Project Grant R01DA064494
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) provides $187,023 to Baystate Medical Center, Inc. in Massachusetts. The purpose is to conduct a mixed-methods study to determine the impact of the state's Behavioral Health Supports for Justice-Involved Individuals (BH-JI) program on healthcare utilization, costs, and overdose outcomes for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) upon release from...
- The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under CFDA Program 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs, awarded a $1,548,605 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) to test the effectiveness of the Jail ECHO Operations, Planning, and Strategy (J-ECHO OPS) implementation strategy to increase access to Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) in rural jails. The study, titled "Improving Jail Response to the Overdose Crisis: A Hybrid Trial of Jail...
- This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will support a clinical research hub to study the implementation and impact of a Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP) waiver in 4 Massachusetts county jails. The $1,600,955 award, effective from Sep 1, 2025 to May 31, 2030, will be administered by the University of Massachusetts. The research aims to understand how the MIEP waiver, which...
- The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $677,250 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to the University of Miami. The grant, awarded on June 15, 2025, supports the development and testing of the "Healthcare Empowerment and Advocacy for Recovery from Trafficking (HEART) Intervention" for implementation in syringe service programs. The project aims to engage women with experiences of...
- 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 study to characterize treatment utilization and identify predictors of treatment engagement during the critical community re-entry period for adults with opioid use disorder (OUD) who have completed residential OUD treatment. The $147,486 award, with a performance period from December 20, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will leverage innovative...
- This $181,681 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the NIH Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to integrate a harm reduction-focused behavioral intervention into the Formerly Incarcerated Transition (FIT) primary care program. The grant will fund a three-part research study to: 1) Identify barriers and facilitators to implementing the harm reduction therapy in a primary care setting through qualitative interviews; 2)...
- This Project Grant award of $722,917 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, will fund a 5-year study to evaluate a new approach for dispensing methadone to incarcerated individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) in three state prison systems. The project aims to support widespread implementation of the hospital/clinic designation, which allows carceral facilities to stock and dispense methadone for OUD treatment, by launching a...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), totaling $444,826, is focused on adapting and testing an innovative, trauma-informed intervention to reduce overdose risk among women re-entering the community from prison. The key activities include: 1) Adapting the Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) approach by engaging stakeholders to align it with the unique needs of justice-involved women,...
- This $147,486 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) will support a mixed-methods study examining the predictors and outcomes of methadone and buprenorphine receipt during incarceration. The study will analyze a longitudinal database on health service use and outcomes among 4,558 incarcerated individuals who received these medications from 2016-2023 at a unified jail and prison system in the Northeast....
- The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $1,445,752 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to New York University School of Medicine. The grant, titled "Characterizing Complex OUD Care Trajectories and Outcomes Following Acute Service Utilization: A Population-Based Data Linkage Study," aims to apply novel research approaches to better understand real-world opioid use disorder (OUD)...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded a $731,275 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) to support the "Supporting Treatment Access and Recovery in Re-entry (STAR-R)" study. The 5-year study will evaluate the effectiveness of the "Maintaining Independence and Sobriety through Systems Integration, Outreach, and Networking-Criminal Justice Version (MISSION-CJ)" intervention in improving treatment engagement, reducing substance use, and decreasing overdose risk for 240 individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders in criminal justice settings. The MISSION-CJ intervention provides 6 months of integrated treatment, prosocial and recovery services, and assertive outreach. The study aims to demonstrate that the MISSION-CJ approach leads to greater treatment engagement, reduced substance use, and lower overdose risk compared to standard peer linkage support. The award will support the implementation and evaluation of this promising comprehensive re-entry approach to address the complex needs of this high-risk population.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 9/19/25 | ||
| Not listed | $731.3k | 8/27/25 |