Meredith Meacham, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Early Career Investigator Award, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, 2018
• NIDA Director's Travel Award, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2015
• Center for Advancing Longitudinal Drug Abuse Research Travel Award, University of California Los Angeles, 2015
• Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Travel Grant to Brazil, University of California San Diego, 2013
• Fulbright Fellowship to the European Union/Portugal, U.S. Department of State, 2006-2007

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2021
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Services Research, Digital Health University of California San Francisco 2018
• PhD Global Public Health UC San Diego/San Diego State University 2015
• MPH Public Health Genetics University of Washington 2009
• AB Political Science, Pre-Medicine University of Chicago 2005

Grants and Projects

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• Using Digital Tools to Understand Contexts and Consequences of High-THC Cannabis Use, NIH, 2019-2024

Publications (51)

Top publication keywords:
VapingMedical MarijuanaDrug OverdoseMethamphetamineSmokersNeedle SharingSocial MediaHeroin DependenceOpioid-Related DisordersSubstance Abuse, IntravenousMarijuana SmokingDrug UsersFentanylCannabisSmoking Cessation

• Situations and roles of cannabis versus cigarette use: Integrating ecological momentary assessment with qualitative mapping interviews.
  Health & place 2024 McQuoid J, Regan T, Devkota J, Cheney MK, Kumar V, Oehlers J, Lopez-Paguyo K, Nguyen N, Meacham MC, Ling PM, Thrul J
• 3:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M WORKSHOP: R/ASKACADEMIA: SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE PRACTICE OF USING REDDIT FOR SUBSTANCE USE RESEARCH Governor's Square 15.
  Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2024 Savannah Brenneke, Meredith Meacham
• S26 Cannabis Retail Staff Perspectives on Trustworthiness of Social Media Information: A Qualitative Study.
  Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2024 Meredith Meacham, Danielle Schell, Coye Cheshire
• The Reddit cannabis subjective highness rating scale: Applying computational social science to explore psychological and environmental correlates of naturalistic cannabis use.
  PloS one 2024 Meacham MC, Nobles AL, Bone C', Gilbert M, Thrul J
• Factors Associated With Abstinence Among Young Adult Smokers Enrolled in a Real-world Social Media Smoking Cessation Program.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2024 Lyu JC, Meacham MC, Nguyen N, Ramo D, Ling PM

