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Gary A. Zarkin
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Gary A. Zarkin

Director, Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice

Gary A. Zarkin, PhD, has led or participated in several projects involving the economic analysis of drug treatment, prevention, and studies of workplace substance abuse. Dr. Zarkin has published several papers on the cost, cost-effectiveness, and the benefit-cost of substance abuse interventions. He is currently the PI on a grant funded by NIAAA to estimate the cost and cost-effectiveness of the COMBINE intervention, and he is the project director of the State Outcomes Measurement and Management System contract with SAMHSA. He previously led the development of a new method to estimate the cost of services for methadone treatment. Before coming to RTI, Dr. Zarkin was an assistant professor of economics and a research associate professor of statistics at Duke University. He has published on economics, substance abuse, and health service topics in a wide range of professional journals.

Education

PhD, Economics, University of Chicago; MA, Economics, University of Chicago; BA, Economics, University of Washington.

Publications

Lifetime benefits and costs of diverting substance-abusing offenders from state prison — Crime and Delinquency
Zarkin, G.A., Cowell, A.J., Hicks, K.A., Mills, M.J., Belenko, S., Dunlap, L.J., et al. (Nov 2012)
Costs of alcohol screening and brief intervention in medical settings: A review of the literature — Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
Bray, J.W., Zarkin, G.A., Hinde, J.M., & Mills, M.J. (Nov 2012)
Benefits and costs of substance abuse treatment programs for state prison inmates: Results from a lifetime simulation model — Health Economics
Zarkin, G.A., Cowell, A.J., Hicks, K.A., Mills, M.J., Belenko, S., Dunlap, L.J., et al. (Jun 2012)
The effect of alcohol treatment on social costs of alcohol dependence: Results from the COMBINE study — Medical Care
Zarkin, G.A., Bray, J.W., Aldridge, A., Mills, M., Cisler, R.A., Couper, D., et al. (May 2010)
Revisiting the cost-effectiveness of the COMBINE study for alcohol dependent patients: The patient perspective — Medical Care
Dunlap, L.J., Zarkin, G.A., Bray, J.W., Mills, M., Kivlahan, D.R., McKay, J.R., et al. (Apr 2010)
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