Carol J. Boyd, Ph.D., RN, FIAAN, FAAN


Professor Emerita
Deborah J Oakley Collegiate Professor Emerita
Founding Director, Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking & Health (DASH Center)
Department of Health Behavior and Clinical Sciences
Room 2235 NURS1

University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482

 

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Interests

  • Prescription misuse
  • Substance use and misuse
  • Medication diversion
  • Reducing stigmatism perinatal substance users
  • Vulnerable populations (rural & urban adolescents, pregnant women, drug users)

Dr. Carol Boyd is the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health (DASH). In addition to her position as the Deborah J Oakley Collegiate Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, Dr. Boyd is also a Research Professor Emerita, at the Addiction Center, in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. She has conducted mixed-method studies that use advanced technologies to examine the relationship between health and drug, alcohol, and nicotine use. She has had extramural funding to conduct mixed-method studies with women crack smokers (1989-1995, NIH funded), prisoners (1999-2004, MDOC and Robert Wood Johnson funded), adolescents and college students (2003-present, NIH funded), and secondary analytic studies of substance use among high risk populations. Moreover, Dr. Boyd has used innovative technologies to survey adolescents and young adults on substance use and related behaviors. Dr. Boyd was the first researcher (as a Principal Investigator) to develop two web-based surveys, Student Life Survey and Secondary Student Life Survey, to examine substance use and related behaviors among adolescents and emerging adults. The Student Life Surveys were the foundation for five NIH-funded studies and the Secondary Student Life Survey is now being used on smartphones. Dr. Boyd's international experiences include teaching, mentoring, and research in China, Ghana, Jamaica, Liberia, Poland, and Zambia.

Current Research Grants and Programs

  • R01 National Cancer Institute. E-Cigarette Use Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults: Longitudinal Associations with Tobacco Use and Health and Dimensions of Risk and Protection (PI: Evans-Polce RJ; Co-I Boyd CJ). 2022-2025
  • R34 National Institute on Drug Abuse. Rapid Adaptation to Prevent Drug Use (RAPD) (PI: Eisman AB; Consultant: Boyd CJ). 2022-2025
  • R01 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Sexual Fluidity and Longitudinal Changes in Alcohol Misuse and Associated Health Consequences Influences (PI: Evans-Polce RJ; Co-I: Boyd CJ). 2022-2025
  • R21 National Institute on Drug Abuse. Feasibility of an Art-based Intervention to Address Clinician Stigma and Improve Care for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (PI: Shuman CJ; Co-I/Senior Mentor: Boyd CJ). 2021-2023
  • R01 National Institute on Drug Abuse. Trajectories of Nonmedical Prescription Drug Misuse (PI: McCabe Se; Co-I: Boyd CJ). 2019-2024
  • R01 National Institute On Drug Abuse. The Symptom-Associated Pathway to Substance Use and Misuse during Adolescence (PI: Voepel-Lewis TD; Co-I:Boyd CJ). 2021-2026
  • R01 National Institute on Drug Abuse. Prospective Examination of E-Cigarette Use, Tobacco Use Disorder and Health Consequences by U.S. Youth (PI: Boyd CJ). 2018-2022
  • Michigan State Police. Pilot Testing of Community Overdose Assessment Team: A Demonstration Project (PI: Dahlem G; Co-I: Boyd CJ). 2019-2021
  • R01 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Sexual Orientation Discrimination and Health Disparities in DSM-5 Alcohol Use Disorders (PI: McCabe SE; Co-I: Boyd CJ). 2018-2022
  • R01 National Institute on Drug Abuse. Discrimination, Stress and Substance Use Disorder among Sexual Minority Adults: A Secondary Analysis of NESARC-III (PI: Boyd CJ). 2017-2021
  • R01 National Institute on Drug Abuse. Scenario-Tailored Opioid Messaging Program: An Interactive Intervention to Prevent Analgesic-Related Adverse Drug Events in Children and Adolescents (PI: Voepel-Lewis TD; Co-I: Boyd CJ). 2017-2021
  • R01 National Cancer Institute. Health, Stress, and Tobacco Use Disparities among Sexual Minority Populations (PI: McCabe SE; Co-I: Boyd CJ). 2017-2021

Affiliations / Service

  • Editorial Board, Journal of Addictions Nursing, 2002-present

Notable Awards / Honors

  • W. Anderson Spickard, Jr. Excellence in Mentorship Award, Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction, 2025
  • Eva Briggs Award for Community Service, Pleasant Ridge Foundation, 2025
  • Mentorship Award, The College on Problems of Drug Dependence, 2020
  • Betty Ford Award, Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse, 2013
  • President’s Award, International Nursing Society of Addictions, 2006
  • Golden Apple Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1996

Education

  • PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1987
  • MSN, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1982
  • BSN, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 1978
  • BGS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1973

Publication Highlights

  • Rubyan, M., Gouseinov, Y., Morgan, M., Rubyan, D., Jahagirdar, D., Choberka, D., Boyd, C.J., & Shuman, C. (2025). Evaluating the usability, acceptability, user experience, and design of an interactive responsive platform to improve perinatal nurses’ stigmatizing attitudes toward substance use in pregnancy: Mixed methods study. JMIR Human Factors, 12, e67685. doi:10.2196/67685. PMCID: 12099274.

