This $1,607,146 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) aims to develop community-based technology interventions to encourage drug checking, distribution of harm reduction supplies, and linkage to services for people who use drugs. The award supports a participatory approach to create English and Spanish-language multimedia materials, including short videos and graphic novels, to address...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,948,634.00 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will fund the development and evaluation of a mobile health (mHealth) intervention called "OD-CHESS" to reduce overdose risk among people who engage in polysubstance use. The research project, awarded to the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International), will first adapt an existing substance use disorder intervention...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $1,717,104 over 3 years to adapt and pilot test a Youth Overdose Prevention Toolkit for use in pediatric healthcare settings. The project aims to develop practical, developmentally-appropriate guidance for delivering evidence-based overdose prevention interventions such as naloxone, take-home drug testing, harm reduction education, and...
This $3,096,164 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 evaluate the efficacy and implementation of a peer-led motivational interviewing intervention to promote the uptake of drug checking services and safer drug use behaviors among people who use drugs in San Diego County. The goal is to reduce the incidence of overdose. The study will involve a two-arm randomized controlled...
This $688,271 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 multi-year research project to examine spatial and temporal variability in Connecticut's illicit drug market. The key products and services to be delivered include: Expanding street-based testing of drug samples from a representative sample of people who use drugs, using an adaptive respondent-driven approach. Developing a robust...
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 $3,067,394 project to develop and evaluate a peer-driven "intravention" approach to expand harm reduction services for people who use drugs in rural Appalachia. The project, titled "Engaging People Who Use Drugs in Harm Reduction Service Delivery: An Intravention to Reduce Risk of HIV, HCV, Overdose, and Injection-Related...
This $1,546,482 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) is funding the "Improving Health and Housing Outcomes Through a Simulation and Economic Model (IHOUSE Model)" project. The goal of this initiative is to develop an evidence base for prioritizing and optimizing strategies and structural interventions to improve the health of people experiencing homelessness and decrease racial/ethnic...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will develop and evaluate the efficacy of a universal overdose prevention intervention to be delivered in primary care settings. The $2,467,574 award, effective September 30, 2024, aims to increase youth awareness of fentanyl and other emerging drug risks, knowledge of overdose risk reduction strategies, and ability to recognize and respond to overdoses....
This federal 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 $994,004 research study titled "The Youth Empowerment Study (YES)" to explore perceptions of overdose risk, the unregulated drug supply, and safety precautions among adolescents (ages 13-17) and young adults (ages 18-25). The study aims to investigate perspectives of families, youth providers, pharmacists, and people who use...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,332,500.00, provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to develop a novel model of a prison learning health system to address disparities in HIV treatment, HIV prevention, and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment among incarcerated individuals. The key objectives of this project, which will be embedded in Washington's state prisons, are to: 1) build the foundation for a...