Amar D. Mandavia, PhD
Clinical psychologist and medical informatician focused on suicide, PTSD, and opioid harms
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Sex Differences in Suicide, Lethal Means, and Years of Potential Life Lost Among Veterans With Substance Use Disorder
January 1, 2025Cohort study examining sex and age differences in suicide deaths and means among veterans diagnosed with alcohol and/or opioid use disorder; found women were more likely to die by suicide and at younger ages, with poisoning the most common means.
Sex and race-ethnicity influences on opioid overdose deaths among veterans diagnosed with opioid use disorder between 2016 and 2021
January 1, 2025Analysis of a large VA cohort identifying sex and racial/ethnic disparities in opioid overdose mortality among veterans with opioid use disorder, highlighting elevated risk among female and racially/ethnically minoritized veterans.
Exposure to Childhood Abuse and Later Substance Use: Indirect Effects of Emotion Dysregulation and Exposure to Trauma
January 1, 2016Study analyzing associations between child abuse, later trauma exposure, emotion dysregulation, and adult substance use in an urban sample, showing emotion dysregulation and later trauma exposure mediated links between emotional abuse and substance use.