
marinaep@uw.edu
Professional interests
- Adult social development for cigarette use
- Parenting interventions for children of marijuana users
- Youth Substance Use and At-risk Factors
- Marijuana policy legislation
- Risk and protective factors for opioid uptake and transition to misuse
- Suicide prevention research
- Sexual Minority Disparities in Substance Use and Depression
- Mechanisms Linking Social and Built Environments to Health
- Gene-environment interaction in addiction
- Intergenerational investigation parental marijuana use
- Longitudinal effects of parental psychiatric diagnosis on risk of youth substance use
Marina Epstein
Research Scientist/ Engineer | Lecturer
SDRG
PhD, Education and Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
In addition to a PhD in Education and Psychology, Dr. Epstein holds an MA in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Published research
- Youth exposure to recreational cannabis legalization: Moderation of effects by sex and parental cannabis use during adolescence
- Long-term effects of the Raising Healthy Children intervention on family functioning in adulthood: A nonrandomized controlled trial
- Alcohol-tolerant workplace environments are a risk factor for young adult alcohol misuse on and off the job in Australia and the United States
- The potential for prevention science in middle and late adulthood: A commentary on the special issue of Prevention Science
- Examining how regular users of marijuana communicate with their children about marijuana use: Lessons learned from Facebook and Instagram recruitment
- Understanding the interplay of individual and social-developmental factors in the progression of substance use and mental health from childhood to adulthood
- Time-varying effects of families and peers on adolescent marijuana use: Person-environment interactions across development
- Outcomes of childhood preventive intervention across 2 generations: A nonrandomized controlled trial
- Longitudinal consequences of adolescent alcohol use under different policy contexts in Australia and the United States
- Does adolescent alcohol harm minimization policy exposure reduce adult alcohol problems? A cross-national comparison
- A test-replicate approach to candidate gene research on addiction and externalizing disorders: A collaboration across five longitudinal studies
- HIV/sexually transmitted infection prevention messaging: Targeting root causes of sexual risk behavior
- Parent ENDS use predicts adolescent and young adult offspring ENDS use above and beyond parent cigarette use
- Using Facebook to recruit parents to participate in a family program to prevent teen drug use
- Time-varying effects of family smoking and family management on adolescent daily smoking: The moderating roles of behavioral disinhibition and anxiety
- The role of electronic cigarette use for quitting or reducing combustible cigarette use in the 30s: Longitudinal changes and moderated relationships
- The relationship between marijuana and conventional cigarette smoking behavior from early adolescence to adulthood
- The relationship between interpersonal violence victimization and smoking behavior across time and by gender
- Effects of cannabis legalization on adolescent cannabis use across 3 studies
- Testing cross-generational effects of the Raising Healthy Children intervention on young adult offspring of intervention participants
- The link between parental smoking and youth externalizing behaviors: Effects of smoking, psychosocial factors, and family characteristics
- The association between regular marijuana use and adult mental health outcomes
- Is e-cigarette use associated with better health and functioning among smokers approaching midlife?
- Adult social environments and the use of combustible and electronic cigarettes: Opportunities for reducing smoking in the 30s
- Does parents’ age at first birth moderate intergenerational continuity in early-onset cannabis use?
- E-cigarette use is associated with subsequent cigarette use among young adult nonsmokers, over and above a range of antecedent risk factors: A propensity score analysis
- Seattle Social Development Project – The Intergenerational Project (SSDP-TIP)
- Concurrent and prospective associations between substance-specific parenting practices and child cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use
- Adolescent age of sexual initiation and subsequent adult health outcomes
- Predictors of adult marijuana use among parents and nonparents
- Racial differences in mechanisms linking childhood socioeconomic status with growth in adult body mass index: The role of adolescent risk and educational attainment
- General and specific predictors of comorbid substance use and internalizing problems from adolescence to age 33
- An intergenerational investigation of the associations between parental marijuana use trajectories and child functioning
- Evaluating the effect of retail marijuana legalization on parent marijuana use frequency and norms in U.S. states with retail marijuana legalization
- Marijuana legalization and youth marijuana, alcohol, and cigarette use and norms
- Effectiveness of Facebook groups to boost participation in a parenting intervention
- Associations between parental and grandparental marijuana use and child substance use norms in a prospective, three-generation study
- General and specific risk and protective factors for cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) use
- Assessing future expectations of low-income minority young men: Survival-threats and positive expectations
- General and substance-specific predictors of young adult nicotine dependence, alcohol use disorder, and problem behavior: Replication in two samples
- Sexual risk behavior in young adulthood: Broadening the scope beyond early sexual initiation
- Understanding the link between early sexual initiation and later sexually transmitted infection: Test and replication in two longitudinal studies
- Alcohol and tobacco use disorder comorbidity in young adults and the influence of romantic partner environments
- The effect of general and drug-specific family environments on comorbid and drug-specific problem behavior: A longitudinal examination
- Does cannabis and electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) use interfere with cigarette smoking cessation in young adulthood?
- Co-occurring change in electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) and cigarette harm perceptions and use in young adults