Drug Abuse Treatment Services

Research Topics

Topics of interest in the area of health services and youth drug abuse include but are not limited to:

• Organization, Management, Delivery, Financing, and Costs of Drug Abuse Treatment Services
• Effectiveness of School-, Family-, Peer-, Media-, and Community-based Treatment Services
• Effectiveness of Comprehensive, Integrated, and Targeted Drug Abuse Treatment Services to Address Multiple Outcomes (e.g., Drug Abuse, Criminal Activity, Violence, HIV/AIDS)
• Effectiveness of Services for Defined Subpopulations (e.g., justice-involved, homeless)
• Gender-, Developmentally- and Culturally- Sensitive and Specific Approaches to Delivering Drug Abuse Treatment Services
• Methodology: Research Designs, Instruments, Data Analytic Procedures Appropriate for Multi-level Services Research
• Adoption, Translation, Sustainability and Outcomes of New and Existing Service Delivery Systems
• Controlled Studies that Transport Efficacious Drug Abuse Treatment Interventions into Different Settings
• Social Contextual Factors that Facilitate or Impede the Effective Delivery of Drug Abuse Treatment Services