The goal of the Addiction Center for Translation is to develop and implement cutting-edge research to inform an evidence-based approach to prevent and treat substance-use disorder and addiction.
Within that goal, the center strives to make a difference in four mission areas.
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Education
The Addiction Center for Translation seeks to educate researchers, students, clinicians, health care providers and community partners about substance use, abuse and disorder and addiction overall through:
- Medical education
- Addiction medicine fellowship
- Nurse/clinician education
Clinical Care
Facilitating compassionate and effective treatment of a patient population suffering from substance use and abuse disorder is a key focus of the Addiction Center for Translation. It seeks to provide care in the following ways:
- Prevention of use
- Prevention of transition from use to abuse
- Universal screening and warm handoff
- Hot handoff (medical-assisted treatment)
Research
The Addiction Center for Translation strives to promote translational research on the chronic disease of addiction. It aims to do so by:
- Facilitating translational research via Addiction Symposium
- Facilitating translational research via pilots and startups
- Garnering support via:
- Non-formula CURE grants
- UG3/UH3
- NIH grants
- Center (P50) grants
- Program project grants (PPGs)
- Training (T32) grants
Outreach
The Addiction Center for Translation strives to serve as a resource for the community and a partner with state and federal public health agencies by helping to provide:
- Community education (school-based, Mini Medical School)
- Support groups
- Resource events