ADAI News & Events
November 14, 2019
Highly Potent Opioid Carfentanil Found in Seattle
Carfentanil, an opioid 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times stronger than fentanyl, is showing up in Seattle with increasing frequency. In a KOMO News interview, ADAI principal scientist Caleb Banta-Green warns that users don’t know what they’re getting, or the dangers of this drug. View the full story on KOMO News. In…
November 5, 2019
“You don’t cure addiction — you manage it,” says ADAI scientist in interview with Variety.
Caleb Banta-Green, ADAI principal research scientist, told the entertainment news source Variety that “You don’t cure addiction — you manage it actively with counseling. You need to create a new life and a new way of interacting with people in a way that is healthy for you.” The interview was published on November 5 in Variety‘s Recovery…
November 4, 2019
Joe Merrill Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Joseph Merrill, associate professor in General Internal Medicine at the UW, received a lifetime achievement award from the Washington State Health Care Authority’s Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery. The award was presented at the state’s Co-Occurring Disorders Conference in Yakima in October 2019. Dr. Merrill was the driving force behind the initial three-year,…
November 1, 2019
ADAI Small Grant Awards for UW Research on Marijuana
ADAI awarded four Small Grants for Marijuana Research in the September 2019 cycle. The goal of the Small Grants Program is to stimulate research at the University of Washington by supporting promising pilot projects which may ultimately be developed into full studies with outside grant support. Congratulations to the recipients! Michael R. Bruchas, PhD, Professor,…
October 29, 2019
Position Open for ADAI Administrator
ADAI has an outstanding opportunity for an Administrator. This position reports to the Director and is responsible for managing the operations of the institute, financial planning, budget management, grant and contract management, human resources administration, and special projects. As a member of the ADAI Executive Committee, the Administrator participates in policy review and development, long-range…
October 22, 2019
Washington’s Ban on Nicotine Vaping Products is a “Stopgap Public-Health Imperative”
In an op-ed published in the Seattle Times, ADAI research scientist Bia Carlini and WSU professor Laura Hill challenge an earlier column that downplayed the appropriateness of Washington’s ban on nicotine vaping products. Noting the lack of research into these unregulated and widely-available products which have been linked to illnesses in hundreds of individuals and…
“Treat Us Like Human Beings”: New ADAI Report Features Interviews with Syringe Exchange Participants
A new brief from Alison Newman, MPH, Connor Henry, MPH, and Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MPH, MSW, “Treat us like individual human beings”: 2018 qualitative interviews with Washington State syringe exchange participants,” is now available on our Publications & Reports page. To get a richer understanding of the lives of syringe exchange participants, the authors conducted…
October 18, 2019
Sign Up to Get a Monthly Summary of New Opioid/Overdose Research
Susan Kingston of the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute puts out a monthly email newsletter that features the latest in opioid and overdose-related research and commentary. If you’re interested in subscribing, send an email to stopovd@uw.edu. Here’s what was featured in the October 2019 issue: From Local Researchers Engaging an unstably housed population with low-barrier…
October 16, 2019
UW Researchers Receive $40M in NIH Efforts to Address Pain
To address the opioid epidemic, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the HEAL Initiative to support research aimed at helping people with opioid addiction, and exploring safer treatment options for chronic pain. The University of Washington School of Medicine has received multiple awards totaling about $40 million. Included in the HEAL research funding are…
October 4, 2019
Dr. Caleb Banta-Green on “Drugs, Addiction & Recovery”
What do you need to know about substance use disorders and what is the latest science on drugs, addiction, and recovery? Find out from ADAI Senior Research Scientist Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MPH, MSW, who gave a one-hour presentation to King County prosecutors in September on why people use drugs or alcohol, what substance use disorders…
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