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Positions
Professor
- Organization:
- West Virginia University School of Medicine
- Department:
- Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry
- Classification:
- Faculty
Professor
- Organization:
- West Virginia University School of Public Health
- Department:
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Classification:
- Faculty
Education
- MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2001
- PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2005
Publications
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2024 Allen LD, Pollini RA, Vaglienti R, Powell D. Opioid Prescribing Patterns After Imposition of Setting-Specific Limits on Prescription Duration. JAMA Health Forum 2024;5(1):e234731. PMID: 38241057. PMCID: PMC10799257. DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.4731 Sedney CL, Okakpu U, Dekeseredy P, Pollini RA, Rosenow JM, Haggerty T. Back Pain in the Era of Opioid Restriction and Implications for Neurosurgeons Based on Qualitative Findings From a Rural State. Cureus 2024;16(4):e57389. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.57389 2023 Haggerty T, Sedney CL, Dekeseredy P, Capehart KD, Pollini RA. ”You didn’t have a choice but to be on your train. The train was moving.”: West Virginia pharmacists’ perspectives on opioid dispensing during the evolution of the opioid crisis. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association 2023;63(3):863-872. PMID: 36870937. DOI: 10.1016/j.japh.2023.02.004 Ostrach B, Hill L, Carpenter D, Pollini R. Addressing buprenorphine bottlenecks in the context of MAT Act implementation: A shared responsibility. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association 2023. PMID: 37149144. DOI: 10.1016/j.japh.2023.04.029 Slocum S, Paquette CE, Pollini RA. Drug treatment perspectives and experiences among family and friends of people who use illicit opioids: A mixed methods study. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment 2023;148:209023. PMID: 36940779. DOI: 10.1016/j.josat.2023.209023 Slocum S, Paquette CE, Walley AY, Pollini RA. Civil commitment perspectives and experiences among friends and family of people who use illicit opioids in Massachusetts, USA. Internal Journal of Drug Policy 2023;117:104074. PMID: 37244144. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104074 2022 Chatterjee A, Yan S, Xuan Z, Waye KM, Lambert AM, Green TC, Stopka TJ, Pollini RA, Morgan JR, Walley AY. Broadening access to naloxone: Community predictors of standing order naloxone distribution in Massachusetts. Drug Alcohol Depend 2022;230:109190. PMID: 34864356. PMCID: PMC8714703. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109190 Haggerty T, Sedney CL, Dekeseredy P, Nwafor D, Brownstein HH, Caretta MA, Pollini RA. Pain Management During West Virginia's Opioid Crisis. J Am Board Fam Med 2022;35(5):940-950. PMID: 36257694. DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2022.05.220097 Minc SD, Chandanabhumma PP, Sedney CL, Haggerty TS, Davidov DM, Pollini RA. Mixed methods research: A primer for the vascular surgeon. Semin Vasc Surg 2022;35(4):447-455. PMID: 36414361. DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2022.09.003 Ozga JE, Paquette C, Syvertsen JL, Pollini RA. Mobile phone and internet use among people who inject drugs: Implications for mobile health interventions. Subst Abus 2022;43(1):592-597. PMID: 34491889. PMCID: PMC9536021. DOI: 10.1080/08897077.2021.1975871 Ozga JE, Syvertsen JL, Pollini RA. Hepatitis C antibody prevalence, correlates and barriers to care among people who inject drugs in Central California. J Viral Hepat 2022;29(7):518-528. PMID: 35357738. DOI: 10.1111/jvh.13677 Ozga JE, Syvertsen JL, Zweifler JA, Pollini RA. A community-based study of abscess self-treatment and barriers to medical care among people who inject drugs in the United States. Health Soc Care Community 2022;30(5):1798-1808. PMID: 34469034. PMCID: PMC8885857. DOI: 10.1111/hsc.13559 Pollini RA, Ozga JE, Joyce R, Xuan Z, Walley AY. Limited access to pharmacy-based naloxone in West Virginia: Results from a statewide purchase trial. Drug Alcohol Depend 2022;231:109259. PMID: 34998246. PMCID: PMC8810724. