Michael A. Cucciare
Professor
Also affiliated: United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2018); University of Nevada, Reno (2005–2006); VA Palo Alto Health Care System (2007–2022); VA Office of Research and Development (2015); Health Services Research & Development (2015); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2013–2026); Menlo School (2011); Outcomes Based Healthcare (2022); Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (2015–2025); Center for Innovation (2014); South Central VA Health Care Network (2014–2025); Stanford University (2007–2012)
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Michael A. Cucciare's research focuses on substance use disorders and behavioral interventions, particularly within veteran populations. He has investigated the adoption and sustainment of therapies like Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) for justice-involved veterans, aiming to reduce recidivism. His work also explores adapting protocols to promote benzodiazepine cessation among US military veterans, utilizing focus group studies to gather insights from veterans and Veterans Health Administration leaders.
Cucciare has also examined the role of data science in improving outcomes for individuals with opioid use disorder and has studied the relationship between substance use and criminogenic thinking in veterans with criminal histories. His research extends to caregivers of individuals with substance use or mental health disorders. He has published extensively, with a notable h-index of 27 and over 2,500 citations, reflecting a significant body of work in his field. He collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Corey J. Hayes and Xiaotong Han.
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- h-index: 27
- Publications: 147
- Citations: 2,598
Selected Publications
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Primary Care Patients’ Perceptions of Connect to Care—A Strengths-Based Intervention to Facilitate Linkage to Alcohol Care (2026)
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Barbershop talk: a hybrid-2 trial examining the effectiveness of a barbershop-placed screening, brief intervention, and referral (SBIRT) intervention (2026)
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Criminogenic risk and suicidality among justice-involved homeless veterans with comorbid mental health and substance use disorders (2026)
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Electronic Intervention for Patient-Managed Benzodiazepine Tapering (2026)
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Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Clinical Impact of a Computer-Assisted Transdiagnostic CBT Intervention for Veterans with Co-Occurring Anxiety and Substance Use Disorders (2025)
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Predictors of concerned others' Al‐Anon attendance and involvement following adults' entry into treatment for an alcohol use disorder (2025)
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Mutual-Help Groups for Affected Others (2025)
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Intervention for Justice-Involved Homeless Veterans With Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial (2025)
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256 Identifying causes of parenting stress among postpartum mothers receiving medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) (2025)
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Veteran Perspectives on Treatment and Recovery From Co-Occurring Anxiety Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Unhealthy Alcohol Use (2025)
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A Scoping Review of Protective Factors That Contribute to Posttraumatic Wellbeing for Trauma-Exposed Military Service Members and Veterans (2025)
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Development and Validation of Machine-Learning Algorithms Predicting Retention, Overdoses, and All-Cause Mortality Among US Military Veterans Treated with Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder (2025)
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Overcoming barriers to care for Alcohol Use Disorder: Pathways for change (2024)
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Veterans’ Experiences of and Preferences for Patient-Centered, Measurement-Based PTSD Care (2024)
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Association Between Patient-Level Factors and Positive Treatment Response Among Individuals With a Psychostimulant Use Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study (2024)
Federal Grants 2
A Computer-Assisted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Tool to Enhance Fidelity in CBO
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- Intensive Referral to Al-Anon: Benefits to Concerned Others and Their Drinkers NIH
- A Female-Specific Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Group for Alcohol Use Disorder in VA Primary Care Settings- Resubmission NIH/Nat. Inst. on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism via University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Family Health Patterns: A Study Across Generations NIH
- Translational Training in Addiction NIH
- Promoting benzodiazepine cessation through an electronically-delivered patient self-management intervention NIH
- The Center for Research, Health, and Social Justice NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- Developing and Testing Innovative Care Pathways for Screening and Treatment of OUD/PTSD in Jails NIH
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- Recidivism Treatment for Justice-Involved Veterans: Evaluating Adoption and Sustainment of Moral Reconation Therapy in the US Veterans Health Administration
- Caregivers of People with Substance use or Mental Health Disorders in the US
- Al-Anon Intensive Referral (AIR): A qualitative formative evaluation for implementation
- Al‐Anon Intensive Referral to facilitate concerned others’ participation in Al‐Anon Family Groups: a randomized controlled trial
- Patients With Alcohol Use Disorders and Their Concerned Others: Concordance of Lived Experience as a Moderator of Treatment Outcomes
Showing 5 of 13 shared publications
- Using Data Science to Improve Outcomes for Persons with Opioid use Disorder
- Video-Based, Patient-Focused Opioid Education in the Perioperative Period Increases Self-Perceived Opioid-Related Knowledge: A Pilot Study
- Average Daily Dose Trajectories for Episodes of Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder.
