Staff Publications & Presentations

Watson, D. P. (2023, October). Results from the POINT pragmatic trial: Assessment of a peer-based emergency department intervention for people who use opioids [Poster presentation]. Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) Conference, New York, NY, United States

Watson, D. P. (2024, June 12). Using cognitive interviews to explore discrepancies in criminal legal system-involved study participants' urine test results and perceived fentanyl exposure [Conference session]. Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) Research Conference, Bethesda, MD, United States. 

Watson, D. P. (2022). Cook County Health Emergency Department Alternatives to Opioids(ED-ALT) Evaluation Report I. Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems.

Watson, D. P., & Andraka-Christou, B. (2025). Introduction to the special issue on legislative-driven responses to the opioid crisis: Expanding research and implementation through federal and state funding. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2025.209636

Watson, D. P., & Bruker, K. (2018, January). Project POINT: Testing linkage to care from the ED. [Invited presentation]. NIDA CTN workshop—Opioid overdose: Effective reversal and opioid use disorder(OUD) treatment engagement by emergency departments. Rockville, MD.

Watson, D. P., & Dewey, J. (2022, November). Formative results from the evaluation of the Cook County Recovery Home Coordinated Entry Project. [Virtual presentation]. NIDA JCOIN Webinar: Recovery housing for justice-involved individuals with opioid use disorder. 

Watson, D. P., & Edwards, R. (2019, April). Leveraging community-academic partnerships to address substance use disorder in a justice-involved population. [Conference session]. Opioid Data to Action. Indianapolis, IN, United States.

Watson, D. P., & Edwards, R. (2016, September). Leveraging community-academic partnerships to address critical health issues. [Conference session]. 2016 Indiana Public Health Conference. Indianapolis, IN.

Watson, D. P., & Gastala, N.(2023, October). Recovery Management Checkups(RMC) for primary care settings: Future directions for an evidence-based substance use treatment and retention intervention. [Conference session] Illinois Primary Healthcare Association Leadership Conference. Schaumburg, IL. United States. 

Watson, D. P., & Gastala, N. (2023, October). Recovery Management Checkups (RMC) for primary care settings: Future directions for an evidence-based substance use treatment and retention intervention [Presentation]. Illinois Primary Healthcare Association Leadership Conference, Schaumburg, IL, United States

Watson, D. P., & George, C. (2009, March). Maneuvering in a changing job market: Older homeless people and employment in Chicago’s changing economy. [Conference session]. Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Chicago, IL.

Watson, D. P., & George, C. C. (2009). Evaluation of the Midwest Harm Reduction Institute’s Harm Reduction Housing Training and Technical Assistance Program. Center for Urban Research and Learning.

Watson, D. P., & Hilvers, J. (2008). An evaluation of IABG’s governance and operations: Findings and recommendations from member surveys and interviews to inform 2009 project planning. Prepared by authors for Heartland Alliance for Health and Human Needs.

Watson, D. P., & Shuman, V. (2018, April). Development and testing of a distance-based Housing First Implementation Strategy. [Conference session]. Housing First Partners Conference, Denver, CO.

Watson, D. P., & Shuman, V. (2014, March). Consumer education: An essential element of Housing First. [Workshop session]. 2014 Housing First Partners Conference, Chicago, IL.

Watson, D. P., Adams, E. L., Omenka, I., Jackson, J., & Chesher, J. (2015, December). Identifying structural-level factors affecting implementation of complex interventions. [Conference session]. 8th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, Washington, D.C.

Watson, D. P., Adams, E. L., Shue, S., Coates, H., McGuire, A., Chesher, J., Jackson, J., & Omenka, I. (2018). Defining the external implementation context: An integrative systematic literature review. BMC Health Services Research, 18, 209. PMCID: PMC5870506

Watson, D. P., Adams, E.,& Jackson, J.(2017). Mental health policy in the United States: Critical reflection and future directions for sociological research. In T. L. Scheid& E. R. Wright(Ed.), A handbook for the study of mental health: Social contexts, theories, and systems (pp. 573-590). Cambridge University Press.

Watson, D. P., Ahonen, E. Q., Shuman, V., Brown, M., Tsemberis, S., Huynh, P., Ouyang, F., & Xu, H. (2018, December). Testing of an implementation strategy for the Housing First model: Outcomes from a mixed methods study. [Conference session]. 10th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, Washington, D.C, United States. 

