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Training > Psychology Training Faculty > Suzanne Thomas, Ph.D. 

Name: Suzanne Thomas, Ph.D.   
[Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs]

Education: Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina, 1996
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychiatry
Licensure: N/A
Professional Organizations: Research Society on Alcoholism

Presentations:

  • Understanding drinking to cope. Presented at the annual conference of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, March 2006.
  • Predictors of drinking to cope in individuals with social anxiety. Presented at the Research Society on Alcoholism, June 2005.
  • Drinking to cope with social anxiety: Relationship to alcohol anxiolysis.  Presented at the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, October 2004.
  • Alcohol anxiolysis predicts drinking to cope.  Presented at the annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, June 2004.

Publications:

  • Thomas, S. E., Kelly, S. J., Mattson, S. N., and Riley, E. P.  Comparison of social abilities of children with fetal alcohol syndrome to those of children with similar IQ scores and normal controls.  Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research 22(2):528-533, 1998.
  • Drobes, D. J., and Thomas, S. E.  Assessing craving for alcohol.  Alcohol Research & Health: The Journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism 23(3):179-186, 1999.
  • Thevos, A. K., Thomas, S. E., and Randall, C. L.  Baseline differences in social support among treatment-seeking alcoholics with and without social phobia.  Substance Abuse 20(2):107-121, 1999.
  • Thomas, S. E., Thevos, A. K., and Randall, C. L.  Alcoholics with and without social phobia: A comparison of substance use and psychiatric variables.  Journal of Studies on Alcohol 60(4):472-479, 1999.
  • Randall, C. L., Thomas, S. E., and Thevos, A. K.  Gender comparison in alcoholics with concurrent social phobia: Implications for alcoholism treatment.  American Journal on Addictions 9(3):202-215, 2000.
  • Thevos, A. K., Roberts, J. S., Thomas, S. E., and Randall, C. L.  Cognitive behavioral therapy delays relapse in female socially phobic alcoholics.  Addictive Behaviors 25(3):333-345, 2000.
  • Deas, D., and Thomas, S. E.  An overview of controlled studies of adolescent substance abuse treatment.  American Journal on Addictions 10(2):178-189, 2001.
  • Randall, C. L., Johnson, M. R., Thevos, A. K., Sonne, S. C., Thomas, S. E., Willard, S. L., Brady, K. T., and Davidson, J. R.  Paroxetine for social anxiety and alcohol use in dual-diagnosed patients. Depression and Anxiety 14(4):255-262, 2001.
  • Randall, C. L., Thomas, S., and Thevos, A.K.  Concurrent alcoholism and social anxiety disorder:  A first step toward developing effective treatments.  Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 25(2): 210-220, 2001.
  • Thevos, A. K., Thomas, S. E., and Randall, C. L.  Social support in alcohol dependence and social phobia: Treatment comparisons.  Research on Social Work Practice 11(4):458-472, 2001.
  • Deas, D. and Thomas, S. E.  Comorbid psychiatric factors contributing to adolescent alcohol and other drug use. Alcohol Research & Health 26(2):116-121,2002.
  • Drobes, D. J., Anton, R. F., Thomas, S. E., and Voronin, K.  A clinical laboratory paradigm for evaluating medication effects on alcohol consumption: Naltrexone and nalmefene. Neuropsychopharmacology 28(4):755-764, 2003.
  • Thomas, S. E., Deas, D. and Grindlinger, D. R.  Gender differences in adolescents with substance use disorders: Implications for treatment and prevention. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse 12(4):19-34, 2003.
  • Thomas, S. E., Randall, C. L., Carrigan, M.  Drinking to cope in individuals with social anxiety: A controlled study. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 27(12):1937-1943, 2003.
  • Drobes, D. J., Anton, R. F., Thomas, S. E., Voronin, K. Effects of naltrexone and nalmefene on subjective response to alcohol among non-treamtent-seeking alcoholics and social drinkers. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 28:1362-1370, 2004.
  • Thomas, S. E., Drobes, D. J., Voronin, K. and Anton, R. F. Following alcohol consumption, nontreatment-seeking alcoholics report greater stimulation but similar sedation compared to social drinkers. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 65:330-335, 2004.
  • Upadhyaya, H., Drobes, D. J, and Thomas, S. E.  Reactivity to smoking cues in adolescent cigarette smokers. Addictive Behaviors 29:849-856, 2004.
  • Thomas, S. E., Carrigan, M. H., Randall, C. L.  Predictors of frequency of drinking to cope in socially anxious men and women: A pilot study. Journal of Dual Diagnosis 1: 27-39, 2005.
  • Thomas, S. E., Drobes, D. J., Deas, D. Alcohol cue reactivity in alcohol dependent adolescents. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 66: 354-360, 2005.
  • Thomas, S. E. and Deas, D.  The A-OCDS predicts craving and cue reactivity in adolescent alcoholics.  Addictive Behaviors 30:1638-1648, 2005.
  • Dawes, M. A., Johnson, B. A., Ma, J. Z., Ait—Daoud, N., Thomas, S. E., and Cornelius, J.  Reductions in and relations between “craving” and drinking in a prospective, open-label trial of ondansetron in adolescents with alcohol dependence.  Addictive Behaviors 30:1627-1637, 2005.

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