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Steven Joseph Shoptaw (born April 3, 1957) is a licensed psychologist and an experienced researcher focusing on addiction and HIV. His career spans over 30 years. His contributions to the field include more than 400 peer reviewed journal articles and dozens of grants supporting research ranging from observational studies to behavioral interventions to clinical trials.¹

Education

Shoptaw received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1990. He completed his Postdoctoral Scholar in Psychophysiology at UCLA and the VA Sepulveda Medical Center.¹

Career

Shoptaw started his career at Friends Research Institute where he established Safe House², which provided housing for people living with HIV who had a co-occurring mental health or substance use disorder. At Friends Research, he developed Getting Off³, A Behavioral Treatment Intervention for Gay and Bisexual Male Methamphetamine Users, in collaboration with Dr. Cathy Reback.

In 2003, Shoptaw took a position at UCLA. While there, he served as Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Family Medicine. He also served as Director of the UCLA Vine Street Clinic.⁴ Shoptaw led numerous clinical trials of medications to treat stimulant use disorder, including a NIDA Clinical Trials Network trial looking at the use of the medications, naltrexone and bupropion, in combination as a treatment for methamphetamine use disorder, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2021⁵. He also served as Principal Investigator with Drs. Madhukar Trivedi and Jennifer Potter in the Big South-West Node⁶ of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Center for Clinical Trials Network (CCTN).

In 2017, Shoptaw assumed leadership of the NIMH-funded P30 Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services (CHIPTS) taking over from Dr. Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus. As noted on their website⁷, CHIPTS is a collaboration of diverse, multi-disciplinary HIV researchers from UCLA, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Friends Research Institute, and the RAND Corporation.

Shoptaw also developed and co-led the HPTN 094 INTEGRA trial^8,9, a vanguard study of health service delivery in a mobile health delivery unit to link persons who inject drugs to integrated care and prevention for addiction, HIV, HCV and primary care.

From 2022 through 2024, Shoptaw served as the editor-in-chief¹ of the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence (DAD)¹⁰, an international journal dedicated to publishing research, scholarly reviews, commentaries and policy analyses in the areas of drug, alcohol, and tobacco use and dependence.

Shoptaw has been quoted by numerous news outlets on a variety of articles focused on addiction including the Los Angeles Times and New York Times.^{11,12, 13, 14, 15}

Honors and Awards

The Daniel Mendelsohn Young Investigator Award, Friends Research Institute - 1996

The Community Prevention Council & LGBT Tobacco Council Consortia - 2003

13th Annual Spirit of Hope Award, Being Alive – 2005

George Kneller Term Chair in Family Medicine, UCLA - 2024

Public Impact Research Award recipient, UCLA - 2024

Ward Cates Spirit Award recipient, HIV Prevention Trials Network - 2024

Community Service

Volunteer Executive Director, Safe House from 1989 to 2015^1,2

Board Member of Matrix Institute from 1996 to 2003¹

Mission City Community Network, Board Member from 2000 to 2001¹

Board Member, AIDS Project Los Angeles from 2011 to 2016^1,17

Board Member, MusiCares from 2020 to 2022^1,16

References

References

1. UCLA Health. https://www.uclahealth.org/Workfiles/Providers/Steven-Shoptaw-CV.pdf

2. Friends Research Institute website. Mission and History – Friends Research Institute

3. Getting Off Behavioral Manual. https://chipts.ucla.edu/intervention-and-training-manuals/

4. UCLA Vine Street Clinic website. https://www.uclahealth.org/departments/family-medicine/cbam/ucla-vine-street-clinic

5. Trivedi MH, Walker R, Ling W, Dela Cruz A, Sharma G, Carmody T, Ghitza UE, Wahle A, Kim M, Shores-Wilson K, Sparenborg S, Coffin P, Schmitz J, Wiest K, Bart G, Sonne SC, Wakhlu S, Rush AJ, Nunes EV, Shoptaw S. Bupropion and Naltrexone in Methamphetamine Use Disorder. New England Journal of Medicine. 2021 Jan 14;384(2):140-153. PMID: 33497547; PMCID: PMC8111570. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2020214

6. NIDA CCTN Big South-West Node website. Big South-West Node | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

7. CHIPTS website. https://chipts.ucla.edu/about-us/

8. HIV Prevention Trials Network Press Release. HIV Prevention Trials Network Launches HPTN 094 (INTEGRA) Study | The HIV Prevention Trials Network

9. HPTN 094 study webpage. HPTN 094 | The HIV Prevention Trials Network

10. Drug and Alcohol Dependence Journal website. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/drug-and-alcohol-dependence

11. Deadly overdoses fell in U.S. for first time in five years, new estimates show. LA Times. May 15, 2025. Deadly overdoses fall for first time in 5 years, estimates show - Los Angeles Times

12. 48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Here’s How to Get Them Help That Works. New York Times. December 13, 2023 Opinion | 48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Here’s How to Get Them Help That Works. - The New York Times

13. Amid an Overdose Crisis, Many San Diegans Struggle to Access Detox. Voice of San Diego. March 2, 2023. Amid an Overdose Crisis, Many San Diegans Struggle to Access Detox | Voice of San Diego

14. Can a Target gift card help you stay off meth? This L.A. program is trying it”. LA Times. July 4, 2022. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-04/can-target-gift-cards-keep-you-off-meth-california-plans-to-test-it

15. A Medical Treatment For Meth Addiction Proves Effective In New Study. NPR. January 14, 2021. A Medication-Assisted Treatment For Meth Addiction Shows Promise : Shots - Health News : NPR

16. Music Cares Annual Report for FY2021/2022. https://naras.a.bigcontent.io/v1/static/MusiCares_Annual_Report_FY_21_22

17. AIDS Project Los Angeles, 2014 IRS Form 990. Page 8. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/953842506/201610439349302311/full