Funding Opportunities

• 2007 Funding Strategy.
• Research Funding Opportunities
• FAQ's for Grants and Contracts
• NIH Roadmap for Research
• NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research (NIH site)
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs
• Young Investigators Opportunities/Research Training
  • Policy Update for T32 Programs
• Loan Repayment Program

Grants & Contracts Information

• How to Apply: Forms & Instructions
• FAQ's for Grants and Contracts
• Review Process
• Electronic Submission of Grant Applications (NIH Website)
• NIH Grant Forms and Applications
• Guidelines for the Funding of Competitive Renewal Grants

NIDA Projects and Resources

• NIDA Networking Project:
  A new NIDA effort to encourage information exchange & research collaboration among researchers & clinicians.
• Direct link to Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP) Query Form. Searchable database of Federally funded biomedical research projects (NIH Site).
• Current Research Findings (Director's Report)
• Monitoring the Future Survey. Results from a yearly survey of teenagers conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research
• Child and Adolescent Work Group
• Community Epidemiology Work Group
• Genetics Work Group
• Neuroscience Work Group
• Translationally Oriented Approaches, Devices & Strategies (TOADS) Workgroup
• Women and Gender Workgroup
• Partnerships/Technology Transfer. Collaborative relationships between NIDA and the private sector.
• NIDA Drug Supply Program. Obtaining drugs for a research study.
• Teaching Packets

Research Dissemination

• How Do NIDA Research Findings Make the News?
• NIDA/SAMHSA Blending Initiative
• NIDA Notes Newsletter
• NIDA News Releases
• NewsScans
• Science & Practice Perspectives Journal

Ethics and Policy Information

• Bioethics Resources
• NACDA Guidelines for Administration of Drugs to Human Subjects
• Guidelines for Developing a Data and Safety Monitoring Plan
• Certificates of Confidentiality
• National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse
• Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) (HHS site)

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov - All NIH clinical trials (NIH site)
  • NIDA's Clinical Trials, from clinicaltrials.gov
• National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network

Data Sets for Secondary Analysis

• CTN Data from research protocols
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive - contains public use data from a variety of studies including Monitoring the Future (MTF), National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) and many more.
• NSPY Center - a joint venture between AMSAQ, Inc. and Westat charged with housing, managing, and analyzing restricted use data from the National Survey of Parents and Youth (NSPY) - Phase III of the Evaluation of the National Youth Anti-drug Media Campaign.

NIDA Organization

• View Organizational Chart
• Offices, Divisions, Programs, Centers

Important News & Links

• Electronic Submission of Grant Applications (NIH Website)
• NIDA's Director's page
• Trends and Statistics

Meetings and Events

• May 2, 2008
  NIDA Symposium Mapping Complex Traits for Addictive and Psychiatric Disorders in Mice at the 2008 Society for Biological Psychiatry 63rd Annual Scientific Convention, Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington DC
• June 18, 2008
  NIDA Symposium at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD), Advances in the Development of Medications for Comorbid ADHD and Substance Use Disorders, San Juan, Puerto Rico. CPDD website
  • NIDA Tutorials Workshop and Grant Writing Workshop at CPDD
• Past Meeting Summaries

NIDA's Publication Series:

• Research Reports
• InfoFacts (fact sheets)
• NIDA Notes (newsletter)
• Addiction Science & Clinical Practice (journal for researchers & health care providers)
• Mind Over Matter: Drug info for grades 5-9
• Topics in Brief

Other Websites:

• NIH's Office of Extramural Research