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Harnessing Digital Health to Understand Clinical Trajectories of Opioid Use Disorder (D-TECT) (NIH HEAL Initiative)
Funded by the NIH HEAL Initiative®
This is an observational study designed to (1) evaluate the feasibility and utility of digital health technology in a MOUD treatment population, and (2) capitalize on the availability of EHR data to relate passive and active sensing data to treatment retention and medication adherence.
Lisa A. Marsch, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health; Director, Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
National Medication-Assisted Treatment Survey of Substance Use Disorder Programs Serving American Indian and Alaska Native People (NIH HEAL Initiative)
Funded by the NIH HEAL Initiative®
This study seeks to provide a detailed description of the use of MATs for Opioid Use Disorders in health care systems and substance abuse treatment programs serving AI/AN communities, much-needed insights regarding the dynamics around the decision to implement such practices, and carefully formulated methods for more effective dissemination.
Douglas Novins, M.D.
Director, Native American and Telehealth Programs
Colorado University - Anschutz
The Great Plains Initiative
The Great Plains Initiative has two primary aims. Aim 1 is to determine community-defined needs for identifying and addressing substance use issues in order to create a Great Plains American Indian substance use research agenda. Such issues may involve a broad range of topics, such as specific substance misuse, barriers to treatment, the role of historical trauma in substance use, mistrust of research, and others as determined through the Community-based participatory research process.