Publications by authors named "D A Kreager"

Peer support services, including certified recovery specialists (CRSs), have been of increasing interest to treatment scholars. However, if and how such services assist justice-involved individuals with substance use disorders during community reentry is less understood. This pilot study provided CRS services to both reentrants and their family members during the transition from close custody confinement to community supervision, a perilous period in which risks of relapse and rearrest peak.

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Background: Women with substance use disorders (SUDs) often experience adversity related to incarceration and reentry that can impact their substance use outcomes. This study aims to examine the adverse effects of incarceration and reentry on substance use outcomes among women with a history of opioid use disorder (OUD).

Methods: We carried out 42 semi-structured interviews (May-July 2022) with women with a history of criminal legal involvement and OUD (n = 20), criminal legal professionals (n = 10), and SUD treatment professionals (n = 12).

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Introduction: Increasing overdose deaths and criminal legal involvement among women necessitate women-specific solutions to curb the adverse consequences of substance use disorders (SUDs). The current study is the pre-implementation phase of an implementation science study that works with various stakeholders-affected women, criminal legal professionals, and SUD treatment professionals-to identify and address high-priority needs for criminal-legal involved women with SUDs.

Methods: This study uses semi-structured interviews (N = 42) administered in 2022 to women with a history of SUD and criminal legal involvement (n = 20), SUD treatment professionals (n = 12), and criminal legal professionals (n = 10).

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This study applied a sociometric approach to examine the traditional sexual double standard within a sample of Dutch adolescents ( = 1,175; 53.8% females;  = 14.75).

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This research examined associations between dating and number of friends for rural adolescents with same-sex and other-sex dating partners using longitudinal sociometric data (N = 2826; 55% female, 87% White, mean age = 14 at baseline). In multilevel models assessing within-person change, boys gained female friends when they were in same-sex romantic relationships, compared to when they were single. In contrast, girls in same-sex relationships lost female friends and gained male friends.

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