Dara Charney, MD

Research Focus: 

Research is aimed at improving treatment for alcohol use disorders, to determine clinical and biological predictors of treatment outcome, and to hasten the development of empirically-based clinical guuidelines regarding alcoholic patients (including those with concurrent psychiatric illness).Addiction, alcoholism, substance dependence, treatment outcome, dual diagnosis, concurrent depression and anxiety

Keywords: 
Addiction, alcoholism, substance dependence, treatment outcome, dual diagnosis, concurrent depression and anxiety
Location: 
Research and Training Building
Publications:
Charney DA, Palacios-Boix J, Gill KJ. Sexual abuse and the outcome of addiction treatment. American Journal on Addictions 16: 93-100; 2007.
Charney DA, Palacios-Boix J, Negrete JC, Dobkin PL, Gill KJ. Association between concurrent depression and anxiety and six-month outcome of addiction treatment. Psychiatric Services 56: 927-933; 2005.
Charney DA, Paraherakis AM, Gill KJ. Integrated treatment of comorbid depression and substance use disorders. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2001; 62: 672-677.