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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,…
January 3, 2022
Position Opening: Postdoc Fellowship in Alcohol Research at University of New Mexico
Note: This is not a UW/ADAI position, but is being shared on behalf of colleagues at CASAA/Univ. New Mexico. The Center on Alcohol, Substance use, and Addictions (CASAA) at the University of New Mexico has at least one opening for a post-doctoral fellow on our NIAAA Institutional Research Training grant starting August 2022. The goal of the…
December 16, 2021
New ADAI Report: Housing Program Staff Want More Training to Address Substance Use
To learn more about the needs of housing professionals who work with people who use substances, ADAI staff Alison Newman, MPH and Susan Kingston conducted an anonymous, online survey in September 2021. The objectives of this survey were to: identify successes and challenges, determine how knowledgeable and comfortable staff feel in working with substance use,…
December 10, 2021
Harborview Seeking 100% FTE Research Study Assistant for NIH Opioid Use Disorder Study
The Department of Emergency Medicine at Harborview Medical Center is seeking a full-time Research Study Assistant for an NIH-funded, randomized controlled trial designed to help individuals with opioid use disorder, the Emergency Department Longitudinal Integrated Care (ED-LINC) study. (Note: this is not an ADAI position.) Two years of college-level course work in a relevant academic…
December 8, 2021
New ADAI Report: Dramatic Increases in Opioid Overdose Deaths Due to Fentanyl Among Young People in WA
Use of illicitly manufactured fentanyl has had an outsized impact on overdose deaths in Washington State, according to a new report from ADAI/UW Psychiatry research scientists Caleb Banta-Green and Jason Williams. Fentanyl use and overdose deaths appear to mostly affect these populations: young adults inexperienced with opioid use young adults with rapid onset opioid use…
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