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August 21, 2025
ADAI Small Grants: Fall Cycle is Open; Apply by October 15, 2025!
ADAI works to stimulate and facilitate UW research on alcohol and drug use and addiction through its Small Grants research program, which awards funds to UW researchers for pilot studies and developmental research. Applications for the fall cycle are now being accepted; apply by 5pm PT October 15, 2025! Research funded through the small grants program has…
NEW from CEDEER: Stimulants and Health: A Handout and Guide for Care Teams
Methamphetamine and cocaine can have serious health effects, but there are steps people can take support their health when they’re using. ADAI’s Center for Community-Engaged Drug Education, Epidemiology & Research (CEDEER) has released a new handout, Stimulants and Health: Support for people who use cocaine and methamphetamine, that offers information on: An accompanying interactive guide is designed for…
August 20, 2025
WATCH: The Empathy Lens Project, a Short Film from NNLM
The Empathy Lens collection, developed by ADAI Information Team staff Meg Brunner, MLIS, and Erinn McGraw, BFA, features free photographs related to drug and alcohol use, prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction. The goal of this project is to reduce stigma against people who use drugs and the services available to support them by encouraging the use of realistic, humanizing…
August 14, 2025
New from CEDEER: Kratom & 7-OH: What Do We Know Abuse Use, Safety, and Overdose Risk?
Kratom is a plant from Southeast Asia. Two of its primary psychoactive components are mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH), both of which have opioid-like properties. Though it has been banned in several states, it remains legal in Washington State, where it can often be found for sale in gas stations or smoke shops. The FDA recently…
August 5, 2025
Northwest ATTC’s Workforce Spotlight Series: Meet Kevin Sweet!
There is a national shortage of addiction care professionals, and societal needs for this workforce are projected to increase over the next decade. While many things contribute to this circumstance, one major challenge is the stigma that often surrounds people with substance use disorders and the care available to them. To reduce stigma about addiction…
July 21, 2025
LGBTQ+ Crisis Hotlines & Mental Health Support
Looking for affirming crisis or mental health support now that the LGBTQ+ 988 crisis line is gone? Check out some of these resources instead. You are loved! Crisis Connections: 24-Hour Crisis LineWA Relay: 7-1-1King County: 1-866-427-4747Pierce County: 1-800-576-7764Southwest Washington: 1-800-626-8137North Central Washington: 1-800-852-2923 Call Blackline1-800-604-5841Centers BI&POC, LGBTQ+, Black Femme Lens StrongHearts Native Helpline1-844-762-848324/7; Centers Native…
July 17, 2025
Children Are Safer When Families Are Supported—Not Separated: Seattle Times Op-Ed
ADAI’s Susan Stoner, PhD, director of the WA State Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP) and the UW Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit (FADU), co-authored a July 16, 2025 opinion piece in the Seattle Times with Jim Walsh, MD, Program Director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Swedish. In the piece, Drs. Stoner and Walsh note recent…
July 9, 2025
WATCH: Fentanyl & Methamphetamine: What’s Happening to Our Community and What Can We Do About It?
Last month, community members gathered at Gonzaga University—and online—for a powerful conversation about the growing impact of fentanyl and methamphetamine in our region presented by the UW School of Medicine–Gonzaga University Health Partnership. Dr. Caleb Banta-Green a highly regarded expert on substance use disorder, treatment, and harm reduction from the UW Addictions, Drug & Alcohol…
July 1, 2025
Two Weeks Left: Let the Northwest ATTC Know What You Want to Learn About and How!
Between now and July 15th, the Northwest ATTC, housed at ADAI, will be collecting needs assessment information from residents of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington via a web-based survey. Your responses will help inform their future training and technical assistance programming for the addiction workforce (counselors, social workers, healthcare providers, peers, prevention folks, harm reduction folks, etc.). The Northwest ATTC would…
ADAI Small Grant Awards for Spring 2025: Opioids and the Brain, Cannabis and Lactation, Asian American Youth Drinking, and Cannabis “Tolerance Breaks”
ADAI is proud to announce the recipients of our Spring 2025 Small Grant awards, whose projects all start today! Check out the four projects below to see what we’ll be learning about next: Investigating Distinct Midbrain GABAergic Subpopulations in Opioid Reward Processing Abigail ElerdingGraduate student, Dept of PharmacologyOmar Koita, PhDSenior fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of…
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