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Scientist and Lecturer

reif@brandeis.edu Heller  259 781-736-3924

Expertise

Health services research, with a focus on substance use disorders (substance abuse, addiction, alcohol, drugs) and other behavioral health.

Courses

  • HS 414f - Ethical Issues in Social Science Research
  • HSSP 115b - Perspectives on Behavioral Health: Alcohol, Drugs, and Mental Health

Scholarship

  • Garnick, D. W., Horgan, C. M., Reif, S., Merrick, E. L., Hodgkin, D.. "Management of behavioral health provider networks in private health plans." J Ambul Care Manage 31. 4 (2008): 330-41.
  • Horgan, C. M., Reif, S., Hodgkin, D., Garnick, D. W., Merrick, E. L.. "Availability of addiction medications in private health plans." J Subst Abuse Treat 34. 2 (2008): 147-156.
  • Merrick, E. L., Horgan, C. M., Garnick, D. W., Reif, S., Stewart, M. T.. "Accessing Specialty Behavioral Health Treatment in Private Health Plans." J Behav Health Serv Res (2008).
  • Reif, Sharon; Horgan, Constance M.; Ritter, Grant A.. "Hispanics in specialty treatment for substance use disorders." Journal of Drug Issues 38. 1 (2008): 311-334.
  • Thomas, C. P., Reif, S., Haq, S., Wallack, S. S., Hoyt, A., Ritter, G. A.. "Use of buprenorphine for addiction treatment: perspectives of addiction specialists and general psychiatrists." Psychiatr Serv 59. 8 (2008): 909-16.
  • Wallack, S. S., Thomas, C. P., Martin, T. C., Chilingerian, J., Reif, S.. "Substance Abuse Treatment Organizations as Mediators of Social Policy: Slowing the Adoption of a Congressionally Approved Medication." J Behav Health Serv Res (2008).
  • Angarita, G.A., Reif, S., Pirard, S., Lee, S., Sharon, E., Gastfriend, D.R. . "No-show for treatment in substance abuse patients with comorbid symptomatology: Validity results from a controlled trial of the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria." Journal of Addiction Medicine 1. 2 (2007): 79-87.
  • Horgan, C.M., Merrick, E., Reif, S., Stewart, M.. "Data Points: Internet-based Behavioral Health Services in Health Plans." Psychiatric Services 58. 3 (2007): 307.
  • Reif, S., Thomas, C.P., Wallack, Stanley S.. "Factors determining how early adopter physicians use buprenorphine in treatment." Journal of Addiction Medicine 1. 4 (2007): 205-212.
  • Ritter, G., Reif, S., Gadzuk, A., Krenzke, T., Mohadjer, L., Lee, M.T., Horgan, C.M.. "Incentive Effects on Cooperation Rates and Sample Composition in the Alcohol and Drug Services Study." Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 30. 2-3 (2005): 171-189.
  • Lee, M.T., Reif, S., Ritter, G., Levine, H.J., Horgan, C.M.. Alcohol and Drug Services Study Phase II: Client Record Abstract Report. Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Heller School, Brandeis University, for SAMHSA. Rockville, MD: 2004.
  • Lee, Margaret T., Reif, Sharon, Ritter, Grant A., Levine, Helen J., Horgan, Constance M.. Alcohol and Drug Services Study Phase II: Client Record Abstract Report. SAMHSA. Rockville, MD: 2004.
  • Levine, H.J., Reif, S., Lee, M.T., Ritter, G., Horgan, C.M.. Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS). The National Treatment System: Outpatient Methadone Facilities. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Rockville, MD: 2004.
  • Levine, Helen J., Reif, Sharon, Lee, Margaret T., Ritter, Grant A., Horgan, Constance M..
  • Reif, S.. "The most critical unresolved issue associated with contemporary vocational rehabilitation of substance users." Substance Use & Misuse 39. 13&14 (2004): 2629-2630.
  • Reif, Sharon, Horgan, Constance M., Ritter, Grant A., Tompkins, Christopher P.. "The impact of employment counseling on substance user treatment participation and outcomes." Substance Use & Misuse 39. 13&14 (2004): 2391-2424.
  • Shepard, Donald S., Reif, Sharon. "The value of vocational rehabilitation in substance abuse treatment: A cost-effectiveness framework." Substance Use & Misuse 39. 13&14 (2004): 2581-2609.
  • Gastfriend, D.R., Reif, S., Baker, S.L., Najavits, L.M.. "Assessment (2003)." Principles of Addiction Medicine. 3rd ed. Ed. Graham, A.W., Schultz, T.K., Mayo-Smith, M.F., Ries, R.K., Wilford, B.B.. Chevy Chase, MD: American Society of Addiction Medicine, 2003. 373-382.
