This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), supports a 5-year, $2,726,432 research study on co-use of cannabis and prescription opioids among emerging adults in medical settings. The study will enroll emerging adults aged 18-25 who either have no history of cannabis use or have used cannabis in the past month and are prescribed an opioid for acute pain management. Participants will be followed...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the federal Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $842,400 to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to develop chemical biology tools for illuminating cannabinoid signaling pathways in opioid use disorder. The objective is to expand OHSU's cannabinoid chemical biology toolkit, particularly towards the atypical cannabinoid receptor GPR55, and apply these tools in ex vivo and in vivo...
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), provides $715,238.00 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct a multivariate genome-wide association analysis of opioid-related traits in a diverse population of 500,000 individuals. The goal is to improve understanding of the genetic basis of opioid use disorder (OUD) and related pre-addiction stages, such as initial opioid use,...
This federal Project Grant award of $153,000.00 was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The grant supports a 6-month longitudinal study to examine the relationship between cannabis use, pain perception, and daily functioning in young adults with chronic pain. The research will use an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) design to capture real-time data on cannabis use, pain, physical activity, and sleep over...
This $2,118,992 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), supports a longitudinal study investigating the neural and psychiatric consequences of cannabis use in depressed adolescents. The research aims to prospectively examine the effects of cannabis, the most widely used illicit drug among teenagers, on reward and pain neurocircuits in adolescents with depression. The study will evaluate 250...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program, aims to study the effects of cannabis use on treatment outcomes for adolescents with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and co-occurring psychiatric disorders (CODs) in community-based treatment settings. The $197,262 award will leverage mixed methods, including qualitative interviews, an ecological momentary assessment pilot, 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 Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), is funding a $621,186 longitudinal study to examine the impact of circulating endocannabinoid levels on neurocognition, impulsivity, and early cannabis use patterns in youth enrolled in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. The 5-year study, running from July 2025 to March 2030, will be conducted by 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), will fund research to study the neurogenetic mechanisms underlying nicotine and cannabis addiction. The $175,888 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2028, will enable the development of novel transcriptome-connectome analysis methods to identify genes associated with changes in brain functional connectivity related to addiction. The...