Abstract Issues In 2011, the Institute of Medicine released a report that constituted the first
comprehensive effort by a federal body to understand the current state of science pertinent …

Policy changes have resulted in dramatic increases in access to cannabis for medical
purposes. Veterans are disproportionately affected by conditions for which medical cannabis …

Here we report a large genome-wide association study (GWAS) for longitudinal smoking
phenotypes in 286,118 individuals from the Million Veteran Program (MVP) where we …

Background Although HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) substantially diminishes the
likelihood of HIV acquisition, poor adherence can decrease the HIV-protective benefits of …

Objective: We examined the relationship between alcohol use trajectories and HIV disease
severity among men and women participating in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) …

Background: Unhealthy alcohol use may be particularly detrimental among individuals living
with HIV and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV), and is often under-reported. Direct biomarkers of …

Objective: To examine health and identity differences between older (50+) and younger (<
50) lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) veterans. Methods: Participants (N …

Background Unhealthy alcohol use has adverse effects on HIV treatment. Screening, brief
intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) has some evidence of efficacy but may not be …

Background Gay, bisexual, and other men-who-have-sex-with-men (GBMSM) continue to be
disproportionately affected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Although HIV pre …

Alcohol consumption is one of the most prevalent correlates of antiretroviral therapy (ART)
adherence, yet causal processes underlying this association remain largely unexplored. The …