Scientists Larissa Mooney and Yih-Ing Hser from the UCLA Integrated Substance Use and Addiction Programs (ISAP) will lead a $25 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health to test treatments for opioid addiction in rural America.
A separate grant of $3.3 million from the NIH was awarded to another UCLA ISAP researcher, Suzette Glasner-Edwards, who will study the effectiveness of using text messages to help people with opioid addiction adhere to their treatment regimens.
A 5-part training developed in 2019 by the Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center.
Access brief videos and practical tools to address patient STIMULANT and FENTANYL use in primary care.
UCLA ISAP has collaborated with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the SAMHSA Grantee Data Technical Assistance (GDTA) team to publish Staying in Touch: A Fieldwork Manual of Tracking Procedures (Third Edition). (Manual is a .PDF File)
Staying in Touch is designed to assist SAMHSA-funded grantees to stay in touch with people receiving services and to meet GPRAMA reporting requirements. The manual includes information on numerous staying-in-touch, tracking, and locating procedures from the simple and inexpensive to the complex and costly.