  • Boyd, C., Stoddard, S., Chen, B., Ploutz-Snyder, R., & Voepel-Lewis T. Effect of comorbid psychologic and somatic symptom trajectories on early onset substance use among us youth in the ABCD Study [Supplement]. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 267, 112305. ISSN 0376-8716.  doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.112305.

  • McCabe, S.E., Pasman, E., Wilens, T., Boyd, C.J., Veliz, P., McCabe, V., Chen, B., Dickinson, K., & Evans-Polce, R.J. (2025). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms and later e-cigarette and tobacco use in US youths. JAMA Network Open, 8(2), e2458834. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.58834. PMCID: PMC11815522.

  • Eisman, A.B., Hubbell, A., & Boyd, C.J. (2025). Michigan High School Opioid Misuse Prevention Education (M-HOPE): Adapting a health curriculum to address substance misuse risk. Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 30(4), 166–174. doi.10.1080/29973368.2025.2502878.

  • Voepel-Lewis, T., Stoddard, S.A., Ploutz-Snyder, R.J., Chen, B., & Boyd, C.J. (2025). Effect of comorbid psychologic and somatic symptom trajectories on early onset substance use among U.S. youth in the ABCD Study. Addictive Behaviors, 160, 108181. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.108181. PMCID: PMC12051135.

  • Shuman, C.S., Choberka, D., Morgan, M.E., & Boyd, C.J. (2024). ArtSpective™ for perinatal substance use: Feasibility of an arts-based intervention addressing stigma. Journal of Addictions Nursing;35(2), 43-50. doi:10.1097/JAN.0000000000000577.

  • Boyd, C.J., McCabe, S.E., Evans-Polce, R.J., Voepel-Lewis, T., Shuman, C., & Veliz, P. (2022). Adolescents' nicotine/tobacco dependency symptoms using 4 waves of PATH data. Health Behavior and Policy Review, 9(4), 980-995. doi:10.14485/HBPR.9.4.6. PMCID: PMC10237283.

  • McCabe, S.E., Hughes, T.L., Fish, J.N., Hoak, S., Kcomt, L., Evans-Polce, R.J., Engstrom, C., Leary, K., Veliz, P., West, B.T., McCabe, V.V., & Boyd, C,J. (2022). Is it all in the family? Sexual identity differences in DSM-5 alcohol and other drug use disorders and associations with alcohol and other drug misuse history among parents, offspring, and other relatives. Substance Abuse,43(1), 1277-1285. doi:10.1080/08897077.2022.2095080. PMCID: PMC10469272.

  • Shuman, C.J., Isaman, D.J., Morgan, M.E., Kukora, S.K., Rubyan, M., Veliz, P.T., & Boyd, C.J. (2022). Validity and reliability of the Modified Attitudes About Drug Use in Pregnancy Scale. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing,51(3), 324-335. doi:10.1016/jogn.2022.02.006.

  • Boyd, C.J., McCabe, S.E., Evans-Polce, R., & Veliz, P.T. (2021). Cannabis, vaping and respiratory symptoms in a probability sample of United States youth. Journal of Adolescent Health, 69(1), 149-152. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.01.019. PMCID: PMC8238794.

  • Boyd, C.J., Veliz, P., Evans-Polce, R., Eisman, A.B., & McCabe, S.E. (2020). Latent class trajectories: U.S. adolescents’ nicotine use and its association with nicotine dependence. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 12, 100303. doi:10.1016/j.abrep.2020.100303. PMCID: PMC7752718.

  • McCabe, S.E., Hughes, T.L., West, B.T., Evans-Polce, R., Veliz, P.T., Dickinson, K., McCabe, V.V., & Boyd, C.J. (2020). Sexual orientation, adverse childhood experiences, and comorbid DSM-5 substance use and mental health disorders in the United States. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 81(6). doi:10.4088/JCP.20m13291. PMCID: PMC7790524.

  • Veliz, P.T., McCabe, S.E., Evans-Polce, R.J., & Boyd, C.J. (2020).  Assessing how the history of e-cigarette and cigarette use are associated with the developmental course of marijuana use in a sample of United States adolescents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 216, 108308. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108308. PMCID: PMC7606514.

  • McCabe, S.E., Veliz, P., McCabe, V.V., & Boyd, C.J. (2019). Initiation sequence of E-cigarette and cigarette smoking among US adolescents: A national study. The American Journal on Addictions, 28(4), 285-294. doi:10.1111/ajad.12886. PMCID: PMC6591086.

  • Boyd, C.J., West, B.T., & McCabe, S.E. (2018). Does misuse lead to a disorder? The misuse of prescription tranquilizer and sedative medications and subsequent substance use disorders in a U.S. longitudinal sample. Addictive Behaviors, 79, 17-23. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.11.042. PMCID: PMC5884701.

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