O’Dell Johnson Data-verified

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Researcher

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

faculty

4 h-index 10 pubs 79 cited

Research Areas

OverviewAI-generated summary

O’Dell Johnson's research investigates public attitudes toward opioid use and related policies in the United States. His work has examined the influence of racial attitudes, political affiliation, and opioid stigma on support for evidence-informed interventions. Johnson has also studied national trends in the availability of mental health treatment services, particularly for individuals mandated to treatment by courts, and analyzed differences in these services based on the racial/ethnic composition of clientele in specialty mental health facilities.

Further research by Johnson explores social stigma towards various substance use disorders, including opioids, methamphetamines, crack cocaine, and alcohol. He has also investigated the relationship between substance use stigma and vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Johnson's scholarship includes a focus on community network-driven interventions for vulnerable populations, as demonstrated by his involvement in a randomized controlled trial for COVID-19 testing and vaccination in the central United States. His recent publications include analyses of public attitudes toward opioid use and trends in mental health treatment services.

Metrics

h-index: 4
Publications: 10
Citations: 79

Selected Publications

A community network-driven COVID-19 testing and vaccination intervention for vulnerable populations in the Central United States: results from a Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Underserved Populations randomized controlled trial (2025)

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COVID-19 prevention behaviors are congruent within social networks of disenfranchised Hispanic and criminal legal involved community members (2025)

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National and state-level trends in the availability of mental health treatment services tailored to individuals ordered to treatment by a court: United States, 2016, 2018, and 2020 (2024)

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Comprehensive and Integrated Services in Specialty Mental Health Treatment Facilities in the US: Differences by the Racial/Ethnic Composition of the Facility’s Clientele, 2020 (2023)

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The Relationship between Substance Use Stigma and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy (2023)

3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Assessing Social Stigma Towards Drug Use Disorders Related to Opioids, Methamphetamines, Crack Cocaine and Alcohol (2023)

2 citations DOI OpenAlex
A National Portrait of Public Attitudes toward Opioid Use in the US: A Latent Class Analysis (2023)

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Stakeholder-engaged research is necessary across the criminal-legal spectrum (2022)

13 citations DOI OpenAlex