Publications

In sequential order by date:

• Vest, N., Reynolds, C. J., & Tragesser, S. L. (2016). Impulsivity and risk for prescription opioid misuse in a chronic pain patient sample. Addictive Behaviors, 60, 184-190.
• Vest, N. A., Murphy, K., & Tragesser, S. L. (2018). Borderline personality disorder features and drinking, cannabis, and prescription opioid motives: Differential associations across substance and gender. Addictive Behaviors, 87, 46-54.
• Vest, N. A., & Tragesser, S. L. (2018). Borderline features and prescription opioid misuse in a substance use disorder treatment sample. Substance Use and Misuse. 54(1), 166-175. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2018.1512626
• Vest, N., & Humphreys, K. N. (2019). Do we know enough to prescribe opioid-agonist therapies to adolescents with problematic opioid use? A commentary on Camenga et al. (2019). Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 80(4), 406-407.
• Reynolds, C. J., Vest, N., & Tragesser, S. L. (2019). Borderline personality disorder features and risk for prescription opioid misuse in a chronic pain sample: Roles for identity disturbances and impulsivity. Journal of Personality Disorders, 1-18.
• Vest, N. A. & Tragesser, S. L. (2019). Coping motives mediate the relationship between alcohol, cannabis, and prescription opioid use disorder symptomatology in a substance use disorder treatment sample. Personality: Theory, Research, & Treatment. doi: 1037/per0000385
• Vest, N. A., McPherson, S., Burns, G. L., Tragesser, S. L. (2020). Parallel latent change modeling of depression and pain to predict relapse during buprenorphine and naloxone treatment. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.107940
• Shover C, Vest N, Chen D, Stueber A, Falasinnu T, Hah J, Kim J, Mackey I, Weber K, Ziadni M, Humphreys K. (2020). Association of state policy allowing medical cannabis for opioid use disorder with dispensary marketing for this indication: Results from a cross-sectional study of medical cannabis dispensary websites and social media. JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e2010001-e2010001
• Shover, C. L., Falasinnu, T. O., Dwyer, C. L., Santos, N. B., Cunningham, N. J., Vest, N. A., & Humphreys, K. (2020). Steep increases in fentanyl-related mortality west of the Mississippi River: synthesizing recent evidence from county and state surveillance. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
• Vest, N. A., Sox-Harris, A., Ilgen, M., Humphreys, K., & Timko, C. (2020). Depression, Alcoholics Anonymous involvement, and daily alcohol drinking among dual diagnosis patients: A longitudinal parallel growth mixture model. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. doi: 10.1111/acer.14474
• Vest, N., Johnson, O., Nowotny, K., & Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2020). Prison population reductions and COVID-19: A latent profile analysis synthesizing recent evidence from the Texas state prison system. Journal of Urban Health. doi: 1007/s11524-020-00504-z
• Stull, S., Smith, K., Vest, N., Effinger, D., & Epstein, D. (2021). Potential Value of the Insights and Lived Experiences of Addiction Researchers with Addiction. Journal of Addiction Medicine. doi: 0.1097/ADM.0000000000000867
• LaBelle, O., Meeks, M., Vest, N., Hastings, M., & Harding, T. (2022). Recovery Dharma: Exploration of a Buddhist-based mutual help organization for the treatment of addiction. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions.
• Vest, N. A., Reinstra, M., Timko, C., Kelly, J., & Humphreys, K. (2021). Collegiate recovery programming for students in addiction recovery: A PRISMA-guided scoping review. Addictive Behaviors. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106992
• Vest, N. A., Rossi, F., Ilgen, M., Humphreys, K., & Timko, C. (2021). Trajectories of PTSD symptoms, Suicidal Ideation, and Substance Use among Veteran Psychiatry Inpatients: A Latent Class Trajectory Analysis. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 82(6), 792-800. PMID: 34762039
• Russell, A.M., Vest, N.A., & Litt, D.M. (2022). Social networking site use and alcohol use behaviors among adolescents: a latent profile analysis. Addictive Behaviors. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107261
• Fix, R. L., Vest, N., & Thompson, K. R. (2022). Evidencing the need to screen for social determinants of health among boys entering a juvenile prison: A latent profile analysis. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. doi: 10.1177/15412040221096359
• Vest, N., Hennessy, E., Castedo de Martell, S., & Smith, R. (2022). A Socio-Ecological Model for Collegiate Recovery Programs. Addiction Research & Theory. DOI: 10.1080/16066359.2022.2123471
• Timko, C., Vest, N., Smelson, D., Cucciare, M., & Blonigen, D. (2022). Substance use and criminogenic thinking: Longitudinal latent class analysis of veterans with criminal histories. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2022.108893
