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Research Overview
Dr. Gregory Adams just recently completed a study of 673 intravenous drug users (IDUs) in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The focus of this study involved the social epidemiology of high-risk behavior among those self-identified as addicts. The high risk behaviors include variance in use and injection frequencies, repeated needle use, needle sharing, unprotected sex among IDUs and IDU prostitutes. This study in Kiev required special attention to social measurement challenges across cultures, and the effort to overcome these challenges promises to assist in the study of high-risk correlates among North American IDUs and provide means with which to examine non-attribute social correlates in clinical studies.
Education
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2006 (sociology)
M.A., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2002 (sociology)
B.A., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1990 (economics)
Featured Publications
Adams, G.A. Re-considering adult influence on adolescent substance use, American Sociological Annual Meeting, Montreal, August 2006.
Adams G.A., Tessler R.C., The development of ethnic identity among Chinese Adoptees: Paradoxical effects of school diversity. Adoption Quarterly. volume 8, No. 3, November 2005.
Tessler, R., Adams, G., Houlihan, L., & Groza, V. Mother-daughter relationships among Chinese and Romanian adoptees. International Journal of Child and Family Welfare. Volume 7, No. 1, March 2004.
Krauss N.A., Machlin S.R., Adams G.A. Health care expenditures for injuries: estimates from the 1997 MEPS. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2003. MEPS Research Findings No. 19. AHRQ Pub. No. 03-0033.
(Work in progress) Adams, G.A. “Predicting high-risk behavior among self-identified intravenous drug addicts, findings from the 2005 Kiev Study.”
(Work in progress) Adams, G.A. “Not just addiction anymore: the relationship between use frequency and social conditions among self-identified narcotic addicts, findings from the 2005 Kiev Study.
(Work in progress) Adams, G.A. “Demystifying co-dependence and maintaining family support in the treatment of intravenous drug users, findings from the 2005 Kiev Study”
(Work in progress) Adams, G.A. “Analyzing daily activity data: new measures from the 2005 Kiev study.” Further analyses of addict data gathered Kiev, Ukraine.
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