Publications

  1. Young AM, Rudolph AE, Havens JR. (2018) Network-based Research on Rural Opioid Use: An Overview of Methods and Lessons Learned. Invited contribution to Special Issue in Current HIV/AIDS Reports. Published online first February 22, 2018: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11904-018-0391-2. DOI: 10.1007/s11904-018-0391-2
  2. Algarin AB, Ward PJ, Christian WJ, Rudolph AE, Holloway IW, Young AM. (2018) Spatial distribution of partner-seeking men who have sex with men (MSM) using geosocial networking applications: An epidemiologic study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 20(5):e173. doi:10.2196/jmir.9919
  3. Barber D, Casquejo E, Ybanez P, Pinote M, Casquejo L, Pinote L, Estorgio D, Young AM. (2017) Prevalence and Correlates of Antibiotic Sharing in the Philippines: Antibiotic Misconceptions and Community-Level Access to Nonmedical Sources of Antibiotics. Tropical Medicine and International Health 22(5):567-575. DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12854
  4. Rudolph AE, Young AM, Havens JR. (2017) Examining the social context of injection drug use: social proximity vs. geographic proximity to others who inject drugs. American Journal of Epidemiology. Published online May 23, 2017. org/10.1093/aje/kwx162
  5. Rudolph AE, Young AM, Havens JR (2017) A rural/urban comparison of privacy and confidentiality concerns associated with providing sensitive location information in epidemiologic research involving persons who use drugs. Addictive Behaviors 74:106-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.06.006
  6. Hofmeister MG, Havens JR, Young AM. (2017) Silence surrounding hepatitis C status in risk relationships among rural people who use drugs. Journal of Primary Prevention 38(5): 481-494. DOI 10.1007/s10935-017-0483-6.
  7. Stephens DB, Young AM, Havens JR. (2017) Healthcare contact and treatment uptake following hepatitis C virus screening and counseling among rural Appalachian people who use drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy 47: 86-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.05.045
  8. Vickers Smith, R., Boland, E.M., Young, A.M., Lofwall, M.R., Quiroz, A., Staton, M., Havens, J.R. (2017) A Qualitative Analysis of Gabapentin Misuse and Diversion Among People who Use Drugs in Appalachian Kentucky. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. doi: 10.1037/adb0000337 [Epub ahead of print]
  9. Young AM, Rudolph AE, Su AE, King L, Jent S, Havens JR. (2016) Accuracy of name and age data provided about network members in a social network study of people who use drugs: Implications for constructing sociometric networks. Annals of Epidemiology 26(11): 802-809. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.09.010.
  10. Mark KP, Smith RV, Young AM, Crosby R. (2016) Comparing Three-month Recall to Daily Reporting of Sexual Behaviours. Sexually Transmitted Infections. Published online first: September 27, 2016. doi:10.1136/sextrans-2016-052556
  11. Hofmeister M, Dao A, Young AM. (2016) Worsening stroke symptoms in an 80 year old man. JAMA Neurology. 73(8): 1017-1018. Published online June 06, 2016. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.0421
  12. Smith RV, Young AM, Mullins UL, Havens JR. (2016) Individual and network correlates of antisocial personality disorder among rural nonmedical prescription opioid users. Journal of Rural Health. Epub ahead of print: May 12, 2016. DOI: 10.1111/jrh.12184
  13. Stephens DB, Young AM, Mullins UL, Havens JR. (2016) Correlates to seroprevalent herpes simplex virus type 2 among rural Appalachian drug users. Journal of Medical Virology 88(3):512-520. DOI: 10.1002/ jmv.24358
  14. Young AM, Elliston A, Ruble LA. (2015) Attitudes toward childhood vaccination among parents of children with autism. International Public Health Journal 7(3):331-341.
