Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute

November 14, 2024

Cannabis Projects

Current projects (as of July 2026) Clinical Resources for Cannabis Health Adverse Outcomes: Enhancing Health Care Providers’ Ability to Intervene on Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome and Cannabis Induced Psychosis October 2025 – June 2027 Status: Resources under development and testing Patients presenting with cannabis-related adverse events (AEs) and other problems are growing more prevalent in health care settings across the U.S. and Canada, increasing the…


Educational Resources

Websites for Public Education Learn About Cannabis – WA First developed in 2015, the LearnAboutCannabisWA.org website is updated annually. It was created in response to a legislative mandate that partially funds ADAI for the “creation, maintenance, and timely updating of web-based public education materials providing medically and scientifically accurate information about the health and safety…


November 30, 2023

Nepenthe and ADAI Today/ADAI News Archive (1973-1995)

From 1973 until 1995, ADAI published a semi-regular newsletter first called Nepenthe and later titled ADAI Today and ADAI News. These newsletters discussed regional and national research in the addictions field, coursework and lectures at ADAI and the University of Washington, local legislation and policy issues, information about funding through ADAI’s Small Grants program and the UW, and a variety…


January 30, 2023

High THC Policy | Final Report: Exploring Policy Solutions: Report to the WA Legislature

High THC Policy | Final Report. Exploring policy solutions to address public health challenges of high THC products. Final report to the WA Legislature from WA HCA and the ADAI Cannabis Education & Research Program

To address this emerging public safety challenge of increasingly available high-THC products (e.g. dabs, wax, concentrates), the WA State Health Care Authority was directed by ESSB 5092 (2021) to contract with the University of Washington’s Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute (ADAI) to identify areas of common ground and consensus, and develop recommendations for state policies related to cannabis concentration…


June 29, 2022

Speakers

Keynote Speakers Jonathan Caulkins, PhDProfessor of Operations Research and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College Dr. Caulkins specializes in systems analysis of problems pertaining to drugs, crime, violence, COVID-19, and prevention, work that earned him the David Kershaw Award from the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, a Robert Wood Johnson Health Investigator Award…


May 17, 2022

College Students/Educators

On this page, you’ll find websites and other tools with information and data/statistics of particular relevance to college students, teachers, and other educators. Got a resource to suggest? Email Meg Brunner at meganw@uw.edu.


Parents/Community Groups

On this page, you’ll find websites and other tools with information and data/statistics of particular relevance to parents, community groups, and the general public. Got a resource to suggest? Email Meg Brunner at meganw@uw.edu.


Professionals/Providers

On this page, you’ll find websites and other tools with information and data/statistics of particular relevance to professionals and providers in the substance use disorder field. Got a resource to suggest? Email Meg Brunner at meganw@uw.edu.


May 16, 2022

Trending Topics

On this page, you’ll find websites and other tools with information and data/statistics related to substance use in Washington State, with a particular focus on substances that have been in the news a lot. Got a resource to suggest? Email Meg Brunner at meganw@uw.edu.


January 11, 2022

Health Services Research

Spanning a science-to-service continuum, Dr. Bryan Hartzler’s professional endeavors promote adoption and implementation of useful treatment and recovery practices in community settings where they may benefit persons with substance use disorders.  Trained as a clinical psychologist, his two decades of scientific work at UW has principally focused on empirically supported behavior therapies (foremost among them applications of…


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