Dr. Laurie Drabble received a BA in Social work at California State University, Los
Angeles and a Masters in Social Work at California State University, Long Beach. She is
former Executive Director of the California Women´s Commission on Alcohol and Drug
Dependencies and has worked statewide and nationally as an organizational consultant
providing a wide range of technical assistance and training services related to women´s
alcohol and drug issues, alcohol/drug prevention strategies, strategic planning, and
non-profit management. She returned to school to earn a Ph.D. in Social Welfare and a
Masters in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Among other activities, Dr. Drabble serves as an Affiliate Associate Scientist with the
Alcohol Research Group (ARG) in Berkeley, California and is a member of the California
Women´s Health Survey Committee of the California Department of Health Services. Her
research focuses on understanding alcohol and drug-related problems among women.

Peer Reviewed Articles

Advancing Collaborative Practice Between Substance Abuse Treatment and Child Welfare Fields: What Helps and Hinders the Process?, Journal of Social Work Administration (2011)
 
Collaboration between addiction treatment and child welfare: Challenges and opportunities in a Canadian context (with N Poole), Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions (2011)
 
Conceiving risk, divergent Responses: Perspectives on the evolution of the construction of FASD in six countries. (with N Poole, R Magri, N M. Tumwesiguy, L Qing, and M `. Plant), Substance Use and Misuse (2011)
 
Sexual Minority Women and Alcohol: Intersections between drinking, relational contexts, stress, and coping. (with M Condit, K Kitaji, and K Trocki), Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services (2011)
 
Tobacco, marijuana use and sensation-seeking: Comparisons across gay, lesbian, bisexual and heterosexual groups. (with K Trocki and L T. Midanik), Psychology of Addictive Behaviors (2009)
 

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Book Chapters/Other Publications

“Got a light?” Smoking and lesbians (with M J. Eliason), Lesbian Health 101: A Clinician’s Guide (2010)
 
Meet Me at the Bar? Patterns of Alcohol and Drug Use Among Lesbians (with M J. Eliason and M Reyes), Lesbian Health 101: A Clinician’s Guide. (2010)
 
Alcohol Consumption Among Adult Women: Findings from the California Women’s Health Survey, 1997 – 2002., Women’s Health: Findings from the California Women’s Health Survey, 1997-2003 (2006)
 
Media strategies for advancing health in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. (with J Keatley and G Marcelle), Handbook of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender public health: A practitioner’s guide to service (2006)
 
Alcohol consumption, alcohol-related problems, and other substance use among lesbian and bisexual women (with K Trocki), Making lesbians visible in the substance use field (2005)
 

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Papers Presented at Conferences

Collaboration between addiction treatment and child welfare: A Canadian context., 35th Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol (2010)
 
Conceiving Risk, Divergent Responses – Perspectives on the Evolution of the Construction of FASD in Five Countries. (with N Poole, R Magri, N M. Tumwesiguy, and L Qing), 34th Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol (2009)
 
Conceiving Risk, Divergent Responses – Perspectives on the Evolution of the Construction of FASD in Five Countries. (with N Poole, R Magri, N M. Tumwesiguy, and L Qing), 3rd International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (2009)
 
Advancing Collaborative Practice Between Substance Abuse Treatment and Child Welfare Fields: What Helps and Hinders the Process?, 34th Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol (2008)
 
Pathways to collaboration: Factors that help and hinder collaboration between the fields of child welfare and substance abuse treatment, 32nd Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol (2006)
 

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