Using the ATTC/NIDA Blending Products to Affect Change – Part 2 – Overview by Christine Higgins


 

Using the ATTC/NIDA Blending Products to Affect Change – Part 2 – Overview by Christine Higgins – Christine Higgins, MA, Dissemination Specialist for the Mid-Atlantic Node of Clinical Trials Network provides an overview of the NIDA Blending Products. This conference took place on July 13, 2012 in the Baltimore-Washington Metro area. It was sponsored by the Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center (a program of the Danya Institute), and the Mid-Atlantic Node Clinical Trials Network. It featured presentations on the Blending Products which are a collaborative effort of the The National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network and the National Institute of Drug Abuse/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrations Blending Initiative to disseminate trestmernt and training products based on results conducted by the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. The audience was made up of practitioners in the Substance Abuse Treatment workforce -us tools in the Blending products suite and give them an opportunity to learn how to implement a particular evidence based practice. More information about the NIDA Blending Initiative and its products is available here: www.drugabuse.gov

 

Looking back at the top stories of 2012

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Hillary Clinton in Hospital After Blood Clot Found

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The website of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that in rare cases, a blood clot can form on the brain of someone with a concussion. Lee Schwamm, vice chairman of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, said clots …
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Brazil debates treatment options in crack epidemic

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Obama nominates Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry as … Demand for crack has boomed in recent years and open-air "cracolandias," or "crack lands," popped up in the urban centers of Rio and Sao Paulo, with hundreds of users gathering to smoke the drug.
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