DIDARP at the University of Puerto Rico School of Public Health

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的目标是提高我们的能力，从公共卫生的角度与刑事司法人口进行药物滥用研究，在波多黎各大学，公共卫生研究生院。我们的研究发展战略的中心是在教师的临界质量，将凝聚力追求相关的从事和保留在社区药物治疗重新进入囚犯的物质使用障碍的历史流行病学和卫生服务研究的研究能力发展熟练。该方案还将为处于不同教育阶段的学生提供发展研究能力的机会，并鼓励他们从事药物滥用研究事业。与此申请一起提交的研究项目将探讨个人和药物治疗提供者的因素，这些因素可能预测重新进入有物质使用问题的前罪犯的社区药物治疗的进入和保留。拟议的项目应有助于解决被监禁人群中未经治疗的药物使用问题不成比例的普遍性，以及很大一部分未经治疗的前罪犯重新成瘾并在释放后不久再次被监禁的问题。研究项目包括三个试点项目和一个发展项目，解决NIDA研究优先事项，例如特殊人群的服务需求和服务提供商的研究。我们希望MIDARP的支持，以提高我们的能力，从事美国国立卫生研究院资助的药物滥用研究的相关性，以解决由拉丁美洲人与物质使用障碍所承担的差距。为了实现我们的目标，我们已经建立了以下目标：1）提供领导，支持和协调，以增加拉丁美洲教师和学生能够成功地进行药物滥用研究相关的刑事司法背景的数量。2)增加机构和机构外的资源，以维持药物滥用研究的成功规划、筹资和进行。3)以及时有效的方式向研究界、学术方案和其他参与解决有药物使用问题的前罪犯的药物治疗需求的利益攸关方传播研究结果。公共卫生相关性（见说明）：我们希望建立一个教师，学生和学术领袖的协同集群，他们对刑事司法人口中与药物滥用相关的问题对公共卫生的影响越来越感兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our goal is to enhance our capacity to conduct drug abuse research with criminal justice populations from a public health perspective, at the University of Puerto Rico, Graduate School of Public Health. Our research development strategy centers on developing proficiency in research competencies in a critical mass of faculty that will cohesively pursue epidemiological and health services research relevant to engaging and retaining in community drug treatment re-entering inmates with histories of a substance use disorder. The program will provide as well opportunities to develop research capacity in students at different stages in their education and to encourage them to engage in drug abuse research careers. The research projects submitted with this application will explore individual and drug treatment provider factors that may predict entry and retention in community drug treatment for re-entering ex-offenders with a substance use problem. The proposed projects should contribute to address the disproportionate prevalence of untreated substance use problems in incarcerated populations as well as the large proportion of untreated ex-offenders that become re-addicted and who are re-incarcerated shortly after release The research projects include three pilot and one developmental project that address NIDA research priorities such as the services needs of special populations and studies of service providers. We expect MIDARP support to enhance our capacity to engage in NIH funded drug abuse research of relevance to addressing disparities borne by Latinos with a substance use disorder. To reach our goal, we have established the following aims: 1) Provide leadership, support, and coordination to increase the number of Latino faculty and students capable of successfully conducting drug abuse research relevant to a criminal justice context. 2) Enhance institutional and extra- institutional resources that sustain the successful planning, financing, and conduct of drug abuse research. 3) Disseminate research findings in a timely and effective fashion to the research community, to the academic programs, and to other stakeholders involved in addressing the drug treatment needs of ex- offenders with a substance use problem. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (See instructions): We expect to build a synergestic cluster of faculty, students, and academic leaders that have expressed a growing interest in the public health impact of problems associated with drug abuse in the criminal justice population.