ISAP Researchers' Profiles

Elizabeth A. Evans, M.A.

Liz Evans is a Project Director at the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP). At ISAP since 1999, Liz currently contributes to a NIDA-funded 10-year follow-up of drug dependent mothers and their children, a study of opiate users who participated in a randomized clinical trial of suboxone versus methadone via the NIDA Clinical Trials Network, and the Center for Advancing Longitudinal Drug Abuse Research (CALDAR). Liz has authored 37 peer-reviewed publications on substance abuse on topics that include treatment utilization and outcomes, health disparities, uses of administrative data for longitudinal research, best practices for court-supervised substance abuse treatment, and comparative effectiveness of programs to treat drug offenders.

Education and Training

  • University of California, San Diego. B.A., 1993, Literature/Political Science
  • University of Indiana, Bloomington, M.A., 1995, Comparative Literature
  • University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. Student, 2010, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Contact Info

UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
11075 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90025
laevans@ucla.edu

Selected Publications

  1. Evans, E., Li, L., Urada, D., & Anglin, M.D.  (in press).  Comparative effectiveness of California’s Proposition 36 and drug court programs before and after propensity score matching.  Crime & Delinquency.
  2. Evans, E., Jaffe, A., Urada, D., & Anglin, M.D.  (in press). Differential outcomes of court-supervised substance abuse treatment among California parolees and probationers.  International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.
  3. Hser, Y.-I., Evans, E., Huang, D., & Messina, N. (2011). Long-term outcomes among drug dependent mothers treated in women-only versus mixed-gender programs.  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 41(2):115-123.
  4. Evans, E., Huang, D., & Hser, Y.-I. (2011). High-risk drug offenders participating in court-supervised substance abuse treatment: Characteristics, treatment received, and factors associated with recidivism.  Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 38(4): 510-525.
  5. Huang, D.Y.C., Evans, E., Hara, M., Weiss, R.E., & Hser, Y.I. (2011). Employment trajectories: Exploring gender differences and impacts of drug use.  Journal of Vocational Behavior, 79(1): 277-289.
  6. Evans, E., Anglin, M.D., Urada, D., & Yang, J. (2011). Promising practices for delivery of court-supervised substance abuse treatment: Perspectives from six high-performing California counties operating Proposition 36.  Evaluation and Program Planning, 34: 124-134.  PMID: 20965568.  PMCID pending.
  7. Evans, E., Grella, C., Murphy, D., & Hser, Y.-I. (2010). Using administrative data for longitudinal substance abuse research.  Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 37 (2): 252-271.  PMID: 18679805; NIHMS: 47742.  PMCID: 2850956.
  8. Evans, E., Hser, Y.-I., & Huang, D.  (2010). Employment services utilization and outcomes among substance-abusing offenders participating in California’s Proposition 36 drug treatment initiative.  Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 37 (4): 461-476.  PMID: 19688598; NIHMS: 171997.  PMCID: 2895690.
  9. Evans, E., Li, L., & Hser, Y.-I. (2009). Client and program factors associated with dropout from court mandated drug treatment.  Evaluation and Program Planning, 32(3): 204-212.  PMID: 19150133; PMCID: 2703685.
  10. Evans, E., Murphy, D., Grella, C., Mouttapa, M., & Hser, Y.-I.  (2008). Regulatory issues encountered when conducting longitudinal substance abuse research.  Journal of Drug Issues, 38 (4): 1003-1026. NIHMS: 47745. PMCID: 2850543.
  11. Evans, E., Li, L., & Hser, Y.-I. (2008).  Treatment entry barriers among California’s Proposition 36 offenders.  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 35 (4): 410-418. PMID: 18514474; NIHMS: 47736; PMCID: 2576498.
  12. Hser, Y.-I., Evans, E., Huang, D., Brecht, M.L., & Li, L. (2008).  Comparing the dynamic course of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine use over 10 years.  Addictive Behaviors, 33 (12): 1581–1590. PMID: 18790574.
  13. Hser, Y.-I. & Evans, E. (2008). Cross-system data linkage for treatment outcome evaluation: Lessons learned from the California Treatment Outcome Project.  Evaluation and Program Planning, 31(2): 125-135.  PMID: 18374980; PMCID: 2413098.
  14. Evans, E., Spear, S., Huang, Y-C, & Hser, Y.-I.  (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.  PMID: 16571710; PMCID: 1470575.
  15. 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.  PMID: 16430607; PMCID: 1681530.
Last updated - 02/09/2012

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