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109259 Pollini RA, Slocum S, Ozga J, Joyce R, Xuan Z, Green TC, Walley AY. Pharmacists' experiences with a statewide naloxone standing order program in Massachusetts: a mixed methods study. J Am Pharm Assoc 2022;62(1):157-166. PMID: 34511372. PMCID: PMC8742759. DOI: 10.1016/j.japh.2021.08.020 Pollini RA, Slocum S, Ozga JE, Joyce R, Xuan Z, Green TC, Walley AY. Pharmacy naloxone codispensing: A mixed methods study of practices and perspectives under a statewide standing order program. J Am Pharm Assoc 2022;62(5):1546-1554. PMID: 35450833. PMCID: PMC9464657. DOI: 10.1016/j.japh.2022.03.015 Sedney CL, Haggerty T, Dekeseredy P, Nwafor D, Caretta MA, Brownstein HH, Pollini RA. "The DEA would come in and destroy you": a qualitative study of fear and unintended consequences among opioid prescribers in WV. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 2022;17(1):19. PMID: 35272687. PMCID: PMC8908632. DOI: 10.1186/s13011-022-00447-5 Slocum S, Ozga JE, Joyce R, Walley AY, Pollini RA. If we build it, will they come? Perspectives on pharmacy-based naloxone among family and friends of people who use opioids: a mixed methods study. BMC Public Health 2022;22(1):735. PMID: 35418048. PMCID: PMC9006069. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13078-z 2021 Clinton AJ, Pollini RA. Using positive empathy interventions to reduce stigma toward people who inject drugs. Frontiers in Psychology 2021;12:616729. PMID: 34305698. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616729 Friedman J, Syvertsen JL, Bourgois P, Bui A, Beletsky L, Pollini R. Intersectional structural vulnerability to abusive policing among people who inject drugs: A mixed methods assessment in California’s central valley. International Journal of Drug Policy 2021;87:102981. PMID: 33129133. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102981 Pollini RA, Ozga JE, Blanchard D, Syvertsen JL. Consider the Source: Associations between Syringe Sources and Risky Injection Behaviors in California's Central Valley. Subst Use Misuse 2021;56(13):2007-16. PMID: 34379030. DOI: 10.1080/10826084.2021.1963987 Pollini RA, Paquette CE, Drvar T, Marshalek P, Ang-Rabanes M, Feinberg J, Haut MW. A qualitative assessment of discharge against medical advice among patients hospitalized for injection-related bacterial infections in West Virginia. International Journal of Drug Policy 2021;94:103206. PMID: 33765516. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103206 Pollini RA, Paquette CE, Slocum S, LeMire D. ’It’s just basically a box full of disease’-navigating sterile syringe scarcity in a rural New England state. Addiction 2021;116(1):107-115. PMID: 32415706. DOI: 10.1111/add.15113 Sedney CL, Khodaverdi M, Pollini R, Dekeseredy P, Wood N, Haggerty T. Assessing the impact of a restrictive opioid prescribing law in West Virginia. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2021;16(1):14. PMID: 33526045. DOI: 10.1186/s13011-021-00349-y Snell-Rood C, Pollini RA, Willging C. Barriers to Integrated Medication-Assisted Treatment for Rural Patients With Co-occurring Disorders: The Gap in Managing Addiction. Psychiatric Services 2021;72(8):935-942. PMID: 33530734. DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.202000312 Snell-Rood C, Willging C, Showalter D, Peters H, Pollini RA. System-level factors shaping the implementation of "hub and spoke" systems to expand MOUD in rural areas. Subst Abus 2021;42(4):716-725. PMID: 33284083. DOI: 10.1080/08897077.2020.1846149 |
About Robin Pollini
Dr. Pollini is a substance use and infectious disease epidemiologist whose research focuses on mitigating the adverse health impacts of injection drug use; these include overdose, HIV, viral hepatitis, and serious injection-related bacterial infections like endocarditis. She uses innovative mixed methods study designs to examine how individual- and structural-level factors influence drug-related morbidity and mortality as well as health services access and utilization among people who inject drugs. Dr. Pollini has been Principal Investigator of several grants funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).