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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…
June 26, 2025
New ADAI Publications: Youth Access to OUD Care, MOUD for Native Communities, Peer Delivery of Contingency Management, Barriers/Facilitators for PrEP
Various ADAI faculty and staff (bold names below) recently published four new papers on a wide variety of subjects. See what we’ve been working on below! Adolescent and young adult access to opioid use disorder care. Ball A, Winstead T, Singh S, Floyd A, Banta-Green C. Pediatrics 2025;156(1):e2024070224. Conducting an implementation intervention study with American…
June 25, 2025
New CEDEER Report: Use of Harm Reduction & Drug Treatment Among Syringe Services Program Participants
Citation: Newman A, Winstead T, Layman L. “I think one enhances the other”: Use of harm reduction and drug treatment among participants of syringe services programs. Seattle, WA: Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, June 2025. Watch the webinar! The authors and representatives from…
June 18, 2025
Recordings Available: Focus on Meth Symposium: June 12, 2025
The ADAI Center for Community-Engaged Drug Education, Epidemiology and Research (CEDEER) hosted a 1-day virtual symposium on June 12, 2025. Focus on Meth 2025 examined the scope and impact of methamphetamine use in WA State. Listen in on the conversation with diverse experts, including people with lived/living experience of meth use, to learn about the latest…
June 13, 2025
Virtual & In-Person Lecture: Fentanyl & Methamphetamine: What’s Happening to Our Community and What Can We Do About It? (June 24, 6pm PT)
Fentanyl and methamphetamine are having serious health impacts in our community. What are these drugs, why are people using them, how are they impacting our community, and what can we do? Dr. Caleb Banta-Green, ADAI Research Professor and expert in substance use disorder, treatment and other interventions, and Dr. Amy Burns, a Spokane-based psychiatrist with expertise in…
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