ISAP Researchers' Profiles

Elizabeth A. Evans, M.A.

Elizabeth A. Evans is Project Director on two studies at the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs; the statewide evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act and a NIDA-funded study analyzing how Proposition 36 affects the California treatment system. Previously she was Project Director on a CSAT initiative to develop a sustainable statewide automated treatment outcome measurement system called the California Treatment Outcome Project and a NIDA-funded 12 year follow-up study of cocaine-dependent men. She received her M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Indiana at Bloomington and has worked in the evaluation research field for ten years.

Education and Training

• University of California, San Diego. B.A., 1993, Literature/Political Science
• University of Indiana, Bloomington, M.A., 1995, Comparative Literature

Contact Info

UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
1640 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90025
laevans@ucla.edu

Selected Publications

• Evans, E., & Hser, Y.  (2001). Client access to in-treatment services. NIDA Research Monograph CPDD 2000, U.S. Government Printing Office.
• Longshore, D., Prendergast, M., Hser, Y., & Evans, E. (2002).  Treatment in lieu of incarceration, evaluation of California’s Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000: What we need to know; what we’ve learned so far.  Offender Substance Abuse Report, 2, (2).
• Hser, Y.I., Teruya, C., Evans, E.A., Longshore, D., Grella, C., & Farabee, D. (2003). Treating drug-abusing offenders. Initial findings from a five-county study on the impact of California’s Proposition 36 on the treatment system and patient outcomes. Evaluation Review, 27(5), 479-505.
• Evans, E. & Hser, Y.-I.  (2004). Pilot-testing a statewide outcome monitoring system: Overview of the California Treatment Outcome Project (CalTOP). Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, SARC Supplement 2, 109-114.
• Evans, E. & Longshore, D.  (2004). Evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act: Treatment clients and program types during the first year of implementation.  Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, SARC Supplement 2, 165-174.
• Hser Y.-I., Evans E, Huang D, & Anglin D (2004). Relationship between drug treatment services, retention, and outcomes. Psychiatric Services, 55(7): 767-774.
• Hser, Y.-I., Evans, E., & Huang, D. (2005) Treatment outcomes among women and men methamphetamine abusers in California.  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 28: 77-85.
• Grella, C., Hser, Y., Teruya, C., & Evans, E.  (2006).  How can research-based findings be used to improve practice?  Perspectives from participants in a statewide outcomes monitoring study.  Journal of Drug Issues: 465-480.
• Teruya, C., Hardy, M., Hser, Y.I., & Evans, E.  (2006). Implementation of a statewide outcome monitoring system in clinical settings:  Perspectives of treatment provider staff.  Qualitative Health Research, 16 (3): 337-352.
• Hser, Y.-I., Grella, C., Evans, E., & Huang, Y.-U. (2006). Utilization and outcomes of mental health services among patients in drug treatment.  Journal of Addictive Diseases, 25 (1): 73-85.
• Ettner, S.L., Huang, D., Evans, E., Ash, D. R., Hardy, M., Jourabchi, M., & Hser, Y.-I. (2006). Benefit-cost in the California Treatment Outcome Project: Does substance abuse treatment "pay for itself?”  Health Services Research, 41 (1): 192-213.
• Evans, E., Spear, S., Huang, Y-C, & Hser, YI.  (2006). Do American Indians benefit from drug and alcohol treatment? Treatment outcomes among American Indians in CalTOP.  American Journal of Public Health, 96 (5): 889-896.
• Evans, E., Longshore, D., Prendergast, M., & Urada, D.  (2006).  Evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act: Client characteristics, treatment completion and re-offending three years after implementation.  Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, SARC Supplement 3: 357-369. 
• Hser, Y.-I., Teruya, C., Brown, A.H., Huang, D., Evans, E., & Anglin, E. (2007).  Impact of California’s Proposition 36 on the drug treatment system: Treatment capacity and displacement.  American Journal of Public Health, 97, (1), 104-109.
• Hser, Y.I., Evans, E., Teruya, C., Huang, D., & Anglin, M.D.  (2007). Predictors of short-term treatment outcomes among Proposition 36 clients.  Evaluation and Program Planning, 30, 187-196.
• Fosados, R., Evans, E., & Hser, Y.I. (in press).  Ethnic differences in services utilization and outcomes among Proposition 36 offenders in California. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.

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