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Amanda Bunting
Amanda M. Bunting, PhD
NYU Langone Health - Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Email: amanda.bunting@nyulangone.org
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Kentucky
MA, Applied Sociology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Research Interests
Polysubstance use, Opioid use, Justice-involved, Criminal justice, Reentry, Health service utilization, Intervention research
BIO
Amanda Bunting is an interdisciplinary sociologist, whose research focuses on the substance use, health disparities, and reentry needs of justice-involved individuals. She is particularly concerned with research of opioid and polysubstance use. Her doctoral training was completed at the University of Kentucky where, with the support of a National Institute of Drug Abuse T32 (T32-DA035200, PI: Rush), she examined the pre-incarceration polysubstance opioid patterns of justice-involved individuals and associated post-release outcomes. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Population Health at the New York University School of Medicine through the Training Program in Healthcare Delivery Science and Population Health Research (T32-HS026120-01, PIs: Schwartz & Horwitz). Additionally, she is the postdoctoral fellow for Dr. Jennifer McNeely, on her Clinical Trial Network study funded by the HEAL initiative. This multisite study examines the efficacy of a primary care Subthreshold Opioid Use Disorder Prevention (STOP) intervention to reduce unhealthy opioid use (CTN-0101, PI: McNeely). In addition to her role as a postdoctoral fellow at NYU, Dr. Bunting is a trainee as part of the Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Program on Substance Use and HIV at Brown University (R25DA037190, PI: Beckwith).
Projects
Principal Investigator, Adaption of the STAIR-NT Trauma Intervention for Polysubstance Populations. Active
Principal Investigator, Development of a Novel Polysubstance Assessment Tool for Vulnerable Subpopulations. Active
Principal Investigator, Association of Polysubstance Patterns with Trauma Typologies: An Ancillary Study. Completed
Principal Investigator, Dietary Habits and Unmet Nutritional Needs of Individuals in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs. Completed
Publications

Recent

Bunting AM, Fawole A, Griffin B, Lee JD, Oser CB, McNneely J (2024).
“I can combine those things to be a superhero” a qualitative study of the motivations for high-risk polysubstance use
Journal of Drug Issues [Epub 2024 Aug 23]. doi: 10.1177/00220426241277763.

Oser CB, Moody MD, Hansen AC, Stevens-Watkins D, Staton M, Bunting AM (2024).
Predictors of substance use disorder treatment and mutual support group participation among Black women across the criminal legal spectrum: A latent class approach
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 260, 111326. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111326.

Bunting A, Gjersing L, Raffa R (2024).
Introduction to the special section on polysubstance use: Emerging trends, psychosocial drivers, and treatment challenges
International Journal of Drug Policy [Epub 2024 Apr 15]. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104416.

Bunting AM, Tillson M, Staton M (2024).
The association of geographic congruence with postrelease substance use and reincarceration
Criminal Justice and Behavior, 51 (4), 608-619. doi: 10.1177/00938548241227545.

Bunting AM, Shearer R, Linden-Carmichael AN, Williams AR, Comer SD, Cerda M, Lorvick J (2024).
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Defining what we mean by “polysubstance use”
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 50 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.1080/00952990.2023.2248360. PMCID: PMC10939915.

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