Ryan Carpenter

Ryan Carpenter
Assistant Professor
ryancarpenter@umsl.edu
Phone
(314) 516-5417
Research Interests

Carpenter focuses most of his research on alcohol, opioid, and cannabis use and co-use, but he is also interested in the use of other substances. His work also examines the effectiveness and feasibility of mobile health (mHealth) interventions to address and prevent substance use in daily life.

Education

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology and minor in Psychological Methods and Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2018.
Clinical internship, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University
Postdoctoral fellowship, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University

Publication

Carpenter, R. W., Hepp, J., & Trull, T. J. (2023). An assessment of the role of pain for nonsuicidal self-injury in a large- scale web. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Access herePreprint

Miller, M. B., Carpenter, R. W., Freeman, L. K., Dunsiger, S., McGeary, J., Borsari, B., McCrae, C. S., Arnedt, T., Korte, P., Merrill, J. E., Carey, K. B., & Metrik, J. (2023). CBT-I for insomnia as a mechanism of change among veterans in alcohol treatment: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA Psychiatry. Access here.

Carpenter, R. W., Acuff, S. F., Meshesha, L. Z. (2023). The role of environmental context in prescribed opioid use and physical pain in daily life. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Access here.

Carpenter, R. W., Emery, N. N., Meisel, S. N., & Miranda, R., Jr. (2022). Naltrexone moderates the association of alcohol use and affect among adolescent drinkers in daily life. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 46, 326-337Access here.

Wycoff, A. M., Carpenter, R. W., Hepp, J., Piasecki, T. M., & Trull, T. J. (2021) Real-time reports of drinking to cope: Associations with subjective relief from alcohol and changes in negative affect. Journal of Abnormal Psychology130, 641-650. Access here.