Selected Publications
Aikins, R. (2019). “The White version of cheating?” Ethical and social equity concerns of cognitive enhancing drug users in higher education. Journal of Academic Ethics, 17(2), 111–130.
Aikins, R., Zhang, X., & McCabe, S.E. (2017). Academic doping: Institutional policies regarding nonmedical use of prescription stimulants in U.S. higher education. Journal of Academic Ethics.
Aikins, R. D., Christian, M. E., & Harper, S. R. (2017). The NCAA on drugs: Players, performance-enhancing drugs, and the need for tougher testing policies and practices. In S. R. Harper & J. K. Donnor (Eds.), Scandals in College Sports. New York: Routledge.
Morton, C. M., Hoefinger, H., Linn-Walton, R., Aikins, R., & Falkin, G. P. (2015). What are youth asking about drugs? A report of NIDA Drug Facts Chat Day. Journal of Drug Education. 45(3-4), 195–210. DOI: 10.1177/0047237915622084
Aikins, R., Golub, A., & Bennett, A. (2015). Readjustment of urban veterans: A mental health and substance use profile of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in higher education. Journal of American College Health, 63 (7), 482–494.
Harris, S., Nikulina, V., Gelpí-Acosta, C., Morton, C., … Aikins, R., Smith, V., Barry, V., & Downing, M. J. (2015). Prescription Drug Diversion: Predictors of Illicit Acquisition and Redistribution in Three U.S. Metropolitan Areas. AIMS Public Health, 2(4), 762–783. DOI 10.3934/publichealth.2015.4.762
Aikins, R., Hoefinger, H., Guarino, H., Rosenblum, A., Magura, S., & Joseph, H. (2015). Conducting rapid street assessment of drug users in NYC using oral fluid and brief interviews: A feasibility study. Journal of Addictive Diseases.doi:10.1080/10550887.2015.1059118.
Aikins, R. (2015, April 9). High achievers. Times Higher Education, pp. 34–41.
Aikins, R. (2015). From recreational to functional drug use: The evolution of drugs in American higher education: 1960–2014. History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society, 44(1), 25–43. doi: 10.1080/0046760X.2014.979251.
Aikins, R. (2012, August 15). Olympics, doping, genes, and other inconsistencies in ‘performance enhancement’ and sport. Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (University of Florida).
Aikins, R. (2011). Academic performance enhancement: A qualitative study of the practices and beliefs of stimulant using college students. Journal of College Student Development, 52(5), 560–576.