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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…
Webinar: What’s the Latest: Methamphetamine and Psychosis (March 6, 12pm PT)
Join the ADAI State Opioid Response (SOR) team on March 6, 2024 (12-1pm PT) for the next installment in their “What’s the Latest” webinar series: Methamphetamine and Psychosis. With the growing use of methamphetamine, methamphetamine associated psychosis is a problem that more and more providers are seeing. This problem can impact the ability of patients…
RECORDING AVAILABLE: Youth Substance Use Prevention Education + Harm Reduction (Feb 13, 3pm PT)
The ADAI’s Center for Community-Engaged Drug Education, Epidemiology & Research (CEDEER) hosted a webinar on February 13 (3-4pm PT) about a curriculum to help prevent youth overdose deaths. Watch the recording here! Youth overdose deaths continue to rise due to fentanyl, despite a decline in youth substance use overall. This webinar will discuss Safety First,…
February 5, 2024
New from ADAI: Threat, Distract, and Discredit: Cannabis Industry Rhetoric to Defeat Regulation of High THC Cannabis Products in WA
Citation: Carlini BH, Kellum LB, Garrett SB, Nims LN. Threat, distract, and discredit: Cannabis industry rhetoric to defeat regulation of high THC cannabis products in Washington State, USA. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 2024 (in press). doi: 10.15288/jsad.23-00277 Cannabis industry actors have adopted several arguments used by alcohol, pharmaceutical, food, and tobacco industry…
February 4, 2024
RECORDING AVAILABLE: Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Community-Engaged Drug Education, Epidemiology & Research in WA State
(Originally posted January 4, 2024; updated February 4, 2024) The recording is now available for the UW Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences‘ January 26, 2024 (12-1pm PT) Ripley Memorial Lecture, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, featuring the director of the ADAI Center for Community-Engaged Drug Education, Epidemiology & Research (CEDEER), Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MPH, MSW! Watch…
February 1, 2024
Webinar: Cannabis and Mental Health (Feb. 28, 11am PT; 1.5 CME/CE available)
The Northwest ATTC (at ADAI), the Pacific Southwest ATTC, and the Western States Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN) are hosting their next joint webinar on February 28, 2024, from 11am-12:30pm PT. In this session, Natania Crane, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Director of the UIC Recovery Clinic, will provide current information…
January 24, 2024
New from CERP: Personal Experiences with High-THC Cannabis
Twenty years ago, most cannabis contained 10% or less THC, and anything higher was considered very potent. Today, cannabis flower (the plant) can be as high as 25% THC, and other cannabis products contain as much as 60-90%. Cannabis concentrates, such as shatter, wax, vaping cartridges, dabs, and butters, made up 35% of the Washington…
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