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 $163,568 to Brown University to conduct a multimodal study integrating biobehavioral markers and ecological assessment of the relationship between cannabis use, trauma, and self-regulatory cognitive processes. The study aims to examine how cognitive processes related to decision-making, such as reward motivation and inhibitory control,...
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 $2,726,432 to study the co-use of cannabis and prescription opioids among emerging adults ages 18-25 in medical settings. The 5-year study, beginning in September 2024, will enroll emerging adults with and without a history of cannabis use who are prescribed opioids for acute pain management. The research aims to identify risk and...
This $668,110 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will fund the development and acceptability testing of a technology-based intervention to reduce cannabis misuse among college students. The project aims to refine an existing intervention that provides information on cannabis products, marketing, laws, and risks to increase young adults' cannabis literacy. The research will involve focus groups with...
This Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.393 - Cancer Cause and Prevention Research) provides $594,099 to Brown University to conduct research on the behavioral mechanisms underlying dual use of marijuana and tobacco among young adults. The research aims to use novel behavioral economic measures, including a cross-price elasticity of demand task and cross-cue reactivity assessment, to characterize this dual substance use and its relationship to cancer risk. The...
This $376,078 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will support research to explore the relationship between cannabis use for coping purposes and quantity/frequency of cannabis use. The 5-year study, set to commence on August 1, 2024, will be conducted by the University of Colorado. Key objectives include: Experimentally testing whether cannabis use increases after stress induction among...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,118,992.00 was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The grant will fund a research project at the University of Miami to prospectively investigate the effects of cannabis use on reward and pain neurocircuits in adolescents with depression. The study aims to understand the relationships between cannabis use and depression in this population in order to inform prevention...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $233,250 to The Washington University in St. Louis to examine the relationship between early cannabis use and later opioid use disorder. The key objectives are to: 1) Estimate the association between early cannabis use and both proximal and distal aspects of opioid involvement, including whether the relationships are modified by co-occurring...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,383,618.00 was issued by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The award supports research to investigate how adolescent cannabis use, specifically delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), affects the maturation of the prefrontal cortex and cognitive function through microglia-mediated mechanisms. The primary awardee, The Johns Hopkins University, will leverage previous work to identify...
This $2,419,326 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will support a longitudinal study on neurobehavioral and psychosocial predictors of health risk behaviors from adolescence to young adulthood. The study aims to assess developmental trajectories of decision-making brain systems and their associations with substance use and other risky behaviors, as well as examine how psychosocial risk...
This Project Grant award, with the Federal Grant ID F32DA060612, was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The total award amount is $360,100.00, with a period of performance from September 13, 2024 to April 14, 2026. The project aims to study the socio-structural determinants of cannabis and derived psychoactive cannabis product use and consequences among young adults. This research is particularly timely...
This Project Grant award for $2,838,472 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will fund a prospective mixed-methods investigation to characterize cannabis use trajectories among young adults aged 18-25. The study aims to identify factors associated with hazardous cannabis use and understand how micro-transitions and critical life events during young adulthood influence changes in cannabis use patterns. Applying a behavioral economic framework, the research will examine how internal (e.g., craving) and external (e.g., new employment) influences on domains such as access to alternative reinforcers, delay discounting, and cannabis demand relate to escalation or reduction in cannabis use. The study, to be conducted by Brown University, is scheduled to run from July 2024 through April 2029.