Description

The “Baseline Study” is designed to help us better understand the Community Treatment Programs participating in the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN). Using a series of surveys, the study will be used to:

Ø   Describe the programs and practitioners delivering drug abuse treatment services within the CTN.

Ø    Build a system that can track changes in program and staff characteristics.

Ø    Allow treatment program managers to compare their program to others--both within the CTN and nationwide.

Ø   Promote studies of organizational change and the characteristics that predict whether research-based treatment strategies will become part of usual treatment in a program.

The researchers involved in this study understand the importance of a strong partnership between themselves and the treatment programs. This alliance can help the CTN build its own plan for promoting the use of proven, effective, and innovative treatment methods.

Programs will utilize incentive values considerably lower than those typically used in research clinics.