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For registration information, please contact Glen Fischer of Management Assistance Corporation via e-mail at gfischer@mac1988.com
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Blending Clinical Practice and Research: Forging Partnerships to Enhance Drug Addiction Treatment provides an important opportunity for clinicians and researchers to examine cutting-edge scientific findings about drug abuse and addiction and the application of these findings to clinical practice, and to determine additional areas in need of research.
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Teams of clinicians and researchers will conduct plenary presentations and workshops on a variety of relevant topics including:
  • Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior
  • Drug Abuse Treatment Effectiveness
  • Innovative Behavioral Therapies to Treat Addiction
  • Innovations in the Development of Medications to Treat Addiction
  • Co-Occurring Drug Abuse and Mental Illness
  • Club Drugs: Their Effects and Consequences
  • Using Buprenorphine for Opiate Detoxification
  • Motivational Enhancement Therapies
  • Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse
  • Treatment Perspectives on Adolescent Drug Abusers
  • Gender Issues in Drug Abuse Treatment
  • Treatment for Methamphetamine Addiction
  • Understanding Methadone and LAAM for Treating Opiate Addiction
  • The Burden of Disease in Los Angeles
  • The Drug Evaluation Network Survey (DENS) Project in Los Angeles
  • The Los Angeles County Evaluation System
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Clinicians, drug treatment counselors, social workers, health care providers, criminal justice staff, marriage and family counselors, and public health workers who treat individuals with drug abuse or addiction problems, and researchers interested in drug abuse and addiction issues. Civic leaders and policymakers who wish to learn more about drug addiction and its treatment are also invited to attend.
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is one of the National Institutes of Health and is responsible for over 85 percent of the world’s research on drug abuse and addiction. NIDA’s mission is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction.

As in other fields of medicine, a gap exists in the drug abuse treatment field between clinical practice and research. One important response to this gap is the recent launch of NIDA’s National Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network (CTN), a research infrastructure designed to test the effectiveness and usefulness of new and improved interventions in real-life settings with diverse populations. The CTN is an important component of NIDA’s overall goal to establish and maintain partnerships with drug abuse researchers and community-based treatment providers.

Partnering with NIDA on this conference are:
  • UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Program
  • Los Angeles County Alcohol and Drug Program Administration
  • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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