Training Program in Substance Use and Use Disorders

吸毒和吸毒成瘾是美国和世界范围内的主要健康问题。在……里面 仅在美国，每年与失业、犯罪和医疗保健相关的成本就超过7000亿美元 年。成瘾领域跨越许多学科，包括但不限于医学， 精神病学、神经生物学、药理学、公共卫生和法律，说明药物的影响 虐待和上瘾已经对人类的状况造成了影响。我们目前正经历着惊人的增长 对滥用药物的生物影响和机制产生新的见解的技术 依赖和上瘾的发展。在加州大学欧文分校，教职员工和 在加州大学欧文分校的支持下，研究成瘾的神经生物学的研究人员正在迅速增长 成瘾神经科学中心(ICAN)，一个新的NIDA P50卓越中心，名为 生命周期中的大麻素(ICAL)，以及一个专注于医疗和立法的新中心 大麻合法化的挑战(大麻研究中心)。建议的目标是 药物使用和使用障碍培训计划是为了培养下一代创新人才 成瘾神经科学领域的研究人员利用 UCI的神经科学和新的中心专注于成瘾研究，以提供教育 以及研究经验，将学员定位为该领域的新领导者。培训计划是 重点面向博士前学生，并将提供以下内容：1)现代化和跨学科 成瘾过程的神经生物学；2)与大麻素和内源性大麻素有关的两个过程 与P50临床研究努力相吻合的系统；3)年度成瘾神经科学 研讨会；4)培训计划年度静修；5)科学写作课程；6)公开演讲 由Activate to Captivate提供的课程；7)成瘾研究研讨会系列；8)期刊俱乐部；9) 提高再现性的方法的指导；以及10)会议报告。这将是 第一个专门针对滥用和成瘾药物的校园培训计划。 这些专注于成瘾的新中心将来自一年多的科学家和临床医生聚集在一起。 十几个部门和四所学校，以应对这一领域的重大挑战，培训和教育 下一代研究人员和临床医生，并将重要信息传播给 公开的。

Drug abuse and addiction represent major health issues both in the United States and worldwide. In the United States alone costs related to loss of work, crime, and health care exceed $700 billion a year. The field of addiction spans numerous disciplines including, but not limited to, medicine, psychiatry, neurobiology, pharmacology, public health, and law, illustrating the impact that drugs of abuse and addiction have on the human condition. We are currently experiencing an amazing growth of technologies yielding new insights into the biological effects of drugs of abuse and mechanisms for the development of dependence and addiction. At UC Irvine, the community of faculty and researchers studying the neurobiology of addiction is rapidly growing with support from the UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN), a new NIDA P50 Center of Excellence called the Impact of Cannabinoids Across Lifespan (ICAL), and a new center focused on the medical and legislative challenges of legalized marijuana (Center for the Study of Cannabis). The goal of the proposed Training Program in Substance Use and Use Disorders is to train the next generation of innovative researchers in the field of addiction neuroscience by leveraging the exceptional strength in neuroscience at UCI, and the new centers focused on addiction research, to provide an educational and research experience that will position trainees as new leaders in the field. The training program is focused on predoctoral students and will provide the following: 1) a modern and interdisciplinary neurobiology of addiction course; 2) two courses related to cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system that dovetail with the P50 ICAL research endeavors; 3) an annual addiction neuroscience symposium; 4) a training program annual retreat; 5) a scientific writing course; 6) a public speaking course provided by Activate to Captivate; 7) an addiction research seminar series; 8) a journal club; 9) instruction in methods for enhancing reproducibility; and 10) conference presentations. This will be the first training program on campus that is specifically focused on drugs of abuse and addiction. Together, the new centers focused on addiction bring together scientists and clinicians from over a dozen departments and four schools to address the grand challenges in this field, to train and educate the next generation of investigators and clinicians, and to disseminate important information to the public.