Dr. Leonardo Estacio is a NIDA INVEST/CTN Fellow at the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute for September 2009-2010. The INVEST/CTN Drug Abuse Research Fellowship teams non-U.S. drug abuse scientists with mentors from the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) to combine postdoctoral research training with professional development activities and grant-writing guidance. Dr. Estacio has a a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology, a master's in Community Development, and a master's in Public Health, with an emphasis on drug abuse research and mental health. He studied at Johns Hopkins University where he was a Hubert H. Humphrey's Fellow. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the University of the Philippines, Manila.

Primary Research Interests:

• Community-based approaches for drug abuse prevention
• Amphetamine-type stimulant abuse among adolescents
• Quantitative approaches to epidemiological studies and data analytics
• Neuroscience of addictive behaviors

Current and Completed Projects:

• INVEST/CTN Drug Abuse Research Fellowship. As part of the fellowship, Dr. Estacio will be preparing a grant proposal about amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) abuse research among adolescents in the Philippines and other countries in Southeast Asia.
  
  
• SMART Youth Center Project. Drug treatment and prevention for out-of-school youth in Manila, Philippines. Recipient of the 2008 International Prevention Award (Bright Idea Category) from Mentor International.
  
  
• Assessment Report of the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) Project on Primary Prevention of ATS Abuse Among the Filipino Youth. Principal Investigator, August 2007.
  
  
• The Use of Children in Illicit Drug Trafficking in the Philippines: A Participatory Action Research for Child/Family and Community Empowerment. International Labor Organziation (ILO) Project in Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia: December 2004.
  

Recent and Representative Publications:

1. Estacio L. Resiliency approach to addressing drug addiction: A paradigm shift to building drug- resistance communities in the Philippines. U.P. Manila Journal 2009;61-85.


2. Estacio LR. How to conduct community-based drug prevention research. Bangkok: UNODC Report (e-manual), 2007.


3. Estacio LR. How to conduct a validation workshop. Bangkok: UNODC Report (e-manual), 2007.


4. Estacio LR. An outcome study of the knowledge, attitude, behavior of the Filipino youth on ATS abuse. Bangkok, UNODC (e-report), 2007.


5. Estacio LR. Community-based prevention and elimination of children-in-drugs in the Philippines: Sourcebook for policymakers, service provicers, researchers and trainers. Manila: ILO-IPEC and Addictus-Philippines, Inc. (e-manual), 2005.


6. Estacio LR Jr. Primary prevention of ATS abuse among youth in the Philippines: Rapid assessment report with implications for development of primary prevention themes and messages. Report submitted to the Dangerous Drug Board Republic of the Philippines, October 2003, 83p.


7. Estacio L, Ponce E (eds). Philippine Sourcebook on Prevention. Manilla: PHILCADSA Publication, 1998.

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