The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation a $3,092,159 Project Grant under the Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to conduct a multimodal analysis of gestational health and placental injury in opioid-affected pregnancies. The goal is to investigate the direct impact of illicit and prescription opioids on placental development, differentiation, and function, focusing on the critical syncytiotrophoblast and...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $1,873,868 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to The Washington University in St. Louis. The grant is for the "Substance Use in Pregnant People - Optimizing Retention in Treatment by Maximizing Opportunities for Management (SUPPORT-MOM)" project, which aims to develop and test the efficacy of contingency management (CM) interventions to improve substance use disorder (SUD) treatment...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) totaling $945,397 provides funding to the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation, with a sub-award to the University of Pittsburgh, to adapt and evaluate a collaborative care model (CCM) for treating pregnant persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) in low-resource obstetric settings. The key objectives are to: 1) adapt the CCM for rural and low-resource...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $1,360,092 to The Medical University of South Carolina to conduct a study titled "Real-World Assessment of Social Functioning During OUD Treatment: Integrating Reports from Patients and Their Concerned Significant Others." The study aims to examine how affiliative social engagement behaviors, social reward, and social connection...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded The Washington University a 3-year, $2,337,729 Project Grant under the Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to study the impact of prenatal opioid exposure on placental and fetal brain development. The project, titled "The Opioid in Pregnancy: Imaging of Oxygenation, Inflammation, and Development in Brain & Placenta" (OPIOID BPP), aims to define the longitudinal effects of prenatal opioid exposure on...
This National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Project Grant award under CFDA 93.279 (Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) provides $390,635 to the University of Pittsburgh to develop a novel intervention that addresses prenatal depressive symptoms to encourage tobacco and cannabis cessation among marginalized pregnant and postpartum people. The key products and services to be delivered through this grant include: 1) Conducting formative research on the experiences of marginalized pregnant...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $306,528 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to Addinex Technologies, Inc. The grant will fund the development of a medication adherence and monitoring system to support decentralized clinical trials for substance use disorder (SUD). The project aims to adapt Addinex's existing medication management system to provide researchers running SUD clinical trials with a tool for at-home dispensing that...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) provides $844,475 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to test a bundled intervention aimed at increasing treatment uptake for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and nonfatal opioid overdoses after emergency department (ED) discharge. The proposed intervention combines telehealth, peer support, buprenorphine prescribing, and linkage to...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) is funding the development and implementation of a digital, decision-support toolkit to increase screening, assessment, and referral for intimate partner violence (IPV) and associated mental health conditions, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in opioid treatment programs. The total award amount is $1,826,522, with a project period from September...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will pilot an innovative digital Contingency Management (CM) treatment delivered via mobile device to Medicaid beneficiaries with co-occurring opioid and alcohol use disorders. The $390,000 award, spanning from September 2024 to August 2027, aims to: 1) identify optimal approaches to engage Medicaid beneficiaries in digital CM through Medicaid claims data...