Ph.D., William F. Wieczorek, Ph.D. of Buffalo State College’s Center for Health and Social Research, Lening Zhang, Ph.D. of St. Francis College).