selected publications

• academic article

  • Panic attack history and smoking topography.  Drug and alcohol dependence.  171:84-90. 2017
  • Cannabis use expectancies mediate the relation between depressive symptoms and cannabis use among cannabis-dependent veterans..  Journal of addiction medicine.  8:130-136. 2014
  • Distress tolerance, emotion dysregulation, and anxiety and depressive symptoms among HIV+ individuals..  Cognitive Therapy and Research: Distress Tolerance Special Issue .  37:446-455. 2013
  • 12-Step self-help group participation as a predictor of marijuana abstinence..  Addiction research & theory.  19:76-84. 2011
  • An evaluation of the association between distress tolerance and posttraumatic stress within a trauma-exposed sample..  Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment.  33:129-135. 2011
  • Anxiety sensitivity as a mediator of the relationship between moderate-intensity exercise and coping-oriented marijuana use motives..  American Journal of Addictions.  20:113-119. 2011
  • Chronic pain and marijuana use among a nationally representative sample of adults..  American Journal of Addictions.  20:538-542. 2011
  • Exercise and coping-oriented alcohol use among a trauma-exposed sample..  Addictive behaviors.  36:274-277. 2011
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and cannabis use in a nationally representative sample..  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors .  25:554-558. 2011
  • Exploring the mediational role of coping motives for marijuana use in terms of the relation between anxiety sensitivity and marijuana dependence..  American Journal of Addictions.  19:277-282. 2010
  • Incremental validity of mindfulness skills in relation to emotional dysregulation among a young adult community sample.  Cognitive behaviour therapy.  39:203-213. 2010
  • Marijuana use and panic psychopathology among a representative sample of adults..  Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology.  18:129-134. 2010
  • Multimethod study of distress tolerance and PTSD symptom severity in a trauma-exposed community sample..  Journal of traumatic stress.  23:623-630. 2010
  • Pain-related anxiety and marijuana use motives: A pilot test among active marijuana-using young adults..  Cognitive behaviour therapy.  39:283-292. 2010
  • Uni-morbid and co-occurring marijuana and tobacco use: Examination of concurrent associations with negative mood states..  Journal of addictive diseases.  29:68-77. 2010
  • An evaluation of the nature of marijuana use and its motives among young adult active users..  American Journal of Addictions.  18:409-416. 2009
  • Anxious arousal and anhedonic depression symptoms and the frequency of current marijuana use: Testing the mediating role of marijuana-use coping motives among active users..  Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs.  70:543-550. 2009
  • Discomfort intolerance: Evaluation of incremental validity for panic-relevant symptoms using 10% carbon dioxide-enriched air provocation..  Journal of anxiety disorders.  23:197-203. 2009
  • Marijuana use, abuse, and dependence: Evaluation of panic responsivity to biological challenge..  Journal of psychoactive drugs.  41:331-336. 2009
  • Relations between anxiety sensitivity, distress tolerance, and fear reactivity to bodily sensations to coping and conformity marijuana use motives among young adult marijuana users..  Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology.  17:31-42. 2009
  • An examination of anxiety sensitivity as a moderator of the relationship between smoking level and posttraumatic stress symptoms among trauma-exposed adults..  Cognitive therapy and research.  32:116-132. 2008
  • Anxiety sensitivity as a moderator of association between smoking status and panic-related processes in a representative sample of adults..  Journal of Psychiatric Resource.  42:69-77. 2008
  • Emotional dysregulation: Association with coping-oriented marijuana use motives among current marijuana users..  Substance use & misuse.  43:1656-1668. 2008
  • Marijuana coping motives interact with marijuana use frequency to predict anxious arousal, panic related catastrophic thinking, and worry among current marijuana users..  Depression and anxiety.  25:862-873. 2008
  • Negative reinforcement/negative affect reduction cigarette smoking outcome expectancies: Incremental validity for anxiety focused on bodily sensations and panic attack symptoms among daily smokers..  Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology.  16:66-76. 2008
  • Panic-relevant predictability preference: A laboratory test..  Journal of abnormal psychology.  117:242-246. 2008
