William E. McAuliffe, Ph.D.

Dr. McAuliffe has been Director of the North Charles Research and Planning Group and the National Technical Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Needs Assessment since 1990 and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. McAuliffe started at Harvard in 1972 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, and since then has held posts in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health. He earned his bachelor's degree in psychology at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to earn a master's degree in sociology at Washington University in 1969 and returned to Johns Hopkins where he earned his doctoral degree in sociology in 1972.

Dr. McAuliffe spent his first several years as NCRPG's director designing the survey instrument that was used for the substance use and treatment surveys in each state as part of the State Treatment Needs Assessment Program (STNAP) sponsored by the federal Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). He went on to design, execute, and analyze the multi-mode substance use survey done in Rhode Island as part of the STNAP. That project surveyed all of the relevant populations in the state including people in households using a telephone survey, homeless people at shelters and soup kitchens, prisoners in corrections facilities, juvenile offenders in training schools, and long-term residential treatment clients. The study also involved creation of a social indicator model of substance abuse for the state. NCRPG recently published an article in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment describing Rhode Island's social indicator data. Also as part of the STNAP, Dr. McAuliffe led the integrated substance abuse treatment need studies for North Dakota, Alaska, Montana, and Colorado. Each of those studies involved the use of the states' substance use survey data and creation of a social indicator model. As a result of his involved in the STNAP, Dr. McAuliffe's most recent research has focused on the use of social indicators to measure interstate differences in substance abuse and treatment needs.

Dr. McAuliffe has published over 75 journal articles, books, chapters, and reviews over the past 30 years. These are just a few of them:

McAuliffe WE, Gordon RA. A test of Lindesmith's theory of addiction:  the frequency of euphoria among long-term addicts.  Am J Sociology 1974;79(4):795-840.

McAuliffe WE. Studies of process-outcome correlations in medical care evaluations:  a critique. Med Care 1978;16(11): 907-930.

McAuliffe WE, Rohman M, Santangelo S, Feldman B, Magnuson E, Sobol A, Weissman J. Psychoactive drug use among practicing physicians and medical students. N Engl J Med 1986;315(13): 805-810.

McAuliffe WE. Nontherapeutic opiate addiction in health professionals:  a new form of impairment. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 1984;10(1):1-22.

McAuliffe WE, Wechsler H, Rohman M, Soboroff S, Fishman P, Toth D, Friedman R. Psychoactive drug use by young and future physicians. J Health Social Behavior 1984;25(1):34-54.

McAuliffe WE. A randomized controlled trial of recovery training and self help for opioid addicts in New England and Hong Kong. J Psychoactive Drugs 1990 (Apr-Jun);22(2):197-209.

McAuliffe WE, Breer P, Doering S. An evaluation of using ex-addict outreach workers to educate intravenous drug users about AIDS. AIDS and Public Policy 1989;4(4):218-223.

McAuliffe WE, Rohman M, Breer P, Wyshak G, Santangelo S, Magnuson E. Alcohol use and abuse in random samples of physicians and medical students. Am J Public Health 1991; 81(2):177-182.

McAuliffe WE, Breer P, White N, Spino C. Assessment of drug abuser treatment needs in Rhode Island. Am J Public Health 1991 (March); 81(3):365-371.

McAuliffe WE, Albert J. Clean start: Beginning cocaine recovery as an outpatient. New York: Guilford, 1992.

Zackon F, McAuliffe WE, Ch'ien JMN. Recovery training and self-help: Relapse prevention and aftercare for drug addicts. Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1993.

McAuliffe WE, Ashery RS. Implementation issues and techniques in randomized trials of outpatient psychosocial treatments for drug abusers: II. Clinical and Administrative Issues. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 1993; 19(1): 35-50.

Breer P, McAuliffe WE., Levine E. Statewide substance abuse prevention planning. Eval Review, 1996,20(5), 596-618.

McAuliffe WE, LaBrie R, Lomuto N, Betjemann R, Fournier L. Measuring Interstate Variations in Drug Problems. Drug Alcohol Dep, 1999, 53(2), 125-145.

McAuliffe WE, LaBrie R, Lomuto N, Pollock N, Betjemann R, Fournier E. Measuring Interstate Variations in Problems Related to Alcohol Use Disorders. In: Wilson, R. and Dufour, M., The Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems in Small Geographic Areas. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. 2000.

McAuliffe WE, Woodworth R, Zhang C, Dunn R. Identifying Substance Abuse Treatment Gaps in Substate Areas. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2002, 23 (33), 199-208.

McAuliffe WE, LaBrie R, Woodworth R, Zhang C. Estimates of Potential Bias in Telephone Substance Abuse Surveys Due to Exclusion of Households Without Telephones. Journal of Drug Issues, Winter 2003, 32(4), 1139-1154.

McAuliffe WE, Dunn R. Substance Abuse Treatment Needs and Access in the USA: Interstate Variations. Addiction, 2004, 99, 999-1014.

McAuliffe WE, LaBrie R, Woodworth R, Zhang C, Dunn R. State Substance Abuse Treatment Gaps. American Journal on Addictions, 2003, 12(2), 1-21.

Shepard DS, Strickler GK, McAuliffe WE, Beaston-Blaakman A, Rahman M, Anderson T. Unmet Need for Substance Abuse Treatment of Adults in Massachusetts. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 32(4), 403-425.

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