Director, Addictions Division and Outpatient Psychiatry Rehabilitation Program
Director, Addictions Division, Department of Psychiatry
Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington at Harborview Medical Center
325 9th Avenue, 2HH-20
Box 359911
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 897-4216
rries@u.washington.edu
Educational Background:
- BS, Stanford University- Palo Alto, CA, Pre-Med, 1970
- MD, Northwestern Medical School- Evanston, IL, Medicine, 1975
- Residency, University of Washington- Seattle, WA, Psychiatry, 1978
Current Reserach Interests:
- Suicide and addiction- substance related suicide attempts; induced mood disorders; health services implications; Borderline personality disorders, addiction treatment and recovery; suicide intervention
- Twelve Step Facilitation
- Health services research and treatment outcomes in severely mentally ill dually diagnosed outpatients
- Contingency management models of treatment for methamphetamine and other substance abuse in community mental health center patients
- Medications in addiction recovery- alcohol relapse prevention medication; opiate addictions treatment with suboxone
CHAMMP-Related Projects:
Brief Intervention in Primary Care for Problem Drug Use and Abuse (PI: Roy-Byrne)
Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
9/30/08-9/29/13
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Contingency Management of Psychostimulant Abuse in the Severely Mentally Ill (PI: Ries)
Sponsor: National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)
R01 DA022476-01
7/1/07-8/31/09
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DBT-ACES Evaluation of Feasibility (PT: Comtois)
Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
1R34MH079923-01
8/13/07-6/30/10
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Disseminating Organizational Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI) Services (DO-SBIS) at Trauma Centers (PI: Zatzick)
Sponsor: National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
8/07-7/12
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Suboxone Treatment for Opiod Dependent Patients with Soft Tissue Infection (PI: Merrill)
Sponsor: CHAMMP Small Grants Program
2007 Grant Award recipient
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Selected Publications:
- McDonell, M.G., Comtois, K.A., Voss, W.D., Morgan, A.H., & Ries, R.K. (2009). Am Global Appraisal of Individual Needs Short Screener (GSS): psychometric properties and performance as a screening measure in adolescents. Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 35(3), 157-160.
- Ries, R.K., Yuodelis-Flores, C., Roy-Byrne, P.P., Nilssen, O., & Russo, J. (2009). Addiction and suicidal behavior in acute psychiatric inpatients. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 50(2), 93-99.
- Ries, R.K., Yuodelis-Flores, C., Comtois, K.A., Roy-Byrne, P.P., & Russo, J.E. (2008). Substance-induced suicidal admissions to an acute psychiatric service: characteristics and outcomes. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 34, 72-79.
- Pasic, J., Russo, J.E., Ries, R.K., & Roy-Byrne, P.P. (2007). Methamphetamine users in the psychiatric emergency services: a case-control study. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 33(5), 675-686.
- Ries, R.K. (2006). Co-occurring Alcohol Use and Mental Disorders. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26, (6 Suppl 1), S30-36.
- Comtois, K.A., Russo, J.E., Roy-Byrne, P.P., & Ries, R.K. (2004). Clinicians' assessments of bipolar disorder and substance abuse as predictors of suicidal behavior in acutely hospitalized psychiatric inpatients. Biological Psychiatry, 56, 757-763.
- Ries, R.K., Short, R.A., Dyck, D.A., Srebnik, D., Fisher, A., Snowden, M., et al. (2004). Outcomes of Managing Disability Benefits in Substance Dependent Severely Mentally Ill Patients. Psychiatric Services, 55, 445-447.
- Ries, R.K., Short, R.A., Dyck, D.G., & Srebnik, D.S. (2004). Unlinking disability income, substance use, and adverse outcomes in dually diagnosed severely mentally ill outpatients. American Journal on Addictions, 13, 390-397.
- Snowden, M., Walaszek, A., Russo, J., Comtois, K., Srebnik, D., Ries, R., & Roy-Byrne P. (2004). Geriatric patients improve as much as younger patients from hospitalization on general psychiatric units. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 52, 1676-1680.