Dr. Helene R. White
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Sociology
Email: hewhite@rci.rutgers.edu
Curriculum Vitae: 
- Bio
- Grants
- Selected Publications
- Recent Awards
Bio
Helene R. White is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Sociology having held a joint appointment in the Rutgers Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies and Sociology Department until she retired in 2019. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Sociology. Her research focuses on the development, causes, consequences, comorbidity, and prevention of substance use and other problem behaviors (e.g., violence, delinquency, crime, and mental health problems) using longitudinal data from community and at-risk samples. Dr. White’s research had been funded continuously by NIH from the late 1970s through 2021. Currently, she is MPI on a study examining simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use among college students and consulting on a few other longitudinal studies on substance use development and prevention. Dr. White has co-authored one book, co-edited three others, and published more than 200 articles and chapters and is listed on the Web of Science Highly Cited list. She is a Fellow of the Society for Prevention Research and the American Society of Criminology and has won several awards for her scholarship.
Grants
| National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2017-2022). Estimating Comparative Effectiveness of Alcohol Interventions for Young Adults (Co-investigator) ($2,458,000) |
Selected Publications
| Tan, L., Friedman, Z., Zhou, Z., Huh, D., White, H. R., & Mun, E. Y. (2022). Does abstaining from alcohol in high school moderate intervention effects for college students? Implications for tiered intervention strategies. Frontiers in Psychology. 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.993517
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| Drohan, M. M., Stevens, A. K., Gunn, R. L., Sokolovsky, A. W., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2022). Acute Consequences Associated with Co-use of Alcohol and Cannabis: A Daily Survey Analysis. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, jsad-22. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.22-00062
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| Gunn, R. L., Sokolovsky, A. W., Drohan, M. M., Boyle, H. K., Stevens, A. K., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. (2022). The role of alcohol and cannabis co‐use in drinking rate and its impact on consequences. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14946
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| Guttmannova, K., Oesterle, S., Skinner, M. L., Kuklinski, M. R., Hultgren, B., Rhew, I. C., … & White, H. R. (2022). Substance-specific risk factors among young adults: potential prevention targets across cannabis-permissive environments. Substance Use & Misuse, 57(13), 1923-1930. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2022.2120363
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| Merrill, J.E., Stevens, A.K., Jackson, K.M., & White, H.R. 2022. COVID-19, College Campus Closures, and Cannabis Consumption Changes: Students Who Left College to Live with Parents Were Less likely to Use Cannabis. JSAD FastTakes, 5 (online). https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2022.83.55
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| Espinosa, A., Ruglass, L. M., Conway, F. N., Jackson, K. M., & White, H. R. (2023). Motives, frequency, and consequences of cannabis use among college students. Journal of Drug Issues, 53(1), 61-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220426221093608
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| Stevens, A. K., Gunn, R. L., Boyle, H. K., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2022). Unplanned versus planned simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use in the daily lives of a predominantly white college student sample: What are the motives, contexts, and outcomes?. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000813
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| Stevens, A. K., Boyle, H. K., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2022). Understanding the motives, contexts, and consequences of unplanned versus planned drinking in daily life. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 36(3), 223. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000764
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| Lanza, S. T., Sokolovsky, A. W., Linden-Carmichael, A. N., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2022). Understanding heterogeneity among simultaneous alcohol and marijuana users: latent classes derived from daily diary data. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 83(3), 358-363. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2022.83.358
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| Merrill, J. E., Stevens, A. K., Jackson, K. M., & White, H. R. (2022). Changes in cannabis consumption among college students during COVID-19. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 83(1), 55-63. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2022.83.55
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| Stevens, A. K., Drohan, M. M., Boyle, H. K., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2021). More Reasons, More Use and Problems? Examining the Influence of Number of Motives on Consumption and Consequences Across Alcohol-Only, Cannabis-Only, and Simultaneous-Use Days. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 82(6), 782-791. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2021.82.782
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| Stevens, A. K., Blanchard, B. E., Sokolovsky, A. W., Gunn, R. L., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2021). Forgoing plans for alcohol and cannabis use in daily life: Examining reasons for nonuse when use was planned in a predominantly white college student sample. Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research, 45(10), 2167-2178. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14693
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| Gette, J. A., Stevens, A. K., Littlefield, A. K., Hayes, K. L., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2021). Individual and COVID-19-specific indicators of compliance with mask use and social distancing: The importance of norms, perceived effectiveness, and state response. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(16), 8715. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168715
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| Fossos-Wong, N., Kilmer, J. R., W. Sokolovsky, A., Lee, H. Y., Jackson, K. M., & White, H. R. (2021). Patterns, consequences, and motives in simultaneous use of prescription stimulant medication with alcohol and marijuana. Substance Use & Misuse, 56(13), 1972-1981. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2021.1963983
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| Jackson, K. M., Stevens, A. K., Sokolovsky, A. W., Hayes, K. L., & White, H. R. (2021). Real-world simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use: An ecological study of situational motives and social and physical contexts. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 35(6), 698. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000765
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| Gunn, R. L., Sokolovsky, A., Stevens, A. K., Hayes, K., Fitzpatrick, S., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2021). Contextual influences on simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use in a predominately white sample of college students. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 35(6), 691. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000739
