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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

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.

Liebschutz JM, Subramaniam GA, Stone R, Appleton N, Gelberg L, Lovejoy TI, Bunting AM, Cleland CM..., McNeely J (2023).
Subthreshold opioid use disorder prevention (STOP) trial: A cluster randomized clinical trial: Study design and methods
Addiction Science and Clinical Practice, 18 (1), 70. doi: 10.1186/s13722-023-00424-8. PMCID: PMC10657560.

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