ADAI News

New Journals in the ADAI Library

These journal issues were recently received by the ADAI Library (click links for tables of contents).

Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Res. 29(11) & (11 Suppl)
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 12(6)
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 29(4)
Nicotine & Tobacco Research 7(6)
Tobacco Control 14(6)

ADAI Small Grants Awarded to UW Researchers

Three UW researchers will receive ADAI Small Grant awards for the October 2005 award period.  Small Grants stimulate alcohol and drug research by new and established researchers at the UW by providing initial funding for promising pilot projects which may ultimately be developed into full research studies with outside grant support.

• Chris Hague, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology
  Regulation of Cannabinoid Receptor Signaling by RGS Proteins
• Clayton Neighbors, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  21st Birthday Card Intervention Project
• Freya Spielberg, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
  Computer Assisted Rapid HIV Counseling and Testing: New Options  To Expand HIV Counseling and Testing in Drug Treatment Settings

Housing for Chronic Alcoholics in Seattle

The Seattle Times reports on a new program which will provide housing for 75 homeless men and women who are among Seattle's worst-case chronic alcoholics.  Residents selected for the program will have been addicted to alcohol for at least 15 years and failed at alcohol treatment at least six times.  Most are accustomed to living on the streets and spending nights in emergency rooms, detox centers or jail cells.  The project, sponsored by the Downtown Emergency Service Center, is the first of its kind in Washington, and only the second in the country, to offer housing exclusively for homeless chronic alcoholics. 

New Journals in the ADAI Library

These journal issues were recently received by the ADAI Library (click links for tables of contents).

American Journal on Addictions 14(5)
Contemporary Drug Problems 31(4) (older issue)
Counselor: The Magazine for Addiction Professionals 6(6)
Drug and Alcohol Review 24(4)
Journal of Substance Use 10(6)
Substance Use & Misuse 40(13-14)

Monitoring the Future; National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2004. Vol. 1 Secondardy School Students 2004.

Johnston LD, O'Malley PM, Bachman JG, Schulenberg JE. (NIH Publication No. 05-5727) -- Bethesda : National Institute on Drug Abuse, August 2005.

Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults. Each year, a total of approximately 50,000 8th, 10th and 12th grade students are surveyed (12th graders since 1975, and 8th and 10th graders since 1991). Annual follow-up questionnaires are mailed to a sample of each graduating class for a number of years after their initial participation. This is the 30th MTF survey.  For more information, see http://www.monitoringthefuture.org.

Find out how to borrow this book from the ADAI Library.

Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction in Opioid Treatment Programs (TIP 43)

Batki SL, Kauffman JF, Marion I, Parrino MW, Woody GE.  (CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, 43 ; DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 05-4048) -- Rockville : Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 2005.

Chapters in this Treatment Improvement Protocol include a history of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid addiction; pharmacology of medications; screening, admission and assessment; clinical pharmacotherapy; patient-treatment matching; phases of treatment; comprehensive care and patient retention; drug testing; medical problems; treatment of multiple substance use; treatment of co-occurring disorders; treatment during pregnancy; administrative considerations. The Appendices include a section on ethical issues. TIP 43 is available full-text for free on the web at the NCADI site.

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S.M.A.R.T. Treatment Planning. Utilizing the Addiction Severity Index (ASI): Making Required Data Collection Useful

Stilen P, Carise D, Roget N, Wendler A.  Kansas City, MO: Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center in residence at University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2005.

This curriculum, part of the 2001 Blending Initiative developed by NIDA, SAMHSA, and CSAT, seeks to transform required "paperwork" into clinically useful information.  The ASI is one of the most widely used tools for the assessment of substance use-related problems.  Addiction counselors working in community-based treatment centers administer the ASI yet often fail to use findings to identify client problems, develop individualized treatment plans, or make referrals matched to client needs.  Intake workers, counselors, supervisors, and managers alike often view the ASI as time-consuming and not clinically useful.  This course will reveal how to use the ASI to integrate these clinical processes. 

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New Journals in the ADAI Library

These journals were received in the ADAI Library during the week of November 28 (click links for tables of contents).

Addiction Research & Theory 13(6)
Alcohol Research & Health 28(3)
Journal of Maintenance in the Addictions 2(4)