  15. Young AM, Halgin DS, Havens JR. (2015) Relationship-level analysis of drug users’ anticipated changes in risk behavior following HIV vaccination. AIDS Care 27(8): 1000-1004. DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2015.1017443
  16. Rudolph AE, Young AM, Fuller C. (2015) Assessing the geographic coverage and spatial clustering of illicit drug users recruited through respondent-driven sampling in New York City. Journal of Urban Health 92(2): 352-378. DOI: 10.1007/s11524-015-9937-4
  17. Young AM, Stephens DB, Khaleel H, Havens JR. (2015) Hepatitis C vaccine clinical trials among people who use drugs: potential for participation and involvement in recruitment. Contemporary Clinical Trials 41: 9-16. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2014.12.015. NIHMSID: 652231.
  18. Young AM, Halgin DS, DiClemente RJ, Sterk CE, Havens JR. Will HIV vaccination reshape HIV risk behavior networks? A social network analysis of drug users’ anticipated risk compensation. PLOS ONE 2014, 9(7): e101047. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101047.
  19. Young AM, DiClemente RJ, Halgin DS, Sterk CE, Havens JR. HIV vaccine acceptability among high-risk drug users in Appalachia: A cross-sectional study. (2014) BMC Public Health 2014, 14:537  doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-537.
  20. Young AM, DiClemente RJ, Halgin DS, Sterk CE, Havens JR. (2014) Drug users’ willingness to encourage social, sexual, and drug network members to receive an HIV vaccine: A social network analysis. AIDS and Behavior 18(9):1753-1763. DOI 10.1007/s10461-014-0797-9. PMID: 24849621
  21. Young AM, Rudolph A, Quillen D, Havens JR. (2014) Spatial, temporal, and relational patterns in respondent driven sampling: evidence from a social network study of rural drug users. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 68:792-798. doi:10.1136/jech-2014-203935
  22. Young AM, Larian N, Havens JR. (2014) Gender Differences in Circumstances Surrounding First Injection Experience of Rural Injection Drug Users in the United States. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 134(1):401-405 (Published Online October 27, 2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2013.10.013
  23. Young AM, Jonas AB, Mullins UL, Halgin DS, Havens JR. (2013) Network structure and the risk for HIV transmission among rural drug users. AIDS and Behavior 17(7):2341-2351. DOI: 10.1007/s10461-012-0371-2
  24. Brown J, Young AM, DiClemente RJ, Sales JM, Rose E, Wingood GM.  Impact of abuse history on adolescent African American women’s current HIV/STD-associated behaviors and psychosocial mediators of HIV/STD risk. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, & Trauma, 23(2):151-167. DOI: 10.1080/10926771.2014.873511.
  25. Crosby RA, Oser CB, Leukefeld, CG, Havens JR, Young AM. (2012) Prevalence of HIV and Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Rural Drug Users: Does Age Matter? Annals of Epidemiology 22(11):778-782. DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2012.07.006
  26. Young AM, Jonas AB, Havens JR. (2013) Social networks and HCV viremia among anti-HCV positive rural drug users. Epidemiology and Infection 141(2):402-411. DOI:10.1017/S0950268812000696.
  27. Vissman AT, Young AM, Wilkin AM, Rhodes SD. (2012) Correlates of HAART adherence among immigrant Latinos in the southeastern United States. AIDS Care [Epub ahead of print July 27, 2012] DOI:10.1080/09540121.2012.701722
  28. Young AM,Crosby R, Oser CB, Leukefeld CG, Stephens DB, Havens JR. (2012) Hepatitis C Viremia and Genotype Distribution among a sample of Nonmedical Prescription Drug Users Exposed to HCV in Rural Appalachia. Journal of Medical Virology 84:1376-1387. DOI 10.1002/jmv.23252
  29. DiClemente RJ and Young, AM. (2012) Commentary: Incentivizing drug-using women’s long-term contraceptive use: some answers, more questions. Addiction 107(6): 1042-1043. DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03783.x.
  30. Young, AM, Glover N, Havens JR. (2012) Nonmedical Use of Prescription Medications among Adolescents in the United States: A Systematic Review. Journal of Adolescent Health 51: 6-17
  31. McGladrey ML, Noar SM, Crosby RA, Young AM, Webb EM, Johnson S. Creating Project CREATE: Lessons learned in developing a web-based resource for public health practitioners. American Journal of Health Education 43(6):341-348.