• LaBelle, O., *Hastings, M., Vest, N., *Meeks, M., & *Lucier, K. (2023). The role of mindfulness, meditation, and peer support in recovery capital among members of Recovery Dharma. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4103107
• Beasley, C. R., LaBelle, O., Vest, N., Olson, B., Skinner, M. D., Ferrari, J. R., & Jason, L. A. (2023). The Involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous Scale – Revised: Factor structure & validation. Substance Abuse & Misuse. doi: 1080/10826084.2022.2149245
• Apsley, H., Vest, N., Knapp, K., Santos-Landoza, A., Gray, J., Hard, G., & Jones, A. (2023). Non-Engagement in Substance Use Treatment among Women with an Unmet Need for Treatment: A Latent Class Analysis on Multidimensional Barriers. Drug & Alcohol Dependence. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109715
• Vest, N., Wenzel, K., Choo, T., Pavlicova, M., Rotrosen, J., Nunes, E., Lee, J.D., & Fishman, M. (2023). Trajectories of depression among patients in treatment for opioid use disorder: A growth mixture model secondary analysis of the XBOT trial. American Journal on Addictions. doi: 1111/ajad.13371
• Smith, R. L., Bannard, T., McDaniel, J., Aliev, F., Brown, A., Holliday, E., … & Dick, D. (2023). Characteristics of Students Participating in Collegiate Recovery Programs and the Impact of COVID-19: An Updated National Longitudinal Study. Addiction Research & Theory. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2023.2216459
• Timko, C., Cucciare, M. A., Lor, M. C., Stein, M., & Vest, N. (2023). Patient-Concerned Other Dyads’ 12-Step Involvement and Patients’ Substance Use: A Latent Class Growth Model Analysis. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. org/10.15288/jsad.22-00378
• Cioffi, C. C., Hibbard, P. F., Hagaman, A., Tillson, M., & Vest, N. (2023). Perspectives of researchers with lived experience in implementation science research: Opportunities to close the research-to-practice gap in substance use systems of care. Implementation Research and Practice, 4, 26334895231180635.
• Jones, A. A., Shearer, R. D., Segel, J. E., Santos-Lozada, A., Strong-Jones, S., Vest, N., … & Winkelman, T. N. A. (2023). Opioid and Stimulant Attributed Treatment Admissions and Fatal Overdoses: Using National Surveillance Data to Examine the Intersection of Race, Sex, and Polysubstance Use, 1992-2020. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 109946.
• Gray, J. C., Larson, M. J., Moresco, N., Dufour, S., Ritter, G. A., DeLeon, P. D., … & Adams, R. S. (2023). Healthcare utilization and readiness outcomes among soldiers with post-deployment at-risk drinking, by multimorbidity class. Alcohol. doi: 0.1016/j.alcohol.2023.08.008
• Ramaswamy, M., Manz, C., Kouyoumdjian, F., Vest, N., Puglisi, L., Wang, E., … & Rebbeck, T. R. (2023). Cancer equity for those impacted by mass incarceration. JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, djad087.
• Shearer RD, Segel JE, Howell BA, Jones AA, Khatri UK, Teixeira da Silva D, Vest N, Winkelman TNA. (In Press). Racial and ethnic differences in heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine use, treatment, and mortality trends in three national data sources –United States, 2010-2019. Med Care. Accepted Nov 26, 2023
• Wang, V., Stone, B. M., Vest, N., & LaBelle, O. P. (2023). Emotion regulation predicts recovery capital beyond mindfulness and demographic variation in recovery dharma. Addiction Research & Theory, 1-7.
• Vest, N., Bell, J., Nieder, A., Smith, R., Bannard, T., Tragesser, S., Hibbard, S., and Dick, D. (2024). Learning with conviction: Exploring the relationship between criminal legal system involvement and substance use and recovery outcomes for students in collegiate recovery programs. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
• Segel, Joel E., et al. “Understanding Regional Patterns of Overdose Deaths Related to Opioids and Psychostimulants.” Substance Use & Misuse(2023): 1-8.
• Freibott CE, Vest N, Stein MD, Lipson SK. (2024) Opioid Overdose Knowledge Among Adolescents and Young Adults. JAMA Pediatrics. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0561
• Vest, N., Flesaker, M., Bohler, R., Timko, C., Kelly, J., Stein, M., & Humphreys, K. (2024). Characterizing Collegiate Recovery Programs in the US and Canada: A Survey of Program Directors. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, jsad-24.
• Vest, N. (2024). Invited Commentary: Unveiling the Grim Reality—Suicide Mortality Among Formerly Incarcerated Individuals in North Carolina. American journal of epidemiology, kwae111.

• Vest, N. A., & Tragesser, S. L. (2017, April). Borderline personality features uniquely associated with prescription opioid misuse in a substance use disorder treatment sample. Oral presentation at the meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, New York, NY.
• Vest, N. A., McPherson, S., Burns, G. L., & Tragesser, S. L. (2019, October). Parallel latent change model of pain and depression in predication of relapse during buprenorphine and naloxone treatment. Oral presentation at the Addiction Health Services Research Conference in Park City, UT.
• Vest, N. A., Scott, R., Castro, E., & Stockwell, J. (2019, November). Quantitative Methods to Improve Outcomes for Higher Education in Prison: The Issue with Common Confounders. Oral presentation at the National Conference for Higher Education in Prisons in St. Louis, MO.
• Vest, N. A. (2020, June). Design and analysis workshop: Using mixtures to predict a latent survival outcome. Oral presentation at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) conference in Hollywood, FL. Presented virtually due to covid-19.
• Vest, N. A., & Humphreys, K. (2020, June). Learning with conviction: In recovery and on campus with a criminal history. Keynote presentation at the Association for Recovery in Higher Education conference in San Diego, CA. Presented virtually due to covid-19.
• Gilam, G., Vest, N. A., & Mackey, S.C. (2021, January). Latent Anger Profiles Explain Severity of Chronic Pain Above and Beyond Anxiety and Depression. Presented at the International Association for the Study of Pain‘s Virtual Series on Pain.
• Vest, N. A., Humphreys, K., Yu, M., T, J., Harris, A. H. S., & Finlay, A. (2021, April). Substance use disorder treatment engagement among veterans with and without justice involvement. Oral presentation presented at the 13^th Academic & Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health, Virtual Conference.
• Vest, N. A., Johnson, O., Nowotny, K., & Brinkley-Rubinstein, L. (2021, April). Decarceration in response to COVID-19 infection in prison. Late breaking oral presentation presented at the 13^th Academic & Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health, Virtual Conference.
• Vest, N. A., Smith, K., Stull, S., Effinger, D., Epstein, D., Cleveland, H., & Faulkner, M. (2021, June). Addiction researchers with their own lived experiences of addiction: Implications for the science, the scientists, and the public. Town Hall Forum presented at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) Virtual Conference.
• Vest, N. (2021, August). Change of Plans: How the Criminal History Box Can Negatively Influence Career Choice. Symposium presented orally at the American Psychological Association (APA) National Conference 2021 (virtual due to COVID-19 restrictions).
• Vest, N., Dick, D., Lefebvre, M., Rice, S., & Bilbow, A. Psychiatric Genomic Consortium outreach committee panel on the value of lived experience in research. Presented virtually at the World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics Conference 2021.
• Cleveland, M., Vest, N., Meca, A., & Delzell, E. Integrating research on recovery capital and identity development: Meeting the needs of emerging adults in recovery from substance use disorder. Presented virtually at the 10^th Conference on Emerging Adulthood through the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood in November 2021.
• Vest, N., Timko, C., Cucciare, T., Blonigan, D., & Smelson, D. Substance Use and Criminogenic Thinking: Longitudinal Latent Class Analysis of Veterans with Criminal Histories. Presented virtually at the Academic & Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health 2022.
• Vest, N. (2022, June). Reporting with conviction: A Formerly Incarcerated Scholars Perspective on Media Relations. Presented at the 85^th Annual College on Problems of Drug Dependence conference in Minneapolis, MN on June 12, 2022.
• Vest, N. (2022, August). The Impact of Justice-Involved Persons in the Continuum of Care for Substance Use Disorders. Presented at the American Psychological Association Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 6, 2022.
• Vest, N., Fix, R., & Thompson, K. (2023, April). A Latent Profile Analysis of Social Determinants of Health among Boys Entering a Juvenile Prison. Presented at the Academic & Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health in Raleigh, North Carolina on April 13, 2023.
• Vest, N. (2023, June). What to do when everyone with lived experience wants to help? Presented at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence Conference in Denver, CO on June 19, 2023.
• Vest, N., Hennessy, E., Castedo de Martell, S., & Smith, R. (2023, June). Introducing a Socio-Ecological Model of Collegiate Recovery Programs. Keynote at the Association for Recovery in Higher Education Conference in Columbus, Ohio on June 27, 2023.
• Finlay, A., Washington, L., Camplain, C., Kelton, K., Vest, N., & Harzke, A. J. (2024, April). How to participate in the peer-review manuscript process: Perspectives on peer-reviewing from early career through editorship stages. Presented at the 17th Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health, Phoenix, AZ.
• Vest, N. (2024, June). Cancer equity for those impacted by mass incarceration. Presented orally at the Endocrine Society 2024 Conference on June 2, 2024.
• Vest, N. & Treitler, P. (2024, October). Redemption and Research: The Higher Education Pathways of Professors with a Past. Presented orally at the Beyond the Bars Conference in Portland, ME on October 5, 2024.
• Vest, N. (2024, November). What Does It Take to Extend Higher Education Opportunity to Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated People?. Presented orally at the Association for Public Policy & Management Conference in National Harbor, MD on November 22, 2024
• Vest, N. (2024, December) Healing and Higher Education: Student Experiences, Identity, and Wellbeing in Collegiate Recovery. Abstract accepted for presentation at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology conference in Phoenix, AZ.