Technology-based Treatments for Substance Use Disorders

利用技术提供以证据为基础的行为改变干预措施，针对药物使用障碍和相关问题（包括艾滋病毒和合并症），可以使这种干预措施广泛传播给不同环境中的一系列受众。我们的研究小组开展的开创性工作导致确定了针对成人和青少年药物滥用治疗的创新和有效的技术提供干预措施，预防药物滥用成人和青少年的艾滋病毒，以及预防儿童，青少年和年轻人的药物滥用。拟议的P30中心的总体目标（技术与健康中心[CTH]）是整合跨多个学科的专业知识，并提供一个基础设施，以提高我们团队的创新科学研究和开发活动的质量，实现速度和影响力，这些活动系统地将联合收割机基于科学的行为改变干预与最先进的技术相结合，以经验为依据检验和传播针对吸毒病症和相关问题的技术干预措施。该中心将通过四个核心来实现这一目标。(1)科学核心将作为中心研究人员的资源，以提高其研究项目的质量，效率和影响。这将包括建立一个跨学科的顾问团队，每个人都是各自领域的领导者，共享重要资源，整合项目的结果和方法，并研究未探索的经验问题。(2)传播和实施核心将向广大受众传播综合项目方法和调查结果，并征求专家委员会的意见，作为一个集中资源，提供知识，促进获得针对药物使用障碍和相关问题的基于技术的行为改变干预措施（通过在线干预措施“工具包”和社区系统采用这些措施的“路线图”）。我们还将培养该领域的下一代研究人员。(3)试点项目核心将支持开发新研究领域的“管道”，在试点阶段之后，这些研究领域可以通过外部供资机制进行更严格的经验测试。该核心将支持新的试点项目，这些项目很有希望对实地产生变革性影响。(4)行政核心将提供方案领导，确保成功协调各核心的活动，并提供基础设施，加强我们专家团队之间的协同作用。

Using technology to deliver evidence-based, behavior change interventions targeting substance use disorders and related issues (including HIV and Co-occurring disorders) may enable widespread dissemination of such interventions to an array of audiences in diverse settings. The pioneering work conducted by our research group has led to the identification of innovative and efficacious technology-delivered interventions targeting substance abuse treatment among adults and adolescents, HIV prevention for substance-abusing adults and adolescents, as well as substance abuse prevention among children, adolescents and young adults. The Overall Aim of the proposed P30 Center (Center for Technology and Health [CTH]) is to integrate expertise across multiple disciplines and provide an infrastructure to enhance the quality, pace of achievement and impact of our team's innovative scientific research and development activities that systematically combine science-based behavior change interventions with state-of-the-art technologies to create, empirically test and disseminate technology-based interventions targeting substance use disorders and related issues. The Center will achieve this Aim via 4 Cores. (1) The Scientific Core will serve as a resource to Center investigators to enhance the quality, efficiency and impact of their research projects. This will include establishing an interdisciplinary team of advisors, each a leader in their field, sharing important resources, integrating results and methods across projects, and examining unexplored empirical questions. (2) The Dissemination and Implementation Core will disseminate integrated project methods and findings to a broad audience, with consult from an expert Board, and serve as a centralized resource providing knowledge, and facilitating access to technology-based behavior change interventions targeting substance use disorders and related issues (via online "toolkits" of interventions and a "roadmap" for their adoption in community systems). We will also train the next generation of researchers in this field. (3) The Pilot Project Core will support the development of a "pipeline" of new areas of research that could then progress to more rigorous empirical testing via external funding mechanisms after the pilot phase. This Core will support novel pilot projects that offer considerable promise to have a transformative impact on the field. (4) The Administrative Core will provide programmatic leadership that ensures successful coordination of the activities across Cores and an infrastructure to enhance synergy among our expert team.