Debra A Pinals

 Debra A. Pinals
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Program Director, Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, Medical School
Intermittent Lecturer in Law, Law School
Available to mentor
Debra A Pinals
Debra A. Pinals
Program Director
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    • Chapter
      Applying the recovery model in prisons and jails
      Andrade JT, Pinals DA. 2026 Mar 5; Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry, 257 - 262. DOI:10.1093/med/9780197774007.003.0041
    • Journal Article
      Justice system experiences and health risks among Medicaid and uninsured populations receiving treatment for substance use disorder.
      O'Neil MM, Pryor J, Johnson RA, Kim M, Nguyen C, Pinals DA. J Subst Use Addict Treat, 2025 Dec 26; 209863 DOI:10.1016/j.josat.2025.209863
      PMID: 41456667
    • Journal Article
      How Mental Illness Influences Pretrial Release Decisions for People Charged with Misdemeanors
      Graca GM, Potkin MT, Dragich SE, Pinals DA, Pope LG, Ford EB. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 2025 Dec 3; 53 (4): 405 - 414. DOI:10.29158/JAAPL.250074-25
      PMID: 41285546
    • Journal Article
      Differences in opioid use and overdose among younger and older justice-impacted adults
      O’Neil MM, Kepner W, Gerber G, Wojciekowski T, Pinals D. Health and Justice, 2025 Dec 1; 13 (1): DOI:10.1186/s40352-025-00367-z
    • Journal Article
      Attending to Persons with Intellectual and/or Other Developmental Disorders in Crisis Settings
      Anacker L, Edwards M, Nonnemacher S, Pinals DA. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2024 Sep 1; 47 (3): 563 - 576. DOI:10.1016/j.psc.2024.04.024
      PMID: 39122346
    • Chapter
      Determination of Decisional Capacity
      Grover MW, Ali AZ, Pinals DA. 2024 Sep 6; Tasman’s Psychiatry, 4731 - 4749. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-51366-5_66
    • Journal Article
      A legal dispute resolution intervention for patients with substance use disorders: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
      O’Neil MM, Johnson RA, Córdova D, Pryor J, Pinals DA. BMC Public Health, 2023 Dec 1; 23 (1): DOI:10.1186/s12889-023-15296-5
      PMID: 36879259
    • Journal Article
      Examining the Impact of State-Level Factors on HIV Testing for Medicaid Enrollees with Schizophrenia
      Thomas MD, Vittinghoff E, Koester KA, Dahiya P, Riano NS, Cournos F, Dawson L, Olfson M, Pinals DA, Crystal S, Walkup J, Shade S, Mangurian C, Arnold EA. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2023 Sep 1; 94 (1): 18 - 27. DOI:10.1097/QAI.0000000000003225
      PMID: 37229531