What’s New in the CTN?
Updates from the NIDA National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network. Want to share some news about your protocol, node, publications or presentations, or other CTN-related work here and/or in the CTN Bulletin? Email us at ctnlib@uw.edu!
New in the CTN Library: September-October 2023
Here are the latest items added to the CTN Dissemination Library for September-October 2023 (this post will be updated as new items come in): Potential Effect of Antidepressants on Remission from Cocaine Use Disorder — A Nationwide Matched Retrospective Cohort Study. Gao Z, et al. Drug & Alcohol Dependence 2023;251:110958. CTN-0114 Individual-Level Risk Prediction of Return to Use During Opioid Use Disorder Treatment. Luo SX, et al. JAMA Psychiatry 2023 (in press). CTN-0027, CTN-0030, CTN-0051 Training Opportunities to Leverage the CTN Network. Crump A. Webinar presented at the NIDA Steering…
News from the Health Systems Node
Gwen Lapham, PhD, MPH, MSW, recently published Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder and Reasons for Use Among Adults in a US State Where Recreational Cannabis Use Is Legal, in JAMA Network Open. Dr. Lapham led the CTN-0077 study and is a PROUD (CTN-0074) co-investigator and Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) assistant investigator and addictions health services researcher. She is also an assistant affiliate professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, and assistant professor in the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. Since joining KPWHRI,…
News from the New York Node: John Rotrosen Retires!
(pictured above: John Rotrosen, Ned Nunes, and Jennifer McNeely, leadership of the NY Node) The NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry had retirement party on October 4th celebrating John Rotrosen MD and his remarkable career! John joined NYU in 1968 as a medical student, stayed on through a research residency in psychiatry, and since, as faculty, most of that time overseeing clinical and research programs at Bellevue Hospital and the VA, with generous research funding mostly from the NIH and the VA. A highlight of all of those years…
News from the Western States Node: Apply to the LEAD Program
The Learning for Early Careers in Addiction and Diversity (LEAD) program, a NIDA-funded science education program focused on addictions research training is recruiting a new cohort of scholars. The program trains early career substance use disorder researchers from racial/ethnic minoritized groups that are underrepresented as NIH funded investigators. The program announcement includes eligibility criteria and instructions about how to submit an application for consideration. Find the application here. The requirements are on the application, which include the following: Posted October 13, 2023
News from the Pacific Northwest Node: 2 Top Docs!
Andrew Saxon, MD (VA Puget Sound, UW Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences), and Joseph Merrill, MD (UW Medicine), both long-time members of the CTN’s Pacific Northwest Node, were recently included in Seattle Met Magazine’s “Top Docs of 2023” feature (both in the category of Addiction Medicine). Congratulations, Drs. Saxon and Merrill, and thank you for your continued support of the CTN and the Pacific Northwest Node! Posted October 12, 2023
Northeast Node webinar: Exploring the Intersection of SUDs and Suicide – October 25 (12pm ET)
Join the CTN Northeast Node on October 25, 2023 for the next webinar in their Science Series (1 CME available): Exploring the Intersection of Substance Use Disorders and Suicide: Recent Research and Clinical ImplicationsPresented by Peter Jongho Na, MD, MPH (Yale School of Medicine) October 25, 2023 | 12-1pm ETZoom meeting ID: 919- 7631 6490Passcode: 870392 Suicide and the opioid/opioid overdose epidemics have been major public health problems in the U.S. over the past two decades. This talk will cover recent research on the intersection of substance use disorders (opioid…
CTN Library Website May Be Unavailable All/Part of Friday, October 6
We are doing some updates to our web server on Friday, October 6 that may result in the CTN Dissemination Library website and resources being unavailable for several hours between 8am-5pm PT. If you try to access the site and it’s down, try again in a few hours. If you need a resource immediately, please email the CTN Dissemination Librarian (Meg Brunner) at meganw@uw.edu and I can try to pull it for you!
