Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy
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Karen Cropsey

Biography

She attended undergraduate and her masters degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She attended Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana for her doctoral training and completed internship in Clinical Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She completed postdoctoral fellowships in forensics and substance abuse at University of Mississippi Medical Center and Virginia Commonwealth University. She stayed on as faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University after completing her fellowship training. She joined the faculty at University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2007 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry.

Research Interest

She  interest centers on treating substance abuse in vulnerable populations such as individuals in the criminal justice system and persons living with HIV/AIDS. She has an ongoing program of research in smoking cessation interventions with individuals in the criminal justice system as well as studies investigating alcohol treatment for individuals living with HIV.

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