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May 8, 2024
ADAI in the News – Cannabis Edition
ADAI’s Director, Susan Ferguson, PhD, was recently featured in two news pieces about the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s move toward reclassifying cannabis as a less dangerous drug by lowering it from Schedule I to Schedule III. (What do these terms mean?) In an article for the AP that discusses numerous impacts such a change might…
May 6, 2024
Two New Reports from ADAI CEDEER: Kratom and Contingency Management
ADAI’s Center for Community-Engaged Drug Education, Epidemiology, and Research (CEDEER) has two new reports out this week! Kratom: What do we know about its use, safety, and overdose risk? Mandy Sladky, MSN, RN, CARN, and Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MPH, MSW Kratom is a psychoactive substance made from the leaves of the Mitragyna speciosa tree that…
April 22, 2024
Results from the 2023 WA State Syringe Services Program Health Survey
Involving people who use drugs in meaningful ways to design and deliver the services offered to them is important. People who use drugs have clear preferences, insights, and innovative ideas for service models and are eager to share their perspectives when given genuine opportunities for input and involvement. To capture some of that vital information,…
April 17, 2024
ADAI in the News
ADAI’s Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MPH, MSW, Director of the Center for Community Engaged Drug Epidemiology, Education & Research (CEDEER), was featured in two news articles in the past week: A sliver of hope in a record-setting year of deaths of homeless people. Seattle Times, April 17, 2024. (free link)Fentanyl-related fatal overdoses continue to devastate King County’s…
April 10, 2024
TOMORROW: Narcare Forum @ UW Featuring 2 ADAI Presenters (Alison Newman & Samyukta Singh) – April 11, 5pm PT
Narcare, an RSO (Registered Student Organization) at the University of Washington, is organizing a forum on the opioid crisis as a public health issue. Despite being one of the leading causes of death in the United States, opioid overdose deaths are ignored, or worse, normalized by public discourse. The purpose of this forum is to…
April 1, 2024
ADAI’s Dr. Mandy Owens Presenting About the CLEARS Project on April 17, 2024
ADAI Assistant Professor Mandy Owens, PhD, will be presenting at a webinar later this month for the Northwest Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Collaborative (ROTA C) about the CLEARS Project. This project, funded by the Washington State Health Care Authority, uses a “policy codesign” approach to bring together law enforcement, people with lived/living experience of drug…
March 5, 2024
Webinar: How Humor Helps: Using Therapeutic Humor to Support Clients (March 27, 12pm PT)
Join the Northwest ATTC on March 27, 2024 for their next webinar: How Humor Helps: Using Therapeutic Humor to Support Clients (12-1pm PT). Humor has long been recognized as a powerful tool in therapy, capable of breaking down barriers, fostering rapport, and promoting healing. This interactive session presented by Mallori DeSalle, MA, LMHC, NCC, CMHC,…
February 29, 2024
New Research: Pharmacists Who Participated in the Respond to Prevent Intervention to Accelerate Provision of Harm Reduction Materials
Citation: Irwin AN, et al. “I go out of my way to give them an extra smile now:” A study of pharmacists who participated in Respond to Prevent, a community pharmacy intervention to accelerate provision of harm reduction materials. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 2024 (in press). Community pharmacies are well-positioned to improve the…
February 27, 2024
New ADAI Publication: ER Utilization and Meth Overdose Symptoms Among Syringe Services Program Participants in WA
Citation: Noah D. Frank, Caleb J. Banta-Green, Brandon L. Guthrie, Susan Kingston, Joe Tinsley, Lauren Whiteside & Sara N. Glick. Emergency Room Utilization and Methamphetamine Overdose Symptoms Among Syringe Services Program Participants in Washington State. Subst Use & Misuse 2024 (in press). This new study co-authored by Caleb Banta-Green and Susan Kingston of ADAI’s CEDEER…
February 14, 2024
Apply for an ADAI Small Grant! (Deadline March 15)
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. This program awards funds to UW researchers for pilot studies and developmental research related to substance use and/or addiction, with topics ranging from pharmacology of drugs to studies of…
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