Recording available: Training Opportunities to Leverage the CTN Network (CTN Steering Committee Meeting, September 2023)
This presentation for the NIDA CTN Steering Committee Meeting held on September 18, 2023, featured Aria Crump, ScD, Deputy Director of the NIDA Office of Research, Training, Diversity and Disparities and Director of the NIDA Office of Diversity and Disparities. This 35-minute presentation provides information about different types of funding available through NIDA, focusing on career development and workforce diversity. Dr. Crump reviewed a range of different types of NIDA awards, including R, T, and K awards, HEAL Initiative awards, and unique programs like NIDA’s Loan Repayment Program, which helps…
Post-Doc Position Open for Spring 2024 (University of Miami Center for HIV and Research in Mental Health (CHARM))
Directed by Drs. Daniel Feaster (MPI, CTN Florida Node Alliance), Sannisha Dale, and Viviana Horigian (Executive Director, CTN Florida Node Alliance), and housed under the University of Miami Center for HIV and Research in Mental Health (CHARM), CHANGE – Culturally-focused HIV Advancements through the Next Generation for Equity – offers a great opportunity to develop the next generation of researchers with the expertise to successfully address HIV and Mental Health disparities throughout the HIV prevention and treatment cascades using community-engaged research, implementation, and dissemination. We are now accepting applications from interested post-doctoral candidates…
CTN Steering Committee Meeting (virtual, Sept. 19, 2-4pm ET)
CTN members are invited to join the next CTN Steering Committee Meeting, which will be held virtually on September 19, 2023 (2-4pm PT). The agenda will include final study reports for CTN-0134 (Buprenorphine-Precipitated Withdrawal Hotspots and Correlates) and CTN-0105 (Integrating Pharmacy-Based Prevention and Treatment of Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders: A Survey of Pharmacists and Stakeholders), as well as a presentation from the Office of Research Training, Diversity, and Disparities on training opportunities to leverage the CTN Network (funding mechanisms and programs). Download the agenda here. Zoom connection information:…
New in the Library: August-September 2023
Here are the latest items added to the CTN Dissemination Library for August-September 2023 (this post will be updated as new items come in): Capturing Drug Use Patterns at a Glance: An n-ary Word Sufficient Statistic for Repeated Univariate Categorical Values. Odom GJ, et al. PLoS One 2023 (in press). CTN-0094 Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder and Reasons for Use Among Adults in a US State Where Recreational Cannabis Use is Legal. Lapham GT, et al. JAMA Network Open 2023;6(8):e2328934. CTN-0077-Ot Integrative Data Analysis of Clinical Trials Network Studies to…
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Youth SIG Webinar: Parent-to-Parent Community Support: Helping Families Come Into Contact with Evidence-Informed Concepts and Strategies in the Context of Shared Lived Experience (Nov. 3, 11am ET)
The CTN Youth SIG is pleased to invite you to an upcoming presentation/webinar: Title: Parent-to-Parent Community Support: Helping Families Come Into Contact with Evidence-Informed Concepts and Strategies in the Context of Shared Lived Experience. Presenter: Ken M Carpenter, PhDResearch Scientist, Division on Substance Use Disorders, New York State Psychiatric InstituteDirector of Training, CMC:Foundation for Change Date/Time: November 2, 2023, 11am-12pm ET Zoom link: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/94616304667?pwd=MHhGUjBzcmVNUVVlV1IyT0hjR3YrUT09Zoom Meeting ID: 946 1630 4667Passcode: 047757Phone one-tap:US: +16469313860,,94616304667#,,,,*047757# US +13017158592,,94616304667#,,,,*047757# Dr. Carpenter’s more recent community-based work has focused on developing resources that can be utilized by parent peer support…
New from the New England Consortium Node
New England Consortium Node member: Angela Haeny, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the Racial Equity & Addiction Lab, was the recipient of the 2023 Early Career Investigator Award from the Translational Mechanisms of Behavior Change (MOBC) Satellite Meeting at the Research Society on Alcohol (RSA). New Publication including NEC Node members: Ren Boyu, Lipsitz Stuart R, Weiss Roger D, Fitzmaurice Garrett M. Methods for handling missing binary data in substance use disorder trials. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2023 Sep 1;250:110897. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.110897. Epub 2023 Jul 13. PMID: 37544038…
Attention Early-Career Investigators: Apply for the 2024 LEAD Program!
