Email: kcropsey@beapsy1.his.uab.edu
Specialization: Substance Abuse, Forensic Psychology
Faculty Title: Associate Professor
Graduate School: Indiana State University
Internship: Virginia Commonwealth University
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Forensic Psychology at University of Mississippi Medical Center; Substance Abuse Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University
Licensure: Clinical Psychologist in Alabama
Certifications: Certified Forensic Evaluator for Commonwealth of Virginia
Patient Populations: Criminal justice and substance abuse populations
Funded Research:
March 2008 - October 2008:
Site Principal Investigator, Treatment Enhancement Study of Opioid Addiction Using Depot Naltrexone, Subaward from University of Pennsylvania.
April 2007 - March 2011:
Co-Investigator, HIV, drugs, and
prisoners: Barriers to epidemiologic and
intervention research, funded by National
Institutes on Drug Abuse (R01DA020357).
May 2007 - April 2009:
Principal Investigator, Relapse
prevention to reduce HIV among women
prisoners, funded by National Institutes on
Drug Abuse (R21DA019838).
Completed Funding -
September 2002 - August 2008:
Principal Investigator, Patient-Oriented
Career Development Award (K23), Smoking
research with incarcerated females, funded
by National Institutes on Drug Abuse (K23DA15447).
Recent Publications:
Rhodes, A.G., Taxman, F.S., Friedmann, P.D., Cropsey, K.L. (in press). HCV in Incarcerated Populations: An Analysis of Gender and Criminality on Risk. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.
Cropsey, K.L., Jones, G.O., Jackson, D.O., Villalobos, G.C., Stitzer, M.L. (in press). Psychiatric and substance abuse characteristics of smoking and non-smoking female prisoners. Journal of Behavioral Analysis-Offender and Victim Treatment and Prevention.
Taxman, F.S., Cropsey, K.L., Melnick, G., Perdoni, M.L. (2008). COD services in community correctional settings: An examination of organizational factors that affect service delivery. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 26, 35-55.
Cropsey, K.L., Eldridge, G.D., Weaver, M.F., Villalobos, G.C., Stitzer, M.L., Best, A.M. (2008). Smoking cessation intervention for female prisoners: addressing an urgent public health need. American Journal of Public Health. Aug 13. [Epub ahead of print].
Wunsch, M.J., Cropsey, K.L., Campbell, E.D. Knisely, J.S. (2008). OxyContin® Use and Misuse in Three Populations: Substance Abuse Patients, Pain Patients, and Criminal Justice Participants. Journal of Opioid Management, 4, 73-79.
Knisely, J., Wunsch, M., Cropsey, K., Campbell, E. (2008). Prescription Opioid Misuse Index: A Brief Questionnaire to Assess Misuse. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Jul 25. [Epub ahead of print].
Cropsey, K.L., Masho, S.W., Shiang, R., Sikka, V., & Hampton, C.L. (2008). Why do faculty leave? Reasons for faculty attrition from a medical school: four year results, Journal of Women's Health, Jul 26. [Epub ahead of print].
Cropsey, K.L., Weaver, M.F., Dupre, M.A. (2008). Predictors of involvement in the juvenile justice system among psychiatric hospitalized adolescents. Addictive Behaviors, 33, 942-948.
Ingersoll, K.S., Cropsey, K.L., & Heckman, C.J. (2008). A test of motivational plus nicotine replacement interventions for HIV positive smokers. AIDS and Behavior. (epub 2007 Dec 8).
Cropsey, K.L., Linker, J.A., & Waite, D. (2008). An analysis of racial and sex differences for smoking among adolescents in a juvenile correctional center. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 92, 156-163.
Taxman, F.S., Cropsey, K.L., Young, D., Wexler, H. (2007). Screening, assessment and referral practices in adult correctional settings: a national perspective. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34, 1216-1235.
Weaver, M.F., Dupre, M.A., Cropsey, K.L., Koch, J.R., Sood, B.A., Wiley, J.L., Balster, R.L. (2007). Addiction epidemiology in adolescents presenting for inpatient psychiatric treatment, Addictive Behaviors (epub ahead of print).
Campbell, S.J., Cropsey, K.L., Matthews, C.A. (2007). Intrauterine device use in a high-risk population: Experience from an urban university clinic, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 197, 193-196.
Wunsch, M.J., Knisely, J.S., Cropsey, K.L., Campbell, E.D. Schnoll, S.H. (2007). Women physicians and addiction, Journal of Addictive Diseases, 26, 35-43.
Taxman, F.S., Cropsey, K.L. (2007). Women and the criminal justice system: Improving outcomes through criminal justice and non-criminal justice responses. Women and Criminal Justice, 17, 5-26.
Heckman, C.J., Cropsey, K.L., Olds-Davis, T. (2007). PTSD treatment in correctional settings: a brief review of the empirical literature and suggestions for future research. Psychotherapy, 44, 46-53.
Cropsey, K.L., Wexler, H.K., Melnick, G., Taxman, F.S., Young, D.W. (2007). Specialized Prisons and Services: Results from a National Survey. Prison Journal, 87, 58-85.