# Should screening and treatment strategies for unhealthy alcohol misuse in HIV-infected persons vary with smoking, depression, and substance abuse?

> **NIH NIH R01** · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2020 · $666,609

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract:
 An emerging body of work shows that unhealthy alcohol use substance use, smoking, and
depression often co-occur in HIV-infected patients. In a large multisite observational study of
aging and HIV, unhealthy alcohol use, substance use smoking, and depression were common
among those with HIV and exhibited striking temporal concordance, often remitting and
recurring together. For example, greater alcohol use decreases the odds of smoking cessation.
While unhealthy alcohol use, substance use, smoking, and depression often co-occur, their
screening and treatment does not. Screening and treatment strategies for these conditions are
typically specified separately and enacted separately because of a multitude of factors,
including distinct clinical guidelines, varying strength of evidence underlying those guidelines
and distinct providers and programs for the treatment of each condition. As a result, patients
who are screened for one may not be screened for another, and patients who are treated for
one may not be treated for another.
We propose developing a decision-analytic model to evaluate beneficial effects as well as
potentially harmful effects and resource implications of integrated screening and treatment.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9977056
- **Project number:** 5R01AA024706-05
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Ronald Scott Braithwaite
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $666,609
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-09-15 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9977056

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9977056, Should screening and treatment strategies for unhealthy alcohol misuse in HIV-infected persons vary with smoking, depression, and substance abuse? (5R01AA024706-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9977056. Licensed CC0.

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