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Alan J. Budney

Alan J. Budney PhD

Psychiatry
Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

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Dr. Alan Budney is a Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University in 1989. He was a postdoctoral fellow and faculty member at the University of Vermont from 1990 to 2005, and then was a Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences until he moved to Dartmouth in 2012.

Over the last 20 years he has conducted extensive research on the development and evaluation of innovative behavioral treatments for substance abuse, specializing in cannabis use disorders in adults and adolescents. His clinical research, much conducted in collaboration with Dr. Stanger, has focused on integrating abstinence-based contingency management interventions with more traditional therapies, and using computer-assisted therapies to enhance the cost effectiveness of these approaches.

He has also conducted a series of human laboratory and survey studies characterizing the cannabis withdrawal syndrome. Dr. Budney is a Fellow and Past-President of the Division 28 (Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse) of the American Psychological Association, and is President-Elect of Division 50 (Addictions). He was a member of the substance use disorders working group for the DSM-5, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the College on Problems of Drug Dependence.