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Filter by:Injured trauma patients in the Emergency Department (ED) may be a particularly important group to target for screening and intervention for prescription drug misuse (PDM). These patients have high rates of psychiatric and substance use co-morbidity and pain management for their injuries (e.g. broken bones, burns) will often require prescribed opioid pain medications and other controlled substances. To date, there are no effective ED-based interventions for PDM. Collaborative Care is a longitudinal model of care that combines multiple elements for patients with complex medical comorbidities. This model holds promise as an intervention strategy for injured patients in the ED that are at risk for prescription drug misuses. Collaborative Care from the ED is innovative and requires developing follow up procedures on a population that has previously been difficult to follow and may have previously avoided consistent health care delivery. The primary objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of initiating a collaborative care intervention for injured ED patients with PDM by enrolling patients into an open trial of this intervention. A secondary objective was to determine if PDM decreases over time after enrollment and developing successful follow-up procedures to deliver longitudinal care.
Qualitative project, comprising open-ended semi-structured interviews with healthcare workers, who provide antenatal care to substance-using women.
Scaling up integrated, cost-efficient HIV services for people who inject drugs (PWID) in Needle Syringe Programs (NSPs) is urgently needed in Kazakhstan, where only one-third of the estimated 19,000 HIV-positive PWID are ever linked to HIV care and only 10% initiate ART with 4% achieving viral suppression. The study's aim is to evaluate the implementation, effectiveness, and sustainability of an integrated HIV service model in 24 NSPs located in 3 Kazakhstani city areas. This model will employ highly effective strategies that will include peer-driven recruitment of PWID in NSPs using social network strategies (SNS), integrating rapid HIV testing in NSPs with HIV Care Clinic nurses, and linking HIV positive PWID in NSPs to HIV care using the ARTAS (Anti-Retroviral Treatment and Access to Services) case management model. Findings will have important public health implications for improving HIV service delivery for PWID in the Central Asian region and other countries with injection driven epidemics.
This study scope is to validate the accuracy and usability of the Soberlink Cellular Device in comparison to a predicate device, BACtrack S80 Pro.
In collaboration with the San Diego Medical Examiner's Office and the State of California's controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES), the investigators propose to review opioid poisonings over the past 12 months and will send letters to prescribers in California when at least one of the provider's prescription(s) was filled by a patient who died of an opioid poisoning in San Diego County. The letters will be non-judgmental and factual, explaining that a patient of the provider who was being treated with prescription narcotics died of an opioid poisoning. The letter will also encourage judicious prescribing including use of the CURES system before prescribing. The investigators will evaluate physician prescribing practices over 24 months 12 months pre- and 12 months post-letter using data from the CURES database. The investigators' hypothesis is that letters will make the risk of opioids more cognitively available and that physicians will respond by prescribing opioids more carefully. This will result in fewer deaths due to misuse and more frequent use of the CURES system.
This study addresses the disproportionate representation of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic in Kazakhstan, a country that has seen some of the largest growth in new HIV infections since the turn of the century. Using a stepped wedge trial across 3 cities in Kazakhstan, the proposed study will test a strategic and innovative social network-based intervention for MSM who use drugs in Kazakhstan as a strategy to increase their numbers in the HIV continuum of care.
The purpose of the study is to asses the potential interactions between methamphetamine and doxazosin in methamphetamine-dependent volunteers who are not seeking treatment. The study will evaluate the effects of doxazosin on the cardiovascular and subjective effects of methamphetamine in a human laboratory study. The primary objective is to determine the safety of treatment with doxazosin in methamphetamine-dependent volunteers by examining hemodynamic and subjective effects of administration of ascending doses of methamphetamine and a placebo dose during treatment with doxazosin. The secondary objective is to determine effects of treatment with doxazosin, as compared to placebo, on subjective effects produced by administration of methamphetamine or placebo
The study will test the efficacy of a hour long, one-on-one, active listening counseling session (called Change the Cycle or CTC) aimed at reducing behaviors among active people who inject drugs (PWID) that research has found to facilitate uptake of injection drug use among non-injectors. The study will involve ~1,100 PWID who will be randomized to CTC or an equal attention control intervention on improving nutrition. Participants will be recruited in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California and followed up at 6 and 12 months to determine changes in direct and indirect facilitation of injection initiation among non-injectors.
The co-occurrence of child maltreatment and parental substance-use problems is a major public health problem with serious consequences for children, parents, families, and the community at large. The need for effective dual treatment of caregiver substance abuse and child maltreatment is unquestionable, but there is a dearth of controlled treatment outcome studies with substance-using parents who have engaged in child maltreatment. This project examines two evidence-based treatments-Contingency Management for substance-use problems and Pathways Triple P parenting intervention to improve parenting for prevention of child-maltreatment recurrence. These two systematic interventions are being tested in the context of traditional outpatient treatment for substance-use problems.
The proposed research is designed to adapt and test an evidence-based drug abuse prevention approach for use in youth courts among first-time, non-violent, adolescent offenders. The ultimate goal is to reduce the adverse health, legal, and social consequences of youth drug abuse, violence, and delinquency. Planned project activities include conducting: 1) key informant interviews of youth court directors regarding logistical and intervention features of effective youth court programming; and, 2) a randomized controlled efficacy trial of an adapted version of Life Skills Training, an evidence-based drug and violence prevention program. It is anticipated that the findings will provide critical information on implementing evidence-based prevention programs for new populations and settings and will support preparations for a large-scale effectiveness trial in youth peer courts.