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| Jackson, K. M., Merrill, J. E., Stevens, A. K., Hayes, K. L., & White, H. R. (2021). Changes in alcohol use and drinking context due to the COVID‐19 pandemic: a multimethod study of college student drinkers. Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research, 45(4), 752-764. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14574
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| Boyle, H. K., Gunn, R. L., López, G., Fox, O. S., & Merrill, J. E. (2021). Qualitative examination of simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use reasons, evaluations, and patterns among heavy drinking young adults. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000746
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| Sokolovsky, A. W., Hertel, A. W., Micalizzi, L., White, H. R., Hayes, K. L., & Jackson, K. M. (2021). Preliminary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on smoking and vaping in college students. Addictive behaviors, 115, 106783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106783
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| Stevens, A. K., Aston, E. R., Gunn, R. L., Sokolovsky, A. W., Padovano, H. T., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2021). Does the combination matter? Examining the influence of alcohol and cannabis product combinations on simultaneous use and consequences in daily life. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 45(1), 181-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14494
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| Gunn, R. L., Sokolovsky, A., Stevens, A. K., Metrik, J., White, H., & Jackson, K. (2021). Ordering in alcohol and cannabis co-use: Impact on daily consumption and consequences. Drug and alcohol dependence, 218, 108339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108339
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| Lee, C. M., Kilmer, J. R., Neighbors, C., Cadigan, J. M., Fairlie, A. M., Patrick, M. E., … & White, H. R. (2021). A marijuana consequences checklist for young adults with implications for brief motivational intervention research. Prevention science, 22(6), 758-768. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-020-01171-x
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| Huh, D., Li, X., Zhou, Z., Walters, S. T., Baldwin, S. A., Tan, Z., … & Mun, E. Y. (2022). A structural equation modeling approach to meta-analytic mediation analysis using individual participant data: Testing protective behavioral strategies as a mediator of brief motivational intervention effects on alcohol-related problems. Prevention Science, 23(3), 390-402.
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| Gunn, R. L., Aston, E. R., Sokolovsky, A. W., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2020). Complex cannabis use patterns: Associations with cannabis consequences and cannabis use disorder symptomatology. Addictive behaviors, 105, 106329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106329
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| White, H. R., Stevens, A. K., Hayes, K., & Jackson, K. M. (2020). Changes in alcohol consumption among college students due to COVID-19: Effects of campus closure and residential change. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 81(6), 725-730. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2020.81.725
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| Risi, M. M., Sokolovsky, A. W., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2020). Factor structure of the Cannabis Use Disorders Identification Test Revised (CUDIT-R) for men and women. Cannabis, 3(2), 148-156. DOI: 10.26828/cannabis.2020.02.002
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| Stevens, A. K., Sokolovsky, A. W., Treloar Padovano, H., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2020). Heaviness of alcohol use, alcohol problems, and subjective intoxication predict discrepant drinking reports in daily life. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 44(7), 1468-1478. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14362
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| Sokolovsky, A. W., Gunn, R. L., Micalizzi, L., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2020). Alcohol and marijuana co-use: Consequences, subjective intoxication, and the operationalization of simultaneous use. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 212, 107986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.107986
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| Jackson, K. M., Sokolovsky, A. W., Gunn, R. L., & White, H. R. (2020). Consequences of alcohol and marijuana use among college students: Prevalence rates and attributions to substance-specific versus simultaneous use. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 34(2), 370. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000545
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| Conway, F. N., Sokolovsky, A., White, H. R., & Jackson, K. M. (2020). Simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use: A brief measure of motives. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 81(2), 203-211. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2020.81.203
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| Ruglass, L. M., Espinosa, A., Fitzpatrick, S., Meyer, M. K., Cadet, K., Sokolovsky, A., … & White, H. R. (2020). Prevalence and correlates of concurrent and simultaneous cannabis and cigarette use among past-year cannabis-using US college students. Substance use & misuse, 55(2), 329-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2019.1668015
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| Mun, E. Y., Huo, Y., White, H. R., Suzuki, S., & De la Torre, J. (2019). Multivariate higher-order IRT model and MCMC algorithm for linking individual participant data from multiple studies. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 1328. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01328
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| White, H. R., Kilmer, J. R., Fossos‐Wong, N., Hayes, K., Sokolovsky, A. W., & Jackson, K. M. (2019). Simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use among college students: Patterns, correlates, norms, and consequences. Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research, 43(7), 1545-1555. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14072
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| Guttmannova, K., Skinner, M. L., Oesterle, S., White, H. R., Catalano, R. F., & Hawkins, J. D. (2019). The interplay between marijuana-specific risk factors and marijuana use over the course of adolescence. Prevention Science, 20(2), 235-245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-018-0882-9
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| White, H. R., Conway, F. N., Buckman, J. F., & Loeber, R. (2018). Does substance use exacerbate escalation along developmental pathways of covert and overt externalizing behaviors among young men?. Journal of developmental and life-course criminology, 4(2), 137-147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-017-0076-3
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| White, H. R., Anderson, K. G., & Beardslee, J. (2018). Stress as a moderator of the effects of coping motives on alcohol and marijuana use in young adulthood. Cannabis, 1(1), 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.26828/cannabis.2018.01.001 |
Recent Awards
| White, H., (2021). Top Cited Paper 2020. (White, Stevens, Hayes, & Jackson, 2020), Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. |
| White, H., (2021). Annual Field Editors Award for 2020, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. |
| White, H., (2019). Annual Field Editors Award for 2018, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. |
| White, H., (2018). Annual Field Editors Award for 2017, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. |