This federal Project Grant award of $459,045, provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), is for a study titled "The Cascade of Care for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Identified Through a Large Public Health System." The study aims to modify the existing Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Cascade of Care model to better reflect the changing landscape of real-world OUD treatment, enabling critical research...
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 intended to investigate whether a pharmacist-integrated model of opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment can increase naloxone co-prescribing in primary care. The $193,336 award to Trustees of Dartmouth College will fund a research project with three aims: (1) describing federal, state, and clinic-level policies and OUD interventions impacting...
This Project Grant award of $1,607,146.00 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) supports the development of a technology-based intervention to encourage drug checking, distribution of harm reduction supplies, and linkage to services for people who use drugs. The project, titled "Together Against Overdose: Community Developed Technology to Encourage Drug Checking, Distribution of Harm Reduction Supplies, and...
This federal 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 develop and evaluate the efficacy of a universal overdose prevention intervention to be delivered in primary care settings. The $2,467,574 award will fund a pilot two-arm cluster randomized controlled trial at Boston Medical Center to assess the acceptability and feasibility of the intervention for providers and youth ages 13-26. The...
This Project Grant award of $2,316,128.00 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to design tailored harm reduction strategies to address the opioid overdose crisis across six distinct jurisdictions. The project, titled "REVERSING OVERDOSE EPIDEMICS THROUGH SIMULATION, COLLABORATION, AND UNIFIED EFFORTS (RESCUE)", will collaborate with health departments and community partners to assess the...
This federal Project Grant award of $721,217 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) aims to increase naloxone availability and use in high-risk settings, specifically public libraries, to reduce opioid overdose mortality. The key objectives are to: 1) understand institutional barriers and facilitators of naloxone uptake in public libraries, 2) establish a public libraries cohort to monitor naloxone uptake and overdose...
This $3,096,164 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will fund a study to evaluate the efficacy and implementation of a peer-led Motivational Interviewing (MI) intervention called MI-CHANCE. The intervention aims to promote uptake of drug checking services (DCS) and safer drug use behaviors among people who use drugs (PWUD) in San Diego County to reduce overdose incidence. The 5-year study will...
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...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $3,896,298 Project Grant under CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs to The Leland Stanford Junior University. The grant, titled "Families Left Behind: Addressing Prolonged Grief and Substance Use Disorders Among People Bereaved by Drug Overdose Deaths," aims to partner with Peer Support Community Partners, LLC and the RAND Corporation to adapt and pilot test a peer grief support intervention for individuals...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will fund a $1,377,306 multi-jurisdictional study to transform the evidence base on the prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD) and the impact of opioid agonist treatment (OAT) as a strategy to prevent opioid-related deaths. The study, titled "TRANSFORM - Transforming the Evidence Base on Estimating Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder and Expanded Access...