  • Gastfriend, D.R., Reif, S., Baker, S.L., Najavits, L.M.. "Assessment." Principles of Addiction Medicine, 3rd edition. Ed. Graham, Schultz, Mayo-Smith, Ries, Wilford. Washington, D.C.: American Society of Addiction Medicine, 2003. 373-382.
  • Gastfriend, D.R., Reif, S., Baker, S.L., Najavits, L.M.. "Assessment." Principles of Addiction Medicine, 3rd edition. Ed. Graham, Schultz, Mayo-Smith, Ries, Wilford. Washington, D.C.: American Society of Addiction Medicine, 2003. 373-382.
  • Lee, M.T., Reif, S., Ritter, G., Levine, H.J., Marsden, M.E., Horgan, C.M.. Treatment Services and Staffing. In: Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): The National Substance Abuse Treatment System: Facilities, Clients, Services, and Staffing (online only). prepared by the Schneider Institute for Health Policy - ADSS Phase I Report Series. Rockville, MD: 2003.
  • Lee, Margaret T., Reif, Sharon, Ritter, Grant A., Levine, Helen J., Marsden, Mary Ellen, Horgan, Constance M.. "Treatment Services and Staffing." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): The National Substance Abuse Treatment System: Facilities, Clients, Services, and Staffing. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Available online: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/ADSS/ADSSorg.pdf, 2003
  • Lee, Margaret T., Reif, Sharon, Ritter, Grant A., Levine, Helen J., Marsden, Mary Ellen, Horgan, Constance M.. "Treatment Services and Staffing." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): The National Substance Abuse Treatment System: Facilities, Clients, Services, and Staffing. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Available online: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/ADSS/ADSSorg.pdf, 2003
  • Levine, H. J., Turner, W., Reif, S., Janas, D., Gastfriend, D. R.. "Determining service variations between and within ASAM levels of care." J Addict Dis 22 Suppl 1. (2003): 9-25.
  • Levine, H. J., Turner, W., Reif, S., Janas, D., Gastfriend, D. R.. "Determining service variations between and within ASAM levels of care." J Addict Dis 22 Suppl 1. (2003): 9-25.
  • Levine, H.J., Reif, S., Ritter, G., Lee, M.T., Marsden, M.E., Horgan, C.M.. Organizational Characteristics of Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities. In: Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): The National Substance Abuse Treatment System: Facilities, Clients, Services, and Staffing.. Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Heller School, Brandeis University. Waltham, MA: 2003.
  • Levine, H.J., Ritter, G., Krenske, T., Legum, S.E., Carusi, C., Mohadjer, L., Reif, S., Lee, M.T., Horgan, C.M.. Phase II Methodology - Facility Administrator Interview and Client Record Abstraction. In: Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS) Methodology Report: Phases I, II and III (online only). Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Rockville, MD: 2003.
  • Levine, Helen J., Grant A. Ritter, Thomas Krenzke, Stanley E. Legum, Charles Carusi, Leyla Mohadjer, Sharon Reif, Margaret T. Lee, Constance M. Horgan. "Phase II Methodology Facility Administrator Interview and Client Record Abstraction." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS) Methodology Report: Phases I, II and III. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Available online: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/ADSS/ADSSmethods.pdf, 2003
  • Levine, Helen J., Grant A. Ritter, Thomas Krenzke, Stanley E. Legum, Charles Carusi, Leyla Mohadjer, Sharon Reif, Margaret T. Lee, Constance M. Horgan. "Phase II Methodology Facility Administrator Interview and Client Record Abstraction." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS) Methodology Report: Phases I, II and III. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Available online: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/ADSS/ADSSmethods.pdf, 2003
  • Levine, Helen J., Reif, Sharon, Ritter, Grant A., Lee, Margaret T., Marsden, Mary Ellen, Horgan, Constance. "Organizational characteristics of substance abuse treatment facilities." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): The National Substance Abuse Treatment System: Facilities, Clients, Services, and Staffing. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Available online: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/ADSS/ADSSorg.pdf, 2003
