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 Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $450,313 to Trustees of Dartmouth College to conduct research on the impact of psychotherapeutic advertising claims and mental health warning labels on online cannabis purchasing behaviors among individuals with symptoms of depression and/or anxiety. The study aims to investigate whether psychotherapeutic advertising claims increase cannabis...
This federal Project Grant award of $360,100.00 was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), to George Washington University. The funding will support research on the "Socio-Structural Determinants of Cannabis and Derived Psychoactive Cannabis Product Use and Consequences Among Young Adults." The project aims to investigate the increasing use of cannabis and derived psychoactive cannabis products,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to investigate the impact of prenatal exposure to cannabis on childhood adiposity and cardiometabolic health outcomes. The $234,000 award, with a performance period from August 2024 to July 2026, will support a study using a well-characterized observational cohort in Colorado to measure the levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (D9-THC) and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the federal Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $768,528 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to evaluate the "SMART Talk: Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Curriculum." The project aims to (1) determine if the curriculum is effective in increasing adolescents' cannabis knowledge and reducing positive attitudes and intentions to use cannabis, and (2) evaluate the...
This 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 multi-method study to determine the addiction potential of concept-flavored cigarillos among young adult cigarillo users. The $752,701 award, with a project period from August 2025 to May 2030, will examine how cigarillo flavor type (concept, characterizing, tobacco) and flavor additives impact product appeal, smoking behavior, and...
This 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 systematic analysis of over 3.1 million internal industry documents to understand how prescription opioid manufacturers marketed their products as safe and non-addictive to patients, healthcare providers, and regulators. The $2,041,992 grant will be awarded to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for the period of...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) to the Cambridge Public Health Commission, doing business as the Cambridge Health Alliance, will provide $177,110 to study the impact of cannabis legalization and commercialization on substance use and mental health outcomes among individuals with psychosis. The research will utilize quasi-experimental difference-in-difference methods to analyze data from the Population...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will provide $249,108 to Brown University to conduct a multimodal study integrating biobehavioral markers and ecological assessment to examine how cognitive processes related to decision-making, such as reward motivation and inhibitory control, relate to cannabis use among young adults following a potentially traumatic event. The study will leverage the...
This Project Grant award of $994,004, awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to engage adolescents, young adults, parents, providers, pharmacists, and people who use drugs to generate knowledge to guide future overdose prevention interventions tailored for youth. The key objectives are to: 1) explore perceptions of overdose risk, drug supply, and safety precautions among 13-17 and 18-25 year olds through focus...