Psychiatric Times.
No. 5
Bringing New Medications to the Treatment of Addiction
By Frank Vocci, Ph.D.
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May 1, 2003
Dr. Vocci is director of the Division of Treatment Research and Development at NIDA, part of the NIH, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
As part of its treatment research portfolio, NIDA supports a national research infrastructure that can test research-based behavioral and pharmacological treatments in diverse patient and community treatment settings. The National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) was established in 1999 to rapidly translate new science-based treatment components into practice.
Utilizing the model set by other National Institutes of Health institutes, the CTN is a cooperative undertaking of NIDA, university scientists studying drug abuse and community treatment providers to test research-based treatments in community settings. The CTN consists of research "nodes," comprising regional research and training centers based in university medical and research facilities. The centers partner with community-based treatment programs that represent a variety of treatment settings and patient populations available in the region. From its original five sites in 1999, the CTN has grown to now include 17 regional nodes spread across the county (encompassing 27 states), including three new sites to be operational in fall 2003 (Southwest node, California/Arizona node and a northern New England node) (Figure). Each node works with five to 10 community treatment programs to deliver evidence-based treatments at the community level. Currently there are 115 community treatment programs involved in the CTN.
In addition to supporting eight active treatment protocols in the CTN, NIDA is committed to enrolling over 8,000 patients for the 18 new protocols that are in various stages of development. These new protocols will include studies of pregnant drug-abusing women, adolescent drug abusers, drug-abusing women with posttraumatic stress disorder, a study conducted in Spanish for Spanish-speaking drug abusers, several HIV risk-reduction interventions and a cigarette smoking cessation intervention for in-treatment drug addicts. Readers who would like additional information on the latest research findings can visit NIDA's Web site at <www.drugabuse.gov>.
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