Addiction economics, specifically economics of drug and alcohol abuse and mental disorders and evaluation of treatment programs for these disorders.

Addiction economics

Economics of drug and alcohol abuse

Evaluation of substance abuse treatments Programs

"Economic Aspects of Ecstasy Use". Public Health Service, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), RO1 Grant (5/07-4/10. Current (P.I)

"Economic Aspects of Alcohol Use and Abuse" National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Grant No. KO1 AA13608-01, (10/02 to 9/08. (P.I.)

"Chronic Drug Use, Depression, and Labor Supply in a Community-Based Setting" NIDA R03 DA13631 (9/00 to 8/03. (P.I.)

ecial Guest at the “Twentieth Anniversary – Special Conference Meeting of the Centre for Health Economics“. University of York, York, U.K., December, 2003.

Research Methods Award in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research - Venice, Italy, March 2003. International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics (ICMPE); Milan, Italy.

Latin-American Scholarship Programs for American Universities (LASPAU)

Tuition Waiver Awards for Academic Excellence, State University of New York - Syracuse, NY, 1990 -1991.

Alexandre, P.K. 2008. “Mental Health Care for Youth: Predictors of Use are not always the same as Predictors of Volume” Social Science Journal. In Press

Alexandre, P.K., Dowling, K., Stephens, R., and Laris, A. 2008. Predictors of Outpatient Mental Health Services Use by American Youth. Psychological Services. Vol. (2): 000-000.

Martins, S.; C.L. Storr, P.K. Alexandre, and H.D. Chilcoat. 2008. “Do adolescent Ecstasy users have different attitudes towards drugs when compared to Marijuana users? Drug and Alcohol Dependence 94: 63-72

Alexandre, P.K., M.T.French, C. Weisner, et al. 2006. "The Effects of Treatment History and Cost on Long-Term Outcomes for Problem Drinkers". Journal of Addictive Diseases 25(1): 105–117.

Alexandre, P.K., G. Saint-Jean, and L. Crandall. 2005. "Prenatal Care Use in Haiti: Urban and Rural Differences." Pan American Journal of Public Health 18(2): 84 – 92.

Barbara, L., M.B. Brown, P.K. Alexandre, et al., 2005. “The Cost of Twin Pregnancy: Maternal and Neonatal Factors”. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 192(3): 909-915

Barbara, L., M.B. Brown, P.K. Alexandre, et al., 2005. “The Cost of Twin Pregnancy: Maternal and Neonatal Factors”. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 192(3): 909-915

Alexandre, P.K., and M.T. French. 2004. “Further Evidence on the Labor Market Effects of Addiction: Chronic Drug Use and Labor Supply in Metropolitan Miami.” Contemporary Economic Policy 22(3): 382-393

French, M.T., K.E. McCollister, P.K. Alexandre, D.D. Chitwood, and C.B. McCoy. 2004. “Revolving Roles in Drug-Related Crime: The Cost of Chronic Drug Users as Victims and Perpetrators.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 20(3): 217-241.

Alexandre, P.K., J. Fede, and M. Mullings. 2004. “Gender Differences in the Labor Effects of Serious Mental Illnesses.” In The Economics of Gender and Mental Health", D. Marquotte et al. (eds.). University of Maryland – Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD. 2004

Alexandre, P.K., M.C. Roebuck, M.T. French, and M.A. Barry. 2003. The Cost of Residential Addiction Treatment in Public Housing. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 24: 285-290.

French, M.T., M.C. Roebuck, and P.K. Alexandre. 2003. To Test or Not to Test: Do Workplace Drug Testing Programs Really Discourage Employee Drug Use? Social Science Research 33:45-63.

Alexandre, P.K., H.J. Salomé, M.T. French, J.E. Rivers, and C.B. McCoy. 2002. “Consequences and Costs of Closing a Publicly-Funded Methadone Maintenance Clinic.” Social Science Quarterly 83(2): 509-536.

Alexandre, P.K., and M.T. French. 2001. “Labor Supply of Poor Residents in Metropolitan Miami, Florida: The Role of Depression and the Co-Morbid Effects of Substance Use”. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 4: 161-173.

Alexandre, P.K., M.C. Roebuck, and M.T. French. 2001. “Problem Drinking, Health Services Utilization, and Medical Care.” In Recent Developments in Alcoholism: Services Research in the Era of Manged Care. Volume 15. Marc Galanter, Ed. Plenum Press, NY. Chapter 13, pp. 285-298.

French, M.T., M.C. Roebuck, and P.K. Alexandre. 2001. “Illicit Drug Use, Employment, and Labor Force Participation.” Southern Economic Journal 68(2): 349-368.