Watson, D. P., Ahonen, E. Q., Shuman, V., Brown, M., Tsemberis, S., Huynh, P., Ouyang, F., & Xu, H. (2018). The Housing First Technical Assistance and Training (HFTAT) Implementation Strategy: Outcomes from a mixed methods study of three programs. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, & Policy, 13, 32. PMCID: PMC6151006

Watson, D. P., Ahonen, E. Q., Shuman, V., Brown, M., Tsemberis, S., Huynh, P., Ouyang, F.,& Xu, H.(2018). The housing first technical assistance and training(HFTAT) implementation strategy: outcomes from a mixed methods study of three programs. Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy, 13(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-018-0172-3

Watson, D. P., Andraka-Christou, B., Clarke, T., & Wiegandt, J. (2020). Introduction to the special issue on innovative interventions and approaches to expand medication assisted treatment: Seizing research opportunities made available by the opioid STR program. Journal of substance abuse treatment, 108, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2019.10.004

Watson, D. P., Brucker, K., McGuire, A., Snow-Hill, N. L., Xu, H., Cohen, A., Campbell, M., Robison, L., Sightes, E., Buhner, R., O'Donnell, D.,& Kline, J. A.(2020). Replication of an emergency department-based recovery coaching intervention and pilot testing of pragmatic trial protocols within the context of Indiana's Opioid State Targeted Response plan. Journal of substance abuse treatment, 108, 88–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2019.06.002

Watson, D. P., Buchanan, V., Brown, B., Inman, H., & Freeman, S. (2013, October). The‘little things’ that make recovery work: An evaluation of Indiana’s Access to Recovery(ATR) Program. [Conference session]. 2013 Addiction Health Services Research Conference, Portland, OR.

Watson, D. P., Clark, K., Dennis, M. L., Grella, C. E., & Hart, M. K. (2025).“They don’t give you no note if it’s got fentanyl”: Using cognitive interviews to understand self-report and urine drug screen discrepancies. Substance Use: Research and Treatment, 19, 29768357251316220. https://doi.org/10.1177/2976835725131622

Watson, D. P., Dennis, M. L., & Grella, C. E. (2024, July). Using cognitive interviews to explore discrepancies in criminal legal system-involved study participants’ urine test results and perceived fentanyl exposure. [Conference Session]. 38th International Academy of Law and Mental Health Congress, Barcelona, Spain.

Watson, D. P., Dennis, M. L., Messmer, S., Waller, R. C., Kang, N., & Grella, C. E. (2026, April 24). Supporting ASAM’s Level 1.0 Remission Monitoring through Recovery Management Checkups [Workshop session]. ASAM 57th Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.

Watson, D. P., Dewey, J., Sarapas, C., & Taylor, L. (2023, December). Cook County Health community health workers for COVID response and resilient communities: Year 2 evaluation report. Chestnut Health Systems

Watson, D. P., Dewey, J., Sarapas, C., Taylor, L. (2023). Cook County Health Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities Year 2 Evaluation Report. Lighthouse Institute, Chestnut Health Systems.

Watson, D. P., Etminan, S., & Gastala, N. (2023). Sublingual buprenorphine-naloxone exposure and dental disease. JAMA, 329(14), 1223–1224. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2803524

Watson, D. P., Franceschini, D., Swartz, J. A., Dewey, J., Mackesy-Amiti, M. E., Taylor, L., Staton, M., Zhao, P., Messmer, S., Jimenez, A. D., & Gastala, N.(2024, June) Syringe Exchange-Based Telemedicine Linkage to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Results from a mixed method randomized trial of the STAMINA intervention. [Conference session]. College on Problems of Drug Dependence 86th Annual Scientific Meeting, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Watson, D. P., George, C., Orwat, J., & Hoffman, M. (2010). Formative evaluation of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s Treatment Coordinator Pilot Program, phase 2. Center for Urban Research and Learning.

Watson, D. P., Greene, M., & Wright, E. R. (2013, August). Co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders in Indiana: Epidemiological profile of a treatment population. [Conference session]. 2013 meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, NY.

