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Legend: = Applied Session, = Theme Session, = Presenter
Colorado Convention Center = “CC”, Hyatt = “HY”

233 Tue, 8/5/08, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-705
Issues in Substance Abuse and Mental Health Research - Contributed - Papers
Section on Health Policy Statistics
Chair(s): Eloise Kaizar, The Ohio State University
    8:35 AM   Using a Yardstick Approach To Enrich Understanding of Treatment Effect on Urge To Smoke: An Application to a Smoking Cessation TrialJoseph C. Cappelleri, Pfizer, Inc.; Andrew G. Bushmakin, Pfizer, Inc.; Riad Dirani, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D, LLC
    8:50 AM   Alcohol Outlet Density and Alcohol Consumption in Los Angeles County and Southern LouisianaMatthias Schonlau, RAND Corporation; Deborah Cohen, RAND Corporation; Richard Scribner, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center; Thomas A. Farley, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine; Katherine Theall, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center; Ricky N. Bluthenthal, California State University; Molly Scott, RAND Corporation
    9:05 AM   Health Consequences of Alcohol Abuse: An Ecological ModelYasmin H. Said, George Mason University
    9:20 AM   An EM Algorithm for Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Regression Based on a Poisson Mixture RepresentationChih-Nan Chen, Cambridge Health Alliance; Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
    9:35 AM   Utilizing Stakeholders To Inform Mental Health Treatment PracticesChristopher J. McKinney, Mental Health Center of Denver; Kathryn DeRoche, Mental Health Center of Denver; Antonio Olmos, Mental Health Center of Denver; Mike Hester, Mental Health Center of Denver; Donald Sammons, Mental Health Center of Denver
    9:50 AM   Risk Factors Associated with Injection Initiation Among Drug Users: Comparing Hierarchical Modeling with Traditional Logistic RegressionShahid Kamal, University of the Punjab; Muhammad A. Raza, GC University; Rehan A. Khan, PU
     10:05 AM   Floor Discussion
 

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