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New Year, New Look for the CTN Bulletin!
The CTN Bulletin is now using the MailChimp platform! MailChimp has several benefits over our previous method for these messages: If you have any questions, comments, or challenges with the new format, please let us know! Email us at ctnlib@uw.edu. Subscribe to the CTN Bulletin here!
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NIDA CTN DI Mentor-Facilitated Training Awards Develop Future Leaders in SUD Education
Since 2012, the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network Dissemination Initiative (NIDA CTN DI) Mentor-Facilitated Training (MFT) awards have supported health care trainees in the dissemination of best practices in substance use disorder (SUD) screening, prevention, and treatment. Physicians, physician associates, nurses, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists across the country have benefited from the program, which funds year-long, mentored dissemination projects. MFT awardees identify gaps in evidence-based SUD knowledge and treatment delivery, and address these gaps by creating trainings, workshops, and tools and resources for their colleagues and other providers in health care settings, schools, and communities. “Being a part of the MFT program opened my eyes to the…
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New in the Library, Dec. 2023-Jan. 2024
Here are the latest items added to the CTN Dissemination Library for December 2023 – January 2024 (this post will be updated as new items come in): Webinars Alliances to Disseminate Addiction Prevention and Treatment (ADAPT): A Learning Health System to Improve Evidence-based Practices and Treatment, presented by Matt Aalsma, PhD. (CTN Translation & Implementation SIG webinar, 2023) Human-Centered Implementation Science? Improving the Design and Adaptation of Our Best Interventions and Strategies, presented by Aaron Lyon, PhD. (CTN Translation & Implementation SIG webinar, June 2023) When to Start Caring About Implementability: Pretty Much Now, presented by Geoffrey Curran, PhD. (CTN Translation & Implementation SIG webinar, May 2023) Journal Articles Co-occurring…
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News from the Appalachian Node
A rural clinic in New Martinsville WV affiliated with the Appalachian Node and West Virginia University has been selected as a site in CTN-0102-XR study Rural Expansion of Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder. This is a Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial of Extended-release Buprenorphine (XR-BUP) vs. Sublingual Buprenorphine-naloxone (SL-BUP) in rural settings. The study is anticipated to get underway in the first quarter of 2024. Posted on 1/10/2024
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Primary Care SIG Webinar: Primary Care Practice Engagement: The SPARC Trial (Jan. 22, 12pm ET)
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Center for the Clinical Trials Network (CCTN) Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) SIG is transitioning to a Primary Care SIG (revitalizing the PBRN into primary care focus). To launch this, the Primary Care SIG is hosting a webinar titled Primary Care Practice Engagement: The SPARC Trial to Increase Alcohol-Related Prevention and Treatment. This virtual meeting is scheduled for Monday, January 22, 2024 from 12:00 p.m.– 1:00 p.m. ET. Speaker: Kathy Bradley, M.D. (Health Systems Node) Description: Dr. Bradley will speak on her team’s experience engaging primary care clinics in the SPARC trial. SPARC used practice facilitation, EHR tools and performance feedback, to implement alcohol-related prevention and treatment across 25 primary care clinics: 3 pilot…
