Jonathan JK Stoltman, PhD

Jonathan Stoltman

Research Interests

Dr. Stoltman is a co-Investigator for MI CARES a Michigan State University-based comprehensive resource and education system working to reduce stigma around substance use disorders and increase access to evidence-based treatment across the country and across disciplines. His work has focused on addiction stigma reduction across domains, including his role as co-Director of the non-profit Reporting on Addiction. RoA works to increase the accuracy and empathy of news coverage about drug use and addiction by working with professional and student journalists, journalism educators, experts through training and experts through experience. His research and writing over the past decade as an addiction scientist cuts across this work and has been featured in leading journals, national conferences, and media outlets including NPR, CNN, Drug and Alcohol Dependence and JAMA Internal Medicine.

Bibliography

Dr. Stoltman has training and advocacy experience in at the intersection of addiction and life-span developmental psychology, research methods, digital health, reproductive/sexual health. He received his PhD in Life-span Developmental Psychology (2019) from West Virginia University.