This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the federal Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), is providing $189,500.00 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on lowering cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among people with opioid use disorder (OUD). The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) examine the relationship between OUD and time to major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), 2) determine barriers and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the NIH's Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will fund a $751,043 research project at the University of Massachusetts Medical School focused on investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the complex co-morbidity of opioid use disorder (OUD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and HIV in the human brain. The project will leverage single-cell sequencing technologies and other...
This federal Project Grant award of $421,499 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) to the University of Missouri System aims to develop a comprehensive model and measure of intervention stigma toward medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD). The project will leverage expert panels and psychometric techniques to identify key domains driving intervention stigma from the perspectives of decision makers, healthcare personnel, and the...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $267,696 Project Grant under CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs to the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), a minority-serving institution, for the project "Enhancing Opportunities for Addiction Research in the Merrimack Valley." The project aims to expand UML's existing Public Health Informatics and Technology (PHIT) program by creating a new PHIT-AR (Addiction Research) track. This will recruit diverse...
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 $187,164 to Temple University to conduct a mixed methods research study on the impact of "Institutions for Mental Diseases" (IMD) Medicaid waivers on the utilization of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD). The 5-year study aims to: 1) Characterize the features of IMD waivers across jurisdictions, 2) Quantify the impact of...
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 $722,876 to New York University School of Medicine to conduct a 5-year study characterizing complex opioid use disorder (OUD) care trajectories and outcomes following acute service utilization. The research aims to: 1) characterize real-world OUD treatment trajectories in the year following hospital encounters among treatment-naive...
This federal Project Grant award of $683,583 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will support research to estimate the potential impacts of four alternative methadone treatment (MT) policy scenarios in New York State. The project will use an agent-based computer simulation model to analyze how changes to MT access points, such as through OTPs, mobile units, prescribers, and pharmacies, could influence methadone...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the federal Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), supports research to identify and validate G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) expressed by somatostatin-expressing inhibitory neurons in the prefrontal cortex as potential targets for developing new treatments for opioid use disorder. The $1,717,200 award, spanning August 1, 2024 to May 31, 2029, will enable researchers at the University of...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), is intended to design tailored harm reduction strategies to address the escalating drug overdose crisis in the United States. The $2,316,128 award, with a project period from September 15, 2024 to July 31, 2028, will support collaborative efforts with health departments and community partners across six jurisdictions (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York...
This $4.68 million project grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, will fund research under the Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The University of Michigan will conduct a prospective cohort study of 400 adults with opioid-involved polysubstance use in Michigan. Researchers will collect detailed weekly data on participants' substance use patterns and motivations over four weeks to understand nuanced profiles...