NIDA CTN Election Results: •Greg Brigham, Executive Committee•Kathy Burlew, Research Development Committee•Betsy Wells, Chair of Research Utilization Committee•Dennis McCarty, Chair of Steering Committee

New Special Interest Group (SIG)The Treatment Decision Guide SIG will work to develop clinical

decision-making support tools to assist providers in implementing evidence-based interventions for substance use disorders in a variety of

medial settings.

Continuting Education•“Pain Management, Prescription Medication, & Drug Addiction” at Shawneee State University (Portsmouth, Ohio), 6.5 CE credits, $55 registration fee, e-mail Ginnie Moore at gmoore@shawnee.edu•The ATTC is offering 3 NAADAC credits for FREE for participating in a 2hr online workshop on the dissemination of EBP http://bit.ly/go6YeL

Please welcome Dr. Felipe Vallejo, our new NIDA IN-VEST Fellow from Chile. Dr. Vallejo is a Psychologist at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso.

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Dissemination Briefs: • CTN-052, an OVN concept, has been accepted for protocol devel-opment to investigate buspirone for relapse prevention in cocaine-dependent persons

•Dr. Winhusen received the Besteman Award for her ex-traordinary contributions to the NIDA CTN

•FDA has approved Vivitrol (long acting naltrexone) for opiate dependence

•NextGen Ambulatory EHR 5.6 is the first EHR with behav-ioral health certification

•In 2009, 2.1 mil ER visits were due to drug misuse or abuse http://bit.ly/fxHhiS

•U.S. to Crack Down on Web Drug Stores http://bit.ly/emI7pA

•Counties in KY are moving to ban pain clinics http://bit.ly/f3LRCt

•More people overdose on prescription drugs than illegal drugs http://nyti.ms/gBTCLG

Current OVN Studies• CTN-0037 STRIDE• CTN-0044 Web-based

Therapy•CTN-0044-A2 Web-based

Therapy with Native Ameri-cans

• CTN-0046 S-CAST• CTN-0047 SMART-ED

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Upcoming Conferences

• Ohio’s Opiate Epidemic: A Summit on Policy, Prevention & Treat-ment on April 12th, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus, Ohio ($75 registration fee)•Addiction Studies Institute, August 17-19th at the Greater Columbus Convention Center•Let us know about other upcoming conferences in your State, Erin Winstanley 513-487-7812 (winstanley@carc.uc.edu)

Evidence-Based Practice Tips .....

Training Counselors in EBTs“Which Training Strategies are Optimal to Teach Counselors EBTs?Given the limited evidence about training strategy effectiveness, it is premature to specify guidelines for how to best train counselors in EBTs. Nonetheless, the research findings to date warrant provisional conclusions that:

•distance learning methods appear to develop counselors’ knowledge;•workshops may serve as a platform for establishing basic skills;•counselors likely require clinical supervision that includes ob-servation, feedback, and coaching to become proficient in us-ing EBTs with real patients; •blending some or all of these strategies is probably the best way to approach counselor training.”

--Martino S. 2010. Strategies for Training Counselors in Evidence-Based Treatments. Addiction Science & Clinical Prac-tice. December 5(2): 30-39.

Research Tips .....

★ CTN CTPs are getting IRB approval to use Facebook to contact research participants

★ Research suggests that African-Americans and Hispanics are willing

to participate in health research at a rate that is similiar to non-Hispanic Whites.

- Wendler D et al. 2006. Are Racial and Ethnic Minorities Less Willing to Participate in Health Research? PLos Medicine 3(2): 201-10.

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Dissemination Briefs:

•The CTN STRIDE study ap-peared in Addiction Profes-sional (10/7/2010)

•Financial incentives are being used to encourage healthy be-haviors & address smoking, drug addiction, weight loss (Newsweek 7/22/10)

•NIDA has an online tool to screen for drug use in general medical settings (NM ASSIST)

•NIDA & NIAAA merger ap-proved by NIH Director, wait-ing for congressional approval

•Annual staff turnover in be-havioral health programs ranges from 25-50%

•NIAAA's Rethinking Drinking website

•New websiite helps to iden-tify health insurance ................ www.healthcare.gov

•64% of youth with a lifetime mental disorder do not receive tx http://bit.ly/dWb1lx

•AHRQ has a searchable da-tabase of innovative txs for AOD disorders http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov

What’s New•The CTN Dissemination Li-brary has a blog that summa-rizes new publications

•The NIH is forming a new institute on drug discovery, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences