ADARP Researchers
The ADARP Program is not a department on campus and does not make faculty appointments. Faculty associated with the program reside in departments across the WSU campus and are united by a common interest in the biological and sociological mechanisms of substance abuse. Research programs range from examining abuse patterns in Washington State to determining changes in gene expression following cocaine or alcohol administration to experimental animals.
Faculty Researchers

Professor
Integrative Physiology & Neuroscience appleyard@wsu.edu
- Metabolic & homeostatic systems
- Molecular & cellular neuroscience

Professor and Director
Murrow College of Communication
eaustin@wsu.edu
- Children’s social development
- Media and parents in children’s decision making about substance abuse.
- Media literacy prevention programs

Executive Vice Chancellor of Research and Professor
celestina@wsu.edu
- Perinatal substance use
- Substance use across the lifespan
- Substance use related to cognitive decline, sex/gender differences

Associate Professor
Integrative Physiology & Neuroscience lanebrown@wsu.edu
- Molecular & cellular neuroscience
- Sensory neuroscience & pain

Associate Professor
Integrative Physiology & Neuroscience
tebrown@wsu.edu
- Neurobiological mechanisms of drug addiction and obesity

Professor and Chair
Human Development
michael.cleveland@wsu.edu
- Sustaining recovery among youth and emerging adults
- Developing Health Interventions to prevent relapse
- Dissemination and Implementation Science
- Translational Research
- Evidence-based Program Sustainability
- Evidence-based Program Adaptation
- Prevention Workforce Development

Professor Emerita
Department of Psychology
craft@wsu.edu
- Sex differences in drug effects; gonadal hormone modulation of pain and analgesia.

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
carrie.cuttler@wsu.edu
- Influence of Cannabis on Cognition
- Mental Health
- Stress

Adjunct Faculty
Department of Chemistry
dmrdavyd@gmail.com
- Chronic alcohol exposure on drug metabolism
- Cytochrome P450-dependent signaling

Assistant Professor
Integrative Physiology & Neuroscience kristen.delevich@wsu.edu
- Emotion, motivation, reward & addiction
- Reproductive biology

Professor & Director
Sleep & Performance Research Center hvd@wsu.edu
- Smoking cessation
- Opioid use disorder
- Insomnia
- Sleep physiology
- Neurobehavioral Performance

Associate Professor
Department of Criminal Justice kathryn.dubois@wsu.edu
- Epidemiology of intimate partner violence and sexual assault
- Violence in small towns
- Rural crime and justice
- Environmental criminology
- Public health approaches to alcohol and drug policy

Professor
Department of Psychology
dyck@wsu.edu
- Emotion, motivation, reward & addiction
- Molecular & cellular neuroscience
- Pharmacology
- Systems biology

Professor
Integrative Physiology & Neuroscience rita.fuchs@wsu.edu
- Emotion, motivation, reward & addiction
- Molecular & cellular neuroscience
- Pharmacology
- Systems biology

Associate Director
Governmental Studies & Services mjgaffney@wsu.edu
- Opioid enforcement
- DWI enforcement

Professor
School of Molecular Biosciences k.hayashi@wsu.edu
- Cannabis

Sr. Vice Provost
Provost Office
laurahill@wsu.edu
- Prevention of substance use/misuse
- Drug courts and their effectiveness in increasing sobriety and reducing recidivism for adult felons, juvenile delinquents, and for parents whose children have become dependent on the state.
- Neural basis of pain modulation and morphine tolerance.
- Statistics/methodology
- Substance abuse
- Voluntary associations and organizations
- Research tracks changes over time and group differences in alcohol and drug use
- Social and legal consequences, and correlates of substance abuse

Associate Professor
Department of Nursing taklein@wsu.edu
- Intersection between policy/regulation, perspective authority, and scope of practice.
- Interest in medical cannabis and healthcare practices related to controlled substances.

Associate Professor
marian.wilson@wsu.edu
- Opioid use disorder and withdrawal
- Cannabis and Pain.

Associate Professor
Integrative Physiology & Neuroscience rossid@vetmed.wsu.edu
- Alcohol use disorder
- Mechanisms of cannabis actions
- Impacts of drugs of abuse on brain development and/or during chronic use in adults

Adjunct Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering bertrand.tanner@wsu.edu
- Impact of drugs of abuse on cardiac muscle function.