The Learning for Early Careers in Addiction and Diversity (LEAD) Program provides training to early-career research scientists from racial/ethnic minoritized groups that are underrepresented in the substance use and substance use disorder research field. [download/share flyer, updated 9/15/2023] The program uses the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN) as a platform for training early-career investigators. This 3-year training program is based at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and visiting scholars spend three summers in a 4-week intensive program at UCSF. During the academic year, scholars work with their primary…
Youth SIG Webinar: Assessing Mental Health Among Young U.S. Females (Sept. 15, 11am ET)
The CTN Youth Special Interest Group (Youth SIG) invites you to join them for their next webinar, “Assessing Mental Health Among Young U.S. Females: Learning Insights from Girls for Health (LIGHT) Research Study,” September 15, 2023, 11am-12pm ET. The LIGHT study held focus groups with adolescent and young adult females to talk about their mental health concerns and improve understanding of the best ways to assess and help them with those concerns. In this webinar, Dr. Viviana Horigian, MD, MHA, Executive Director of the CTN Florida Node Alliance, will present…
Guam’s 4th Annual Conference on SUD Among Pacific Islanders
The Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center and Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center cordially invite you to register for Guam’s Fourth Annual Conference on Substance Use Disorders among Pacific Islanders. This live virtual conference is available at no-cost and is scheduled to take place during National Recovery Month on September 27-28, 2023 from 8:00am-2:30pm ChST. Earn up to 8.0 CE credits while attending presentations in the following featured tracks (full agenda here): Find out more and register here! Posted on August 26, 2023
JSAT Special Issue: Call for Papers on Implementation Science in Addiction Treatment
The Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Treatment (JSAT) is seeking abstracts for a special issue on addiction treatment implementation research, including: quantitative research, theory-driven or -generating qualitative studies, study protocols, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. One-page abstracts of the proposed paper are due by November 1, 2023, and must be submitted to Dr. Mark McGovern at mpmcg@stanford.edu. (Reminder that all CTN-related papers have to be approved by the Publications Subcommittee before being submitted for publication! Please email Susan Sonne (sonnesc@musc.edu) and Jack Blaine (jblaine@nida.nih.gov) for more information.) Find more details about the JSAT submission here.
Hybrid Event for Northern New Englanders: Addressing the Intersection of Pain Management and Opioid Use, September 29, 2023
The New England Opioid Response Network and Northeast Node of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network are pleased to bring together experts in the fields of pain and opioid use at a Regional Summit to be held in Concord, New Hampshire, on Friday, September 29, 2023. This event is intended for Northern New England audiences (Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont). We invite all who provide care to patients that experience pain (acute or chronic), use opioids, or have opioid use disorder, to attend. This interdisciplinary team-based training will provide evidence-based…
NIDA HIV Research Program Seminars, September and October 2023
Please join the NIDA HIV Research Program (HRP) for more thought-provoking events coming this fall. First, on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm, we are holding a symposium led by recipients of Avenir Award Program (DP2) grants (PAR-23-125). Topics include the effects of opioids on HIV persistence across tissues, rethinking how we collect information to reduce overdose deaths, HIV and substance use comorbidity, developing IFN-modulated vaccines and vulnerabilities of HIV-1 escape from neutralizing antibodies. You can find more detailed information and the Avenir speaker’s list here. Registration is now open. Then,…