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Zale, E. L. (2024). Pain prospectively predicts alcohol use disorder among people living with HIV: A commentary on Palfai et al. (2024). Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, 49(1), 102–105. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.15499
Shayya, A., Williams C. M., & Zale, E. L. (2024). Cross-sectional associations between expectancies for cannabis use and pain in an emerging adult sample. Journal of Drug Education: Substance Abuse Research, and Prevention, 54(2-3), 67-82. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472379241293748
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Polhill, S. E., Lape, E. C., Deyo, A. G., Smit, T., Zvolensky, M. J., Zale, E. L., & Ditre, J. W. (2024). Pain intensity, pain-related anxiety, and hazardous drinking among individuals with PTSD. Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 20(2), 122-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/15504263.2024.2319034
Williams, C. M., Brimhall, K., Mastroleo, N. R., & Zale, E. L. (2023). Associations between alcohol and cannabis use and pain among college student-athletes. Substance Use & Misuse, 59(4), 567-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2023.2287239
Walsh, B., Williams, C. M., & Zale, E. L. (2022). Expectancies for and pleasure from simultaneous alcohol and e-cigarette use among young adults. Substance Use & Misuse, 57(14), 2100-2109. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2022.2136495
Zale, E. L., Williams, C. M., Reynolds, L., & Mastroleo, N. (2022). Examining sex differences in associations between pain and alcohol use among college student-athletes. Substance Use & Misuse, 57(4), 539-547. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2021.2019784
Zale, E. L., Powers, J., & Ditre, J. W. (2021). Cognitive-affective transdiagnostic vulnerability factors associated with alcohol and prescription opioid use in the context of pain. Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, 41(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.35946/arcr.v41.1.08
Ferguson, E., Zale, E. L., Ditre, J. W., Wesolowicz, D., Stennett, B., Robinson, M., & Boissoneault, J. (2021). CANUE: A theoretical model of pain as an antecedent for substance use. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 55(5), 489-502. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaaa072
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Zale, E. L., Maisto, S. A., Hooten, W. M., De Vita, M. J. & Ditre, J. W. (2020). Increasing cessation motivation and treatment engagement among smokers in pain: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 29(6), 593-604. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000424
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Zale, E. L., Dorfman, M. L., Hooten, W. M., Warner, D. O., Zvolensky, M. J., & Ditre, J. W. (2014). Tobacco smoking, nicotine dependence, and patterns of prescription opioid misuse: Results from a nationally representative sample. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 17, 1096-1103. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntu227