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March 8, 2022
Results from the 2021 WA State Syringe Service Program Health Survey
The biennial WA State Syringe Service Program Health Survey is the state’s primary source of data on the substance use patterns, health behaviors, and health care needs of people who use drugs and utilize syringe service programs (SSPs). The University of Washington’s Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute (ADAI) conducts the survey in collaboration with Public…
February 28, 2022
Webinar: Implications of Cannabis Legalization for Quitlines (March 2, 11am)
March 2, 2022 | 11:00am-12:30pm PT In this webinar from the North American Quitline Consortium, ADAI Research Scientists Beatriz Carlini, PhD, MPH and Gillian Schauer, PhD, MPH, along with Michael Tynan from the CDC, will discuss the implications of cannabis legalization for quitlines. A panel of presenters will share an overview of the current cannabis…
February 24, 2022
Webinar: When MOUD Doesn’t Go According to Plan (March 9, 12pm)
When making plans with patients to start or stay on Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) sometimes the plan comes together perfectly and other times it doesn’t. Join Addy Adwell BSN, RN and Mark Duncan, MD on March 9, 2022 (12-1pm PT) for a webinar focused on the not-according-to-plan times in our work with special…
February 16, 2022
New from ADAI/FADU: Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Mental Health at Midlife
The effects of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) have been studied a lot, with a particular focus on physical birth defects and neurocognitive development. Much less studied has been an association between PAE and mental health disorders, especially for adults with both PAE and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Though some research has found a connection…
February 15, 2022
Apply for an ADAI Small Grant!
The Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute (ADAI) works to stimulate and facilitate UW research on alcohol and drug use and addiction through its Small Grants Program, which awards funds to UW researchers (faculty and research scientists or mentored pre-doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows) for pilot studies and developmental research. Applications for the spring cycle are…
February 11, 2022
February 16: Meeting People Where They Are in the Emerald City: Approaches for People Experiencing Homelessness
The UW Center for Health Innovation and Policy Science (CHIPS) is hosting a 4-part online seminar series on homelessness. The second session, on February 16 (12-1pm PT), will feature ADAI Principal Research Scientist Caleb Banta-Green, as well as Seema Clifasefi of the UW Harm Reduction Research and Treatment Center, talking about projects at the UW…
January 31, 2022
New from ADAI: Distributing Safer Smoking Supplies Can Help Reduce Health Risks of Opioid/Stimulant Use
In Washington State and across the country, fentanyl has quickly become a major opioid in the illicit drug supply. Fentanyl, especially in pill form, is most often smoked rather than injected. Similarly, methamphetamine is most typically smoked and its use and fatal overdoses have increased rapidly in recent years. Harm reduction programs, including syringe services programs (SSPs), do a great job…
January 28, 2022
CTN/ATTC Webinar: Pathways to Recovery from Addiction in Mutual Help Groups (Feb. 23)
February 23, 2022 | 11:00am – 12:30pm (PT)1.5 CME & CE availableRegister here The goal of the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network/Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) webinar series is to help scholars and clinicians in the addiction field stay abreast of cutting edge science. In this webinar, Keith Humphreys, PhD (Stanford University) will…
January 26, 2022
New from ADAI: Cannabis Industry Marketing Violations in WA, 2014-2019
UPDATE (December 2023): This paper was named the 9th most-cited paper of 2022 in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs! There’s a conflict between prevention and profit when it comes to marketing by the cannabis industry in Washington State, say ADAI researchers Beatriz Carlini, PhD, Sharon Garrett, MPH, MA, and Caislin Firth, PhD,…
January 21, 2022
ADAI Is Hiring! 80% FTE Research Scientist/Engineer for PCAP and Northwest ATTC
ADAI (in UW Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) is currently recruiting for an 80% FTE Research Scientist/Engineer to support the Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP, 55% FTE) and the Northwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center (Northwest ATTC, 25% FTE). This position will be responsible for evaluation methodology, data operations, analysis strategy, and presentation of findings to policy makers,…
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