Allan Barger Email & Phone Number

Allan has 25 years of experience in the alcohol/drug field, having worked first as a community volunteer, then as a Prevention Specialist in a Community Mental Health Center. He is now a research analyst/trainer with Prevention Research Institute reviewing research literature on marijuana, other drugs and their effects in the brain and on behavioral outcomes. He is a member of the Research Society on Alcoholism, and the New York Academy of Sciences. He lives in Miami Beach, FL but teaches nationally to professionals in many systems interacting with alcohol/drug-using individuals, including campuses, mental health centers, Juvenile Justice, Drug Court, Judicial Colleges, prevention, treatment & DUI programs. Allan has a Bachelor degree from Berea College, and Masters degrees from Duke University and the University of Kentucky. Allan has four daughters, three grandsons and three granddaughters.

Training involved intensive work with those being prepared to implement the evidence-based PRIME For Life and PRIME Solutions programs. This included teaching both content and group interaction and management skills. I also have done continuing education events for other professionals including mental health professionals, judges, alcohol and drug counselors, probation officers, teachers and clergy. I have been on the faculty annually of the Kentucky School of Alcohol and Other Drug Studies since 1994.

Focus was on adult prevention of alcohol and drug problems, review of research literature on new findings and HIV/AIDS Prevention.

M.S.W., Social Work, Counseling

While at the University of Kentucky, I worked as a research associate processing qualitative data in a statewide initiative to improve.

M.Div., Theology, Pastoral Care/Counseling

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosphy/Religion

Activities and Societies: While working toward my degree,I spent four years at the College's Audio-Visual Department becoming the Head Lab.