Watson, D. P., Hudson, M., & Taylor, L. (2025, October). Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities evaluation report: Year 4 extension period. Chestnut Health Systems Lighthouse Institute, Chicago, IL.

Watson, D. P., Jacobs, E.,& Tobin, M. (2007). Evaluation of the University of Michigan’s youth evaluation workshop. Prepared by authors for the Center for Urban Research and Learning.

Watson, D. P., Kitchin, K., Power, T., & Morton, F. (2017, May). Housing First: Keeping it real. [Invited Workshop]. CSH Supportive Housing Summit 2017. Denver, CO.

Watson, D. P., Leech, T., Greene, M., Childress, S., Nannery, R., & Adams, E. (2018). Indiana Partnerships for Success young adult baseline survey: Results related to alcohol and prescription drug use. University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Center for Health Engagement and Equity Research.

Watson, D. P., McCranie, A,& Wright, E. R.(2014). Everything old is new again: Recovery and serious mental illness. In R. J. Johnson, R. J. Turner, and B. G. Link(Eds.), Sociology of Mental Health: Selected Topics from Forty Years(pp. 125-139). New York, NY: Springer.

Watson, D. P., McGuire, A., Buhner, B., & Brucker, K. (2019, September). A hybrid type 1 design to facilitate rapid testing and translation of an emergency department-based opioid use disorder intervention through academic-state government partnership. [Conference session]. 5th Biennial Society for Implementation Research Conference, Seattle, WA, United States.

Watson, D. P., Orwat, J., Wagner, D. E., Shuman, V.,& Tolliver, R.(2013). The Housing First Model(HFM) fidelity index: designing and testing a tool for measuring integrity of housing programs that serve active substance users. Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy, 8, 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-8-16

Watson, D. P., Orwat, J., Wagner, D., Shuman, V., & Tolliver, R. (2013). The Housing First Model (HFM) Fidelity Index: Designing and testing a tool for measuring integrity of housing programs that serve active substance users. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 8, 16. PMCID: PMC3655861

Watson, D. P., Phalen, P., Medcalf, S., Messmer, S., & McGuire, A. (2023, May). Factors affecting successful post-discharge engagement of emergency department patients with opioid use history who received telehealth recovery coaching services. [Conference session]. World Congress on Public Health, Rome, Italy.

Watson, D. P., Phalen, P., Medcalf, S., Messmer, S.,& McGuire, A.(2023). Evaluation of post-discharge engagement for emergency department patients with opioid use history who received telehealth recovery coaching services. Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy, 18(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-023-00523-4

Watson, D. P., Phillips Steele, L., Burgess, M., & Kennedy, K. (2016, April). Housing First/Harm reduction: Recent Innovations. [Invited Workshop]. Indiana Balance of State Continuum of Care Development Day Training. Indianapolis, IN.

Watson, D. P., Ray, B., Eliacin, J., Huynh, P., & Robison, L. (2017). Indiana Medication Assisted Treatment Program(IMAP): 3rd formative evaluation report. Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Center for Community Health Engagement and Equity Research.

Watson, D. P., Ray, B., Eliacin, J., Huynh, P., Robison, L., & Jackson, J.(2017). Indiana Medication Assisted Treatment Program (IMAP): 2nd formative evaluation report. Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Watson, D. P., Ray, B., Eliacin, J., Irby-Shasanmi, A., Jackson, J., & Robison, L.(2016). Indiana Medication Assisted Treatment Program (IMAP): 1st formative evaluation report. Center for Health Policy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Watson, D. P., Ray, B., Huynh, P., Robison, L., & Eliacin, J. (2018). Indiana Medication Assisted Treatment Program(IMAP): 4th formative evaluation report. Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Center for Community Health Engagement and Equity Research.

Watson, D. P., Ray, B., Huynh, P., Robison, L., & Sightes, E. (2019, May). Indiana Good Samaritan law knowledge and compliance: Lay responder postcard meeting results. [Conference session]. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Prevention for States Annual Grantee Meeting. Atlanta, GA.

Watson, D. P., Ray, B., Huynh, P., Robison, L., Eliacin, J., & Campbell, M. (2018). Indiana Medication Assisted Treatment Program(IMAP): Final summative report. Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Center for Community Health Engagement and Equity Research.