  • Prospective associations between cannabis use, abuse, and dependence and panic attacks and disorder..  Journal of psychiatric research.  42:1017-1023. 2008
  • Use of the Panic Attack Questionnaire-IV to assess non-clinical panic attacks and limited symptom panic attacks in student and community samples..  Journal of anxiety disorders.  22:1159-1171. 2008
  • Associations between psychedelic use, abuse, and dependence and lifetime panic attack history in a representative sample..  Journal of anxiety disorders.  21:730-741. 2007
  • Concurrent associations between anxiety sensitivity and perceived health and health disability among young adult daily smokers.  Cognitive behaviour therapy.  36:1-11. 2007
  • Incremental validity of anxiety sensitivity in relation to marijuana withdrawal symptoms..  Addictive behaviors.  32:1843-1851. 2007
  • Incremental validity of anxiety sensitivity in terms of motivation to quit, reasons for quitting, and barriers to quitting among community-recruited daily smokers..  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.  9:965-975. 2007
  • Incremental validity of coping-oriented marijuana use motives in the prediction of affect-based psychological vulnerability..  Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment.  29:277-288. 2007
  • Marijuana use motives and social anxiety among marijuana using young adults..  Addictive behaviors.  32:2238-2252. 2007
  • Marijuana use motives: A confirmatory test and evaluation among young adult marijuana users.  Addictive behaviors.  32:3122-3130. 2007
  • Marijuana use motives: Concurrent relations to frequency of past 30-day use and anxiety sensitivity among young adult marijuana smokers.  Addictive behaviors.  32:49-62. 2007
  • Posttraumatic stress symptom severity predicts marijuana use coping motives among traumatic event-exposed marijuana users..  Journal of traumatic stress.  20:577-586. 2007
  • Anxiety sensitivity and abstinence duration to smoking..  Journal of Mental Health .  15:659-670. 2006
  • Anxiety sensitivity interacts with marijuana use in the prediction of anxiety symptoms and panic-related catastrophic thinking among daily tobacco users..  Behaviour research and therapy.  44:907-924. 2006
  • Anxiety sensitivity-physical concerns as a moderator of the emotional consequences of emotion suppression during biological challenge: An experimental test using individual growth curve analysis..  Behaviour research and therapy.  44:249-272. 2006
  • Anxiety sensitivity: Concurrent association with negative affect smoking motives and abstinence self-confidence among young adult smokers..  Addictive behaviors.  31:429-439. 2006
  • Associations between age of onset and lifetime history of panic attacks and alcohol use, abuse, and dependence in a representative sample.  Comprehensive psychiatry.  47:342-349. 2006
  • Lifetime associations between cannabis use, abuse, and dependence and panic attacks in a representative sample..  Journal of psychiatric research.  40:477-486. 2006
  • Perceived health moderates the association between smoking rate and panic vulnerability variables among daily smokers..  Depression and anxiety.  23:257-265. 2006
  • Marijuana use among daily tobacco smokers: Relationship to anxiety-related factors..  Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment.  27:279-289. 2005
  • Anxiety sensitivity: Association with intensity of retrospectively-rated smoking-related withdrawal symptoms and motivation to quit..  Cognitive behaviour therapy.  33:114-125. 2004
  • Emotional responding to biological challenge as a function of panic disorder and smoking..  Journal of anxiety disorders.  18:19-32. 2004
  • Evaluating the role of anxiety sensitivity in smoking outcome expectancies among regular smokers..  Cognitive therapy and research.  28:473-486. 2004

• article

  • Marijuana use and abuse..  Principles of addiction: Comprehensive addictive behaviors and disorders.  679-687. 2013
  • Marijuana: An overview of the empirical literature..  Addiction medicine: Science and practice..  1:445-461. 2010
  • Tobacco use and panic psychopathology: Current status and future directions..  Anxiety in health behaviors and physical illness: Contemporary theory and research.  3-28. 2008

• conference poster

  • Maladaptive expectations and motives for cannabis use among veterans: The impact of affective distress..  2013 Annual Convention of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, La Jolla, CA.. 2013
  • The impact of panic and depressive symptoms on cannabis related problems and lapse and relapse among cannabis dependent veterans..  2013 Annual Convention of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, La Jolla, CA.. 2013