Who Developed the ADAS?
The ADAS was developed at R.M.B.S.I. with Small Business Innovative Research grant funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 1983-1986.
The three co-authors of the survey are Fred Beauvais, Ph.D., Ruth Edwards, Ph.D., and Eugene Oetting, Ph.D. All three of the authors of the ADAS have many years experience conducting research on youth substance abuse prevention through the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Ruth Edwards, Ph.D.
Trained as a social/environmental psychologist, Ruth Edwards is a Senior Research Scientist and the Director of the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University. She has conducted research on drug and alcohol, violence and other social problems among youth for over 30 years with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other federal and private agencies. She has authored numerous professional and lay articles. In addition to co-authoring RMBSI's surveys, Dr. Edwards is one of the authors of the Community Readiness Model. She is the former Executive Director of RMBSI, and consults with communities on readiness issues and on "marketing for prevention" through FlashStone Research & Consulting, LLC. Dr. Edwards also serves on the Editorial Board of the international journal, Substance Use and Misuse.Fred Beauvais, Ph.D.
Fred Beauvais is a clinical psychologist who has published over 75 articles resulting from his 30 years of research into the nature of drug use problems among American Indian and other ethnic minority youth. He has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He serves on the Editorial Boards for Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and Ethnicity and Drug Abuse. Dr. Beauvais is a Senior Research Scientist at the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University, and previously served as Director of Research for RMBSI.Eugene R. Oetting, Ph.D.
Gene Oetting was one of the original founders of Rocky Mountain Behavioral Science Institute, Inc. He developed the Prevention Planning Model on which the Prevention Planning Survey was based, and also is a co-author of the Community Readiness Model. Recently retired, Dr. Oetting thoroughly enjoyed a distinguished career as a professor of Psychology and as Principal Investigator and Scientific Director of the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University. He has an extensive publishing record in the areas of youth drug abuse, survey development and social psychology. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the journals Substance Use & Misuse, Social Pharmacology, and Drugs and Society.
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