- Leveraging the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to Curb Opioid Prescribing in Arkansas
- Development and validation of machine-learning algorithms predicting retention, overdoses, and all-cause mortality among US military veterans treated with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Patient and Provider Perspectives on Treating Substance Use Disorder and Co-Occurring Anxiety and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
- A randomized controlled trial comparing a manual and computer version of CALM in VA community-based outpatient clinics
- Veteran Perspectives on Treatment and Recovery From Co-Occurring Anxiety Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Unhealthy Alcohol Use
- Substance Use Disorders: Second Wave Approaches
- Overcoming barriers to care for Alcohol Use Disorder: Pathways for change
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- Al-Anon Intensive Referral (AIR): A qualitative formative evaluation for implementation
- Al‐Anon Intensive Referral to facilitate concerned others’ participation in Al‐Anon Family Groups: a randomized controlled trial
- Patients With Alcohol Use Disorders and Their Concerned Others: Concordance of Lived Experience as a Moderator of Treatment Outcomes
- Concerned others’ help utilization and patients’ alcohol treatment outcomes
- 96319 Al-Anon Intensive Referral (AIR): A qualitative formative evaluation for implementation
- Adapting the Eliminating Medications Through Patient Ownership of End Results Protocol to Promote Benzodiazepine Cessation Among US Military Veterans: Focus Group Study With US Military Veterans and National Veterans Health Administration Leaders
- Promoting benzodiazepine cessation through an electronically-delivered patient self-management intervention (EMPOWER-ED): Randomized controlled trial protocol
- A randomized controlled trial comparing a manual and computer version of CALM in VA community-based outpatient clinics
- Connect To Care (C2C): protocol for two-site randomized controlled pilot trial to improve outcomes for patients with hazardous drinking and PTSD and/or depression symptoms
- Adapting an Alcohol Care Linkage Intervention to US Military Veterans Presenting to Primary Care with Hazardous Drinking and PTSD and/or Depression Symptoms: A Qualitative Study
- Al‐Anon Intensive Referral to facilitate concerned others’ participation in Al‐Anon Family Groups: a randomized controlled trial
- Predictors of alcohol use disorder treatment outcomes over 12 months: Role of concerned others’ functioning and Al-Anon participation
- Connect To Care (C2C): protocol for two-site randomized controlled pilot trial to improve outcomes for patients with hazardous drinking and PTSD and/or depression symptoms
- Adapting an Alcohol Care Linkage Intervention to US Military Veterans Presenting to Primary Care with Hazardous Drinking and PTSD and/or Depression Symptoms: A Qualitative Study
- Predictors of concerned others' Al‐Anon attendance and involvement following adults' entry into treatment for an alcohol use disorder
- Using Data Science to Improve Outcomes for Persons with Opioid use Disorder
- Average Daily Dose Trajectories for Episodes of Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder.
- Development and validation of machine-learning algorithms predicting retention, overdoses, and all-cause mortality among US military veterans treated with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder
- EE37 Lifetime Survival, Societal Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Nine Options to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder
- Development and Validation of Machine-Learning Algorithms Predicting Retention, Overdoses, and All-Cause Mortality Among US Military Veterans Treated with Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder
- Caregivers of People with Substance use or Mental Health Disorders in the US
- Patients With Alcohol Use Disorders and Their Concerned Others: Concordance of Lived Experience as a Moderator of Treatment Outcomes
- Concerned others’ help utilization and patients’ alcohol treatment outcomes
- Patient–Concerned Other Dyads’ 12-Step Involvement and Patients’ Substance Use: A Latent Class Growth Model Analysis
- Using Data Science to Improve Outcomes for Persons with Opioid use Disorder
- Average Daily Dose Trajectories for Episodes of Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder.
- Development and validation of machine-learning algorithms predicting retention, overdoses, and all-cause mortality among US military veterans treated with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder
- Development and Validation of Machine-Learning Algorithms Predicting Retention, Overdoses, and All-Cause Mortality Among US Military Veterans Treated with Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder
- Recidivism Treatment for Justice-Involved Veterans: Evaluating Adoption and Sustainment of Moral Reconation Therapy in the US Veterans Health Administration
- Intervention for Justice-Involved Homeless Veterans With Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial
- Criminogenic risk and suicidality among justice-involved homeless veterans with comorbid mental health and substance use disorders
- Caregivers of People with Substance use or Mental Health Disorders in the US
- Patients With Alcohol Use Disorders and Their Concerned Others: Concordance of Lived Experience as a Moderator of Treatment Outcomes
- Concerned others’ help utilization and patients’ alcohol treatment outcomes
- Adapting the Eliminating Medications Through Patient Ownership of End Results Protocol to Promote Benzodiazepine Cessation Among US Military Veterans: Focus Group Study With US Military Veterans and National Veterans Health Administration Leaders
- Promoting benzodiazepine cessation through an electronically-delivered patient self-management intervention (EMPOWER-ED): Randomized controlled trial protocol
- A randomized controlled trial comparing a manual and computer version of CALM in VA community-based outpatient clinics
- Promoting benzodiazepine cessation through an electronically-delivered patient self-management intervention (EMPOWER-ED): Randomized controlled trial protocol
- A randomized controlled trial comparing a manual and computer version of CALM in VA community-based outpatient clinics
- Electronic Intervention for Patient-Managed Benzodiazepine Tapering
- Adapting the Eliminating Medications Through Patient Ownership of End Results Protocol to Promote Benzodiazepine Cessation Among US Military Veterans: Focus Group Study With US Military Veterans and National Veterans Health Administration Leaders
- Promoting benzodiazepine cessation through an electronically-delivered patient self-management intervention (EMPOWER-ED): Randomized controlled trial protocol
- A randomized controlled trial comparing a manual and computer version of CALM in VA community-based outpatient clinics
- A randomized controlled trial comparing a manual and computer version of CALM in VA community-based outpatient clinics
- Overcoming barriers to care for Alcohol Use Disorder: Pathways for change
- Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Clinical Impact of a Computer-Assisted Transdiagnostic CBT Intervention for Veterans with Co-Occurring Anxiety and Substance Use Disorders
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