  32. Jonas AB, Young AM, Oser CB, Leukefeld CG, Havens JR. (2012) OxyContin® as Currency: OxyContin® Use and Increased Social Capital among Rural Appalachian Drug Users. Social Science & Medicine 74:1602-1609. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.12.053
  33. Young AM and Havens JR.(2012) Transition from first illicit drug use to first injection drug use among rural Appalachian drug users: A cross-sectional comparison and retrospective survival analysis. Addiction 107(3): 587-596. DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03635.x
  34. Crosby RC, Ricks J, Young AM. (2012) Condom Migration Resulting From Circumcision, Microbicides, and Vaccines: Brief Review and Methodological Considerations. Sexual Health 9(1): 96-102. DOI: 10.1071/SH11091.
  35. Young AM, Glover N, Havens JR. (2012) Epidemiology of Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use among Rural Adolescents and Implications for Intervention. The Prevention Researcher 19(1): 7-9.
  36. Young AM, Crosby RA, Casquejo E, Pinote L, Casquejo L, Pinote L, Ybanez P, Estorgio D. (2012) Young Men and Women’s Attitudes Toward HPV Vaccination for Future Sons and Daughters: Findings from the Philippines. International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health  5(1)
  37. Young AM, Havens J,Leukefeld C. (2012) A Comparison of Rural and Urban Drug Users’ Lifetime and Recent Drug Use. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 38(3):220-227. DOI: 10.3109/00952990.2011.643971
  38. DiClemente RJ, Young AM, Painter JE, Sales JM, Rose E. (2011) Prevalence and Correlates of Recent Douching among African-American Adolescent Females. Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology 25(1):48-53. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpag.2011.07.017
  39. Crosby RA, DiClemente RJ, Salazar LF, Wingood GM, Sales J, Young AM, Rose E. (2011) Predictors of Consistent Condom Use Among Young African American Women. AIDS & Behavior [Epub ahead of print, July 28]
  40. Young AM, Crosby RA, Jagger K, Casquejo E, Pinote L, Casquejo L, Pinote L, Ybanez P, Estorgio D. (2011) Influences on HPV Vaccine Acceptance among Men in the Philippines. Journal of Men’s Health 8(2): 126-135.
  41. Young AM, Crosby RA, Jagger K, Richardson M, Kloha R, Safarian V. (2010) HPV Vaccine Acceptability among Women in the Philippines. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 11(3):1781-1787. PMID: 21338233 [Full PDF]
  42. Young AM, Havens J,Leukefeld C. (2010) Route of Administration for Illicit Prescription Opioids: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Drug Users. Harm Reduction Journal 7(24). DOI: 10.1186/1477-7517-7-24.
  43. Young AM. (2010)HPV Vaccine Acceptance among Women in the Asian Pacific: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 11(3):421-429. PMID: 21039030 [Full PDF]
  44. Havens JR, Young AM,  Havens, C. (2011)  Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use among a Nationally Representative Sample of Adolescents:  Evidence for Greater Use among Rural Adolescents. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine; 165(3):250-255. DOI :10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.217
  45. Havens JR and Young AM. (2010) Suicidal behavior among users of alcohol and illicit drugs. In Sher L, Vilens A (Eds.) Suicidal Behavior in Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Dependence. New York: Nova Science Publishers. pp 343-363
  46. Moore GR, Crosby RA, Young AM, Charnigo, R. (2010) Low Rates of Free Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Uptake Among Young Women. Sexual Health.7; 287-290. DOI: 10.1071/SH09136
  47. Young AM, Ruble L, and McGrew J. (2009) Public vs. private insurance: Cost, use, accessibility, and outcomes of services for children with autism spectrum disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.3:1023-1033. DOI: 10.1016/j.rasd.2009.06.006
  48. Crosby R, Benitez J, and Young AM. (2008) Correlates of Intent to be Vaccinated Against HPV: An Exploratory Study of Rural and Urban Young Males. Health Education Monograph Series. 25(2): 18-20.