DIDARP at the University of Puerto Rico School of Public Health

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的目标是加强我们在波多黎各大学公共卫生研究生院从公共卫生角度与刑事司法人员进行药物滥用研究的能力。我们的研究发展战略的中心是发展研究能力的熟练程度，在一个关键的教师群体中，他们将团结一致地从事流行病学和健康服务研究，这些研究与参与和保留社区药物治疗有关，重新进入有药物使用障碍史的囚犯。该计划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。与本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，这些因素可能会预测有药物使用问题的重新进入的前罪犯进入和保留社区药物治疗。拟议的项目应有助于解决监禁人口中未经治疗的药物使用问题不成比例的普遍问题，以及未经治疗的前罪犯重新上瘾并在释放后不久重新入狱的大部分问题。研究项目包括三个试点项目和一个发展项目，以解决NIDA的研究优先事项，如特殊人群的服务需求和对服务提供者的研究。我们期望MIDARP的支持能够提高我们参与国家卫生研究院资助的药物滥用研究的能力，这些研究与解决拉丁裔药物使用障碍所带来的差异有关。为了实现我们的目标，我们确定了以下目标：1)提供领导、支持和协调，以增加能够成功开展与刑事司法背景相关的药物滥用研究的拉丁裔教师和学生的数量。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、资助和实施。3)及时有效地将研究成果传播给研究团体、学术项目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相关者。公共卫生相关性（见说明）：我们期望建立一个由教师、学生和学术领袖组成的协同集群，他们对刑事司法人员中与药物滥用有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.