Kenneth M. Carpenter

TL;DR: The results suggest that temperament dimensions may be important for identifying substance dependent patients more likely to benefit from pharmacological interventions for comorbid depressive disorders.

TL;DR: Remote parent-to-parent coaching appears promising for providing emotional and evidence-based informational support to family members parenting a child with substance use problems.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a multimodal model can predict treatment success in cocaine dependence at an individual level, and pose hypotheses for the underlying neural circuitry mechanisms responsible for individual variations in treatment outcome.

TL;DR: The use of quetiapine to treat CUD was associated with an increased likelihood of heavy frequency use transitioning to moderate use, but not light use, and the clinical significance of reductions in cannabis use, short of abstinence warrants further study.

TL;DR: Cannabis-dependent individuals evaluated for clinical trial participation reported that recruitment advertising was an important factor in leading them to seek treatment, and public health efforts directed at encouraging cannabis- dependent individuals to seeking treatment have implications.