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• Housing Instability Associated with Return to Stimulant Use among Previously Abstaining Women.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2023 Mehtani NJ, Chuku CC, Meacham MC, Vittinghoff E, Dilworth SE, Riley ED
• Reviewing the Risk of Ketene Formation in Dabbing and Vaping Tetrahydrocannabinol-O-Acetate.
  Cannabis and cannabinoid research 2023 Bone CC, Klein C, Munger K, Strongin RM, Kruger DJ, Meacham MC, Kruger JS
• THC-O-Acetate: Scarce Evidence for a Psychedelic Cannabinoid.
  Journal of psychoactive drugs 2023 Kruger DJ, Bone CC, Meacham MC, Klein C, Kruger JS
• Trends in Fentanyl Content on Reddit Substance Use Forums, 2013-2021.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Bunting AM, Krawczyk N, Lippincott T, Gu Y, Arya S, Nagappala S, Meacham MC
• Fentanyl in Pressed Oxycodone Pills: A Qualitative Analysis of Online Community Experiences with an Emerging Drug Trend.
  Substance use & misuse 2022 Arya S, Nagappala S, Krawczyk N, Gi Y, Meacham MC, Bunting AM
• Cost-Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing to Reduce Alcohol and Cannabis Use Among Patients With Depression.
  Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 2022 Satre DD, Parthasarathy S, Young-Wolff KC, Meacham MC, Borsari B, Hirschtritt ME, Van Dyke L, Sterling SA
• Types and Sources of Stigma on Opioid Use Treatment and Recovery Communities on Reddit.
  Substance use & misuse 2022 Kepner W, Meacham MC, Nobles AL
• "I got a bunch of weed to help me through the withdrawals": Naturalistic cannabis use reported in online opioid and opioid recovery community discussion forums.
  PloS one 2022 Meacham MC, Nobles AL, Tompkins DA, Thrul J
• Opportunities to Integrate Mobile App-Based Interventions Into Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services in the Wake of COVID-19.
  American journal of health promotion : AJHP 2021 Satre DD, Meacham MC, Asarnow LD, Fisher WS, Fortuna LR, Iturralde E
• The Relationship of E-Cigarette Use to Tobacco Use Outcomes Among Young Adults Who Smoke and Use Alcohol.
  Journal of addiction medicine 2021 Yonek JC, Meacham MC, Ramo D, Delucchi K, Tolou-Shams M, Satre DD
• Smoking reduction is associated with lower alcohol consumption and depressive symptoms among young adults over one year.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2021 Yonek JC, Meacham MC, Shumway M, Tolou-Shams M, Satre DD
• Problematic Social Media Use in Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults: Observational Study.
  JMIR mental health 2021 Vogel EA, Ramo DE, Prochaska JJ, Meacham MC, Layton JF, Humfleet GL
• Risk of non-fatal overdose and polysubstance use in a longitudinal study with people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico.
  Drug and alcohol review 2021 Rivera Saldana CD, Abramovitz D, Meacham MC, Gonzalez-Zuniga P, Rafful C, Rangel G, Strathdee SA, Cepeda J
• Addressing cigarette smoking cessation treatment challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic with social media.
  Journal of substance abuse treatment 2021 Meacham MC, Vogel EA, Thrul J, Ramo DE, Satre DD
• Corrigendum to: Connectedness Based on Shared Engagement Predicts Remote Biochemically Verified Quit Status Within Smoking Cessation Treatment Groups on Facebook.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2021 Meacham MC, Liang OS, Zhao M, Yang CC, Thrul J, Ramo DE
• NEXT Harm Reduction: An Online, Mail-Based Naloxone Distribution and Harm-Reduction Program.
  American journal of public health 2021 Yang C, Favaro J, Meacham MC
• Connectedness Based on Shared Engagement Predicts Remote Biochemically Verified Quit Status Within Smoking Cessation Treatment Groups on Facebook.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2021 Meacham MC, Liang OS, Zhao M, Yang CC, Thrul J, Ramo DE
• A Facebook intervention to address cigarette smoking and heavy episodic drinking: A pilot randomized controlled trial.
  Journal of substance abuse treatment 2020 Meacham MC, Ramo DE, Prochaska JJ, Maier LJ, Delucchi KL, Kaur M, Satre DD
• Vaping-Related Mobile Apps Available in the Google Play Store After the Apple Ban: Content Review.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2020 Meacham MC, Vogel EA, Thrul J
• The Put It Out Project (POP) Facebook Intervention for Young Sexual and Gender Minority Smokers: Outcomes of a Pilot, Randomized, Controlled Trial.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2020 Vogel EA, Ramo DE, Meacham MC, Prochaska JJ, Delucchi KL, Humfleet GL
• Factors associated with readiness to quit smoking among young adults enrolled in a Facebook-based tobacco and alcohol intervention study.
  Addictive behaviors 2020 Maier LJ, Ramo DE, Kaur M, Meacham MC, Satre DD
• Addressing overdose risk among unstably housed women in San Francisco, California: an examination of potential fentanyl contamination of multiple substances.
  Harm reduction journal 2020 Meacham MC, Lynch KL, Coffin PO, Wade A, Wheeler E, Riley ED
• Live counselor contact in a Facebook intervention predicts smoking cessation outcomes.
  Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors 2019 Thrul J, Meacham MC, Tice C, Kelly O, Ramo DE
• Frequently asked questions about dabbing concentrates in online cannabis community discussion forums.
  The International journal on drug policy 2019 Meacham MC, Roh S, Chang JS, Ramo DE
• Social media for tobacco smoking cessation intervention: a review of the literature.
  Current addiction reports 2019 Thrul J, Tormohlen KN, Meacham MC
• Development of a social media-based intervention targeting tobacco use and heavy episodic drinking in young adults.
  Addiction science & clinical practice 2019 Ramo DE, Meacham MC, Kaur M, Corpuz ES, Prochaska JJ, Satre DD
• Sexual and gender minority young adults' smoking characteristics: Assessing differences by sexual orientation and gender identity.
  Addictive behaviors 2019 Vogel EA, Humfleet GL, Meacham M, Prochaska JJ, Ramo DE
• Condomless Sex and Psychiatric Comorbidity in the Context of Constrained Survival Choices: A Longitudinal Study Among Homeless and Unstably Housed Women.
  AIDS and behavior 2019 Meacham MC, Bahorik AL, Shumway M, Marquez C, Riley ED
• Exploring Identities and Preferences for Intervention Among LGBTQ+ Young Adult Smokers Through Online Focus Groups.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2018 Ramo DE, Meacham M, Thrul J, Belohlavek A, Sarkar U, Humfleet G
• A novel and remote biochemical verification method of smoking abstinence: Predictors of participant compliance.
  Tobacco prevention & cessation 2018 Thrul J, Meacham MC, Ramo DE
• Understanding emerging forms of cannabis use through an online cannabis community: An analysis of relative post volume and subjective highness ratings.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2018 Meacham MC, Paul MJ, Ramo DE
• Predictors of injecting cessation among a cohort of people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2018 Horyniak D, Strathdee SA, West BS, Meacham M, Rangel G, Gaines TL
• Associations between medical cannabis and other drug use among unstably housed women.
  The International journal on drug policy 2017 Meacham MC, Ramo DE, Kral AH, Riley ED
• Perceived Treatment Need and Latent Transitions in Heroin and Methamphetamine Polydrug Use among People who Inject Drugs in Tijuana, Mexico.
  Journal of psychoactive drugs 2017 Meacham MC, Roesch SC, Strathdee SA, Gaines TL
• Latent classes of polydrug and polyroute use and associations with human immunodeficiency virus risk behaviours and overdose among people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
  Drug and alcohol review 2017 Meacham MC, Roesch SC, Strathdee SA, Lindsay S, Gonzalez-Zuniga P, Gaines TL
• Illicit Drug Trends Globally.
  International Encyclopedia of Public Health 2017 Liesbeth Vandam, João Matias, Rebecca McKetin, Meredith Meacham, Paul Griffiths
• Prevalence and Correlates of Heroin-Methamphetamine Co-Injection Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
  Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 2016 Meacham MC, Strathdee SA, Rangel G, Armenta RF, Gaines TL, Garfein RS
• Prevalence and correlates of depression in a high emigration town in Oaxaca, Mexico: Findings from a binational student research training program.
  Annals of Global Health 2016 M.C. Meacham, D.A. Hughes, M. Gell-Redman, M.L. Zúñiga
• The effectiveness of compulsory drug treatment: A systematic review.
  The International journal on drug policy 2015 Werb D, Kamarulzaman A, Meacham MC, Rafful C, Fischer B, Strathdee SA, Wood E
• Cell phone access among persons who inject drugs in Tijuana, BC, Mexico
  Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine 2015 Collins KM, Abramovitz D, Meacham MC, Gonzalez-Zuniga PE, Patrick K, Garfein RS
• Polydrug Use and HIV Risk Among People Who Inject Heroin in Tijuana, Mexico: A Latent Class Analysis.
  Substance use & misuse 2015 Meacham MC, Rudolph AE, Strathdee SA, Rusch ML, Brouwer KC, Patterson TL, Vera A, Rangel G, Roesch SC
• Young adult social development as a mediator of alcohol use disorder symptoms from age 21 to 30.
  Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors 2014 Kosterman R, Hill KG, Lee JO, Meacham MC, Abbott RD, Catalano RF, Hawkins JD
• Alcohol and tobacco use disorder comorbidity in young adults and the influence of romantic partner environments.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2013 Meacham MC, Bailey JA, Hill KG, Epstein M, Hawkins JD
• Strategies for characterizing complex phenotypes and environments: general and specific family environmental predictors of young adult tobacco dependence, alcohol use disorder, and co-occurring problems.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2011 Bailey JA, Hill KG, Meacham MC, Young SE, Hawkins JD
• Researcher perspectives on disclosure of incidental findings in genetic research.
  Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE 2010 Meacham MC, Starks H, Burke W, Edwards K
• Illicit Drug Trends Globally.
  International Encyclopedia of Public Health 2008 P. Griffiths, M. Meacham, R. McKetin