  • Levine, Helen J., Reif, Sharon, Ritter, Grant A., Lee, Margaret T., Marsden, Mary Ellen, Horgan, Constance. "Organizational characteristics of substance abuse treatment facilities." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): The National Substance Abuse Treatment System: Facilities, Clients, Services, and Staffing. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Available online: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/ADSS/ADSSorg.pdf, 2003
  • Marsden, M.E., Reif, S., Pieroni, M., Levine, H.J., Lee, M.T., Ritter, G., Horgan, C.M.. Client Populations in Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities. In: Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): The National Substance Abuse Treatment System: Facilities, Clients, Services, and Staffing (online only). Schneider Instititute for Health Policy, Heller School, Brandeis University. Waltham, MA: 2003.
  • Marsden, Mary Ellen, Reif, Sharon, Pieroni, Maria, Levine, Helen J., Lee, Margaret T., Ritter, Grant A., Horgan, Constance M.. "Client populations in substance abuse treatment facilities." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): The National Substance Abuse Treatment System: Facilities, Clients, Services, and Staffing. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Available online: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/ADSS/ADSSorg.pdf, 2003
  • Marsden, Mary Ellen, Reif, Sharon, Pieroni, Maria, Levine, Helen J., Lee, Margaret T., Ritter, Grant A., Horgan, Constance M.. "Client populations in substance abuse treatment facilities." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): The National Substance Abuse Treatment System: Facilities, Clients, Services, and Staffing. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Available online: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/ADSS/ADSSorg.pdf, 2003
  • Ritter, G., Carusi, C., Krenzke, T., Legum, S.E., Mohadjer, L., Reif, S., Lee, M.T., Horgan, C.M.. Phase III Methodology - Client Follow-Up Study. In: Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): Methodology Report: Phases I, II, and III (online only). U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Rockville, MD: 2003.
  • Ritter, G., Levine, H.J., Mohadjer, L., Krenzke, T., Lee, M.T., Reif, S., Horgan, C.M.. Phase I Methodology - ADSS Facility Survey. In: Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): Methodology Report: Phases I, II, and III (online only). U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Rockville MD: 2003.
  • Ritter, Grant A., Carusi, Charles, Krenzke, Thomas, Legum, Stanley E., Mohadjer, Leyla, Reif, Sharon, Lee, Margaret T., Horgan, Constance M.. "Phase III Methodology¿Client Follow-Up Study." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): Methodology Report: Phases I, II, and III. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Available online: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/ADSS/ADSSmethods.pdf, 2003
  • Ritter, Grant A., Carusi, Charles, Krenzke, Thomas, Legum, Stanley E., Mohadjer, Leyla, Reif, Sharon, Lee, Margaret T., Horgan, Constance M.. "Phase III Methodology¿Client Follow-Up Study." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): Methodology Report: Phases I, II, and III. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. Available online: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/ADSS/ADSSmethods.pdf, 2003
  • Ritter, Grant A., Levine, Helen J., Mohadjer, Leyla, Krenzke, Thomas, Lee, Margaret T., Reif, Sharon, Horgan, Constance M.. "Phase I Methodology¿ADSS Facility Survey." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): Methodology Report: Phases I, II, and III. SAMHSA, 2003
  • Ritter, Grant A., Levine, Helen J., Mohadjer, Leyla, Krenzke, Thomas, Lee, Margaret T., Reif, Sharon, Horgan, Constance M.. "Phase I Methodology¿ADSS Facility Survey." Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS): Methodology Report: Phases I, II, and III. SAMHSA, 2003
