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Cynthia L. Arfken, Ph.D.
Associate Professor with Tenure
Room 113
Tel. (313) 993-3490
E-Mail: carfken@med.wayne.edu
Statement of Interests
I am interested in the fields of substance abuse health services and emerging trends with part of my efforts reserved as epidemiologist and biostatistician for the division. To monitor emerging trends, I am the Detroit representative to the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Community Epidemiology Work Group. Locally, I am a member of the Wayne County Fentanyl Work Group and the Overdose Prevention Work Group, whose members include academia, criminal justice, mental health, substance abuse and public health officials. In health services research, I have examined diffusion of therapeutic approaches and impact of multiple funding requirements, such as criminal justice, on programs. Recently, my interest has expanded to include ethnic differences in treatment utilization, especially by Arab Americans.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Arfken CL, Agius E, Dickson MW, Anderson HL, Hegedus AM: Clinicians’ beliefs and awareness of substance abuse treatments in research and non-research affiliated programs. Journal of Drug Issues 2005, 35, 547-558.
- Arfken CL, Agius E, Dickson MW: Clinicians’ information sources for new substance abuse treatment. Addictive Behaviors 2005, 30, 1592-1596.
- Zeman LL, Arfken CL: Decreasing unnecessary care in a psychiatric emergency service. Psychiatric Services 2006, 57, 137-138.
- Kubiak SP, Arfken CL: Treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: the association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatment. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention and Policy 2006, 1-20.
- Arfken CL, Zeman LL, Koch AL: Perceived impact by administrators of psychiatric emergency services after changes in a state’s mental health system. Community Mental Health Journal 2006, 42, 281-290.
- Koch A, Arfken CL, Schuster CR: Characteristics of substance abuse treatment facilities adopting buprenorphine in its initial stage of availability. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2006, 83, 274-278.
- Kubiak SP, Arfken CL: Gender responsivity: considering differences between community dwelling women involved in the criminal justice system and those involved in treatment. Women and Criminal Justice (in press).
- Fuller BE, Rieckmann T, Nunes EV, Miller M, Arfken C, Edmundson E, McCarty D: Organizational readiness for change and opinions toward treatment innovations. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (in press).
- McCarty D, Fuller BE, Arfken C, Miller M, Nunes EV, Edmundson E, Copersino M, Floyd A, Forman R, Laws R, Magruder KM, Oyama M, Prather K, Sindelar J, Wendt WW: Direct care workers in the national drug abuse Clinical Trials Network: Characteristics, opinions, and beliefs. Psychiatric Services (in press).
- Arfken CL, Kubiak SP, Farrag MF: Arab Americans in substance abuse treatment. Alcoholism Quarterly Review (submitted).