Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2010
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Gun Sales: Comparative effectiveness of different minimum age standards for firearm purchase by adults with youthful crime records in North Carolina, Florida, and Virgin awarded by  New Venture Fund 2018 - 2021
  • Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Gun Sales: Comparative effectiveness of different minimum age standards for firearm purchase by adults with youthful crime records in North Carolina, Florida, and Virgin awarded by Joyce Foundation 2018 - 2021
  • A feasibility study for testing the effects of extended-release naltrexone (Vivitrol) on recidivism and other participant outcomes in drug court settings awarded by Laura and John Arnold Foundation 2016 - 2019
  • Implementing Psychiatric Advance Directives with Peer Specialist Facilitators awarded by Department of Health and Human Services 2015 - 2016
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Robertson, AG, Easter, MM, Lin, H, Frisman, LK, Swanson, JW, and Swartz, MS. "Medication-Assisted Treatment for Alcohol-Dependent Adults With Serious Mental Illness and Criminal Justice Involvement: Effects on Treatment Utilization and Outcomes." The American Journal of Psychiatry 175, no. 7 (July 2018): 665-673.  Full Text
    • Swanson, J, Easter, M, Brancu, M, VA Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup, , and Fairbank, JA. "Informing Federal Policy on Firearm Restrictions for Veterans with Fiduciaries: Risk Indicators in the Post-Deployment Mental Health Study." Administration and Policy in Mental Health 45, no. 4 (July 2018): 673-683.  Full Text
    • Robertson, AG, Easter, MM, Lin, H-J, Frisman, LK, Swanson, JW, and Swartz, MS. "Associations between pharmacotherapy for opioid dependence and clinical and criminal justice outcomes among adults with co-occurring serious mental illness." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 86 (March 2018): 17-25.  Full Text
    • Easter, MM, Swanson, JW, Robertson, AG, Moser, LL, and Swartz, MS. "Facilitation of Psychiatric Advance Directives by Peers and Clinicians on Assertive Community Treatment Teams." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 68, no. 7 (July 2017): 717-723.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Swanson, JW, Norko, MA, Lin, HJ, Alanis-Hirsch, K, Frisman, LK, Baranoski, MV, Easter, MM, Robertson, AG, Swartz, MS, and Bonnie, RJ. "Implementation and effectiveness of connecticut's risk-based gun removal law: Does it prevent suicides?." Law and Contemporary Problems 80, no. 2 (January 1, 2017): 179-208.
    • Swanson, JW, Easter, MM, Robertson, AG, Swartz, MS, Alanis-Hirsch, K, Moseley, D, Dion, C, and Petrila, J. "Gun Violence, Mental Illness, And Laws That Prohibit Gun Possession: Evidence From Two Florida Counties." Health Affairs (Project Hope) 35, no. 6 (June 2016): 1067-1075.  Full Text
    • Robertson, AG, Swanson, JW, Lin, H, Easter, MM, Frisman, LK, and Swartz, MS. "Influence of Criminal Justice Involvement and Psychiatric Diagnoses on Treatment Costs Among Adults With Serious Mental Illness." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 66, no. 9 (September 2015): 907-909.  Full Text
    • Easter, M. "Interpreting genetics in the context of eating disorders: evidence of disease, not diversity." Sociology of Health & Illness 36, no. 6 (July 2014): 840-855.  Full Text
    • Easter, MM. ""Not all my fault": genetics, stigma, and personal responsibility for women with eating disorders." Social Science & Medicine (1982) 75, no. 8 (October 2012): 1408-1416.  Full Text
    • Cadigan, RJ, Easter, MM, Dobson, AW, Davis, AM, Rothschild, BB, Zimmer, C, Sterling, R, and Henderson, G. ""That's a good question": university researchers' views on ownership and retention of human genetic specimens." Genetics in Medicine : Official Journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 13, no. 6 (June 2011): 569-575.  Full Text
    • Easter, MM. "Freedom in speech: Freedom and liberty in U.S. presidential campaign discourse, 1952-2004." Poetics 36, no. 4 (August 1, 2008): 265-286.  Full Text
    • Henderson, GE, Churchill, LR, Davis, AM, Easter, MM, Grady, C, Joffe, S, Kass, N, King, NMP, Lidz, CW, Miller, FG, Nelson, DK, Peppercorn, J, Rothschild, BB, Sankar, P, Wilfond, BS, and Zimmer, CR. "Clinical trials and medical care: defining the therapeutic misconception." Plos Medicine 4, no. 11 (November 2007): e324-null.  Full Text
    • Easter, MM, Linnan, LA, Bentley, ME, DeVellis, BM, Meier, A, Frasier, PY, Kelsey, KS, and Campbell, MK. ""Una mujer trabaja doble aqui": Vignette-based focus groups on stress and work for Latina blue-collar women in eastern North Carolina." Health Promotion Practice 8, no. 1 (January 2007): 41-49.  Full Text
    • Easter, MM, Henderson, GE, Davis, AM, Churchill, LR, and King, NMP. "The many meanings of care in clinical research." Sociology of health & illness 28, no. 6 (September 2006): 695-712.  Full Text
    • Henderson, GE, Easter, MM, Zimmer, C, King, NMP, Davis, AM, Rothschild, BB, Churchill, LR, Wilfond, BS, and Nelson, DK. "Therapeutic misconception in early phase gene transfer trials." Social Science & Medicine (1982) 62, no. 1 (January 2006): 239-253.  Full Text
    • King, NMP, Henderson, GE, Churchill, LR, Davis, AM, Hull, SC, Nelson, DK, Parham-Vetter, PC, Rothschild, BB, Easter, MM, and Wilfond, BS. "Consent forms and the therapeutic misconception: the example of gene transfer research." Irb 27, no. 1 (January 2005): 1-8.  Full Text
    • Henderson, GE, Davis, AM, King, NMP, Easter, MM, Zimmer, CR, Rothschild, BB, Wilfond, BS, Nelson, DK, and Churchill, LR. "Uncertain benefit: investigators' views and communications in early phase gene transfer trials." Molecular Therapy : the Journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 10, no. 2 (August 2004): 225-231.  Full Text
    • Easter, MM, Davis, AM, and Henderson, GE. "Confidentiality: more than a linkage file and a locked drawer." Irb 26, no. 2 (March 2004): 13-17.  Full Text
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Moving Forward with Psychiatric Advance Directives in North Carolina. NAMI NC Annual Conference. National Alliance on Mental Illness-NC. October 7, 2016  2016

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