Who Should Attend?

Drug treatment counselors, social workers, health care providers, criminal justice staff, marriage and family counselors, public health workers and clinicians who treat individuals with drug abuse or addiction problems, and researchers interested in drug abuse and addiction issues. Civic leaders and policymakers who wish to learn more about drug addiction and its treatment are also invited to attend.

As in other fields of medicine, a gap exists in the drug abuse treatment field between clinical practice and scientific research. Blending Addiction Science & Practice:  Bridges to the Future provides an important opportunity for clinicians and providers to interact with the developers of empirically supported treatments in awareness raising workshops focused on treatment implementation.

One important response to the gap in the drug abuse treatment field between clinical practice and research has been the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA's) National Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network (CTN), a research infrastructure currently consisting of 17 research "nodes" designed to test the effectiveness and usefulness of new and improved interventions in community-based treatment settings with diverse populations. The CTN is an important component of NIDA's overall goal to establish and maintain partnerships with drug abuse researchers and community treatment providers.

The Goal and Objectives of the Blending Conference

The goal of the Blending Addiction Science & Practice Conference is to improve addiction treatment practices so more people recover from addictive disorders.

The objectives are:
• To enhance bi-directional communication between drug abuse and addiction researchers and community treatment providers.
• To increase drug abuse and addiction practitioner’s level of knowledge regarding NIDA’s research.
• To increase awareness, knowledge and use of the Blending Team Products.
• To advance the exchange of ideas among drug abuse and addiction professionals.
• To guide drug abuse and addiction practitioners to additional resources for knowledge and skill development of science-based practices.
• To increase the dissemination of science-based practices for the treatment of drug abuse and addictive disorders.

Conference Presentations

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Monday, October 16th

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Tuesday, October 17th

The University of Washington is the site of the Washington Node, please Click here.

Oregon Health & Science University is the site of the Oregon/Hawaii Node, please click here.

To view the conference speaker list with degree, job title and agency, please click here.

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