Amie Haas, PhD

Dr. Amie Haas is a Professor of Psychology in the PhD Program at PAU and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her specialization in substance use and addiction, with an emphasis on adolescents and young adults. She currently teaches CLIN839 (Substance Use and Addictive Disorders) and ASMT818 (Psychopathology and Psychodiagnosis II: Child and Adolescent Disorders) and is the director of the Palo Alto Addictions Research Center (PAARC).

At the present time, Dr. Haas has two active areas of research. Her first area focuses on the identification of high-risk drinking and emerging drug use practices in adolescents and college age adults. Her prior research has focused on issues like pregaming, conjoint alcohol-cannabis use, and AmED consumption, focusing on their links with adverse consequences like blackouts, alcohol-related sexual risk behaviors, overdoses, and campus policy violations. She has collaborated with several universities in the San Francisco Bay area to develop and evaluate existing campus alcohol policies and help implement harm reduction strategies on campus.  More recently, she has partnered with a residential drug treatment center and is researching how the fentanyl epidemic is changing the needs patients have who are seeking drug rehabilitation, and ways to improve treatment retention through tailored intervention programming.  

Dr. Haas received her undergraduate degree from U.C. Irvine, her master’s in psychology from San Diego State University and her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Florida, with graduate minors in behavioral pharmacology and quantitative methods. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Palo Alto VA Health Care System and a post-doctoral fellowship at University of California San Francisco in substance abuse treatment and health services.  Her clinical interests include assessment, addiction psychology, adolescents/young adults, and neuropsychology.