IOM report: 10 years after & more coming.

The IOM Report from 1998 (“Bridging the Gap Between Practice and Research: Forging Partnerships with Community-Based Drug and Alcohol Treatment”), published by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, used real-life experiences in addiction treatment to examine why research remains remote from treatment and made specific recommendations to community providers, federal and state agencies, and other decision-makers. One of those recommendations was that NIDA and other institutes in the field support the development of an infrastructure to facilitate research within a network of community-based treatment providers.

In this presentation, Oregon State Representative Mitch Greenlick, PhD, reviews those recommendations and describes elements of the CTN that create the perfect setting in which to move forward with community participation in research and the ability of that research to impact policy transformation in the long term.