Project Grant R34DA051051

This Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), under the Cancer Cause and Prevention Research program (CFDA 93.393), provides $594,099 to Brown University to characterize young adult dual users of marijuana and tobacco using novel behavioral economic measures. The 4-year project aims to better understand the behavioral mechanisms underlying this prevalent and risky pattern of substance use, which is associated with increased cancer risk across the lifespan. Key objectives...

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 federal Project Grant award, in the amount of $798,473, was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The award supports research to develop and evaluate a brief, web-based intervention called Regulation of Craving Training (ROC-T) for smoking cessation. The project aims to test two versions of ROC-T - one focused on reappraisal skills and one on mindfulness-based acceptance - as a preparation intervention to be...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), awarded a $431,643 Project Grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop and test a telehealth-delivered, pain-targeted motivational smoking cessation intervention for smokers with chronic pain who are not ready to quit. The project aims to overcome barriers to in-person treatment by delivering the intervention via telehealth in a Stage 1...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.393 - Cancer Cause and Prevention Research), is focused on developing a cue-based smoking cessation intervention delivered via telehealth for people who smoke lightly (PSLI). The $906,306 award, with a performance period from September 2025 to August 2028, aims to adapt and pilot test an intervention that combines cue-based treatment with standard cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to promote smoking cessation...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $249,108 to Brown University to conduct a multimodal study examining the relationship between cannabis use, trauma, and self-regulatory cognitive processes in emerging adults aged 18-25. The study leverages methodology from a parent NIDA-funded project (R01DA054116) to recruit 70 participants and implement additional self-report and behavioral task...

The U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded a $686,692 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to The Medical University of South Carolina. The grant will fund an 8-week clinical trial to assess the prospective changes in patient-reported and objective functioning following reduction of cannabis use among adults with cannabis use disorder. The trial will evaluate the benefits of cannabis harm...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), through the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), has awarded a $684,694 Cooperative Agreement to New York University (NYU) to develop and evaluate a novel home-based intervention combining transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with mindfulness meditation for the treatment of cannabis use disorder (CUD). The project, titled "Telehealth-Delivered tDCS for Cannabis Addiction Recovery: The C.A.R.E.S. (Cannabis Addiction...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $823,882 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) on July 15, 2025. The TEAM-UP: Tobacco Treatment Navigators Uniting with Primary Care project aims to implement and compare two outreach strategies, a person-based Outreach Navigator (ON) and a technology-based Interactive Patient Portal (IPP), to improve...

This federal Project Grant award, 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 mobile health intervention to reduce cannabis use among youth aged 13-17. Titled "A Digital Intervention to Reduce Youth Cannabis Use", the $280,207 award to Mobile Health Interventions LLC will fund the creation of the "Adolescent CLEAR30" mobile program. This intervention will leverage the...