  • Horgan, C.M. , Lee, M.T., Reif, S. , Ritter, G. , Shepard, D.S.. Drug Abuse Treatment under Managed Care. Poster Presentation. Proc. of Abstracts, XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, Spain,. 2002.
  • Reif, Sharon. The Impact of Ancillary Services on Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes. Diss. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA: Heller School of Social Policy and Management, 2002.
  • Ritter, G., Shepard, D.S., Beaston-Blaakman, A., Reif, S., Horgan, C.M.. Are Incentive Payments Cost-Effective in Surveying a Hard-to-interview Population: the Experience in ADSS. Proc. of 130th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. 2002.
  • Horgan, C.M., Reif, S., Ritter, G., Lee, M.T.. "Organizational and Financial Issues in the Delivery of Substance Abuse Treatment Services." Recent Developments in Alcoholism: Services Research in the Era of Managed Care. vol. 15 Ed. Galanter, M.. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001. 9-26.
  • Horgan, Constance M., Reif, Sharon, Ritter, Grant A., Lee, Margaret T.. "Organizational and financial issues in the delivery of substance abuse treatment services." Recent Developments in Alcoholism, Vol. 15: Services Research in the Era of Managed Care. Ed. Galanter, M.. New York: Plenum Publishing, 2001. 9-26.
  • Lee, Margaret T., Reif, Sharon, Ritter, Grant A., Levine, Helen J., Horgan, Constance M.. "Access to services in the substance abuse treatment system: Variations by facility characteristics." Recent Developments in Alcoholism, Vol. 15: Services Research in the Era of Managed Care. Ed. Galanter, Marc. New York: Plenum Publishing, 2001. 137-156.
  • Turner, Winston M., Turner, Kingsley H., Reif, Sharon, Gutowski, William E., Gastfriend, David R.. "Feasibility of multidimensional substance abuse treatment matching: Automating the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria." Drug and Alcohol Dependence 55. (1999): 35-43.
  • Najavits, L. M., Gastfriend, D. R., Barber, J. P., Reif, S., Muenz, L. R., Blaine, J., Frank, A., Crits-Christoph, P., Thase, M., Weiss, R. D.. "Cocaine dependence with and without PTSD among subjects in the National Institute on Drug Abuse Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study." Am J Psychiatry 155. 2 (1998): 214-9.
  • Najavits, L. M., Weiss, R. D., Reif, S., Gastfriend, D. R., Siqueland, L., Barber, J. P., Butler, S. F., Thase, M., Blaine, J.. "The Addiction Severity Index as a screen for trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder." J Stud Alcohol 59. 1 (1998): 56-62.
  • Beinecke, R.H., Shepard, D.S., Reif, S.. The Mich-Mass Massachusetts Medicaid Alcohol Provider Survey: Year One. Proc. of Abstracts, 125th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. Indianapolis, IN: 1997.
  • Gastfriend, David R., Mendelson, Jack H., Mello, Nancy K., Teoh, Siew K., Reif, Sharon. "Buprenorphine pharmacotherapy for concurrent heroin and cocaine dependence." American Journal on Addictions 2. 4 (1993): 269-278.
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Profile

Sharon Reif, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Deputy Director of its Institute for Behavioral Health, and Associate Director of its National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) doctoral training program. She teaches Heller's Research Ethics module and co-leads the behavioral health doctoral seminar. Dr. Reif has over 17 years of experience conducting research related to substance abuse treatment, focused on the treatment system, what happens to clients during and after treatment, and how that relates to the providers who treat them. Currently, she is the deputy director for the Brandeis/Harvard NIDA Research Center, and leads a study within the NIDA Center that examines the role of clinician characteristics for treatment quality. Dr. Reif was recently involved with studies relating financing and cost issues to access to substance abuse treatment and of factors influencing the adoption of buprenorphine in office-based practice, and is a co-investigator on several other ongoing studies.

 

Degrees

Brandeis University
Ph.D.

Brandeis University
M.A.

Grinnell College
B.A.

Awards and Honors

  • NIAAA Doctoral Training Grant (1996)