University of Houston Drug Abuse Research Development Program II

描述（由申请人提供）：休斯顿大学（UH）药物滥用研究发展计划更新（UHDARDP II）将发展和维持包括女性和少数民族在内的不同教师以及UH的其他教师和研究生进行药物滥用研究的能力。这将通过发展跨学科基础设施来实现，重点是治疗墨西哥裔美国人使用海洛因的情况。这项研究将对药物滥用的预防、干预和服务提供产生影响，并建立在先前资助的UHDARDP的基础上，该UHDARDP只关注墨西哥裔美国老年男性。更新的具体目标包括：1)通过整合资源、领导、管理和研究专长，进一步发展机构研究能力，从事有竞争力的药物研究；2)为培养少数民族项目主任和研究生提供概念、方法和统计支持的结构；3)执行一项创新的跨学科和转化研究计划，包括一个具有艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防成分的虚拟现实灭绝初级研究项目，以及三个额外的试点项目，旨在为更大规模的拨款申请开发能力和收集数据；4)招募不同的项目主管开展药物滥用的营养健康、社会地理和药理学后果的研究；5)弥合社会工作、心理学、健康和人类绩效领域之间的差距；基础与应用研究；研究和提供服务系统，通过制定关于药物滥用的跨学科、转化研究课程、课程和讲习班；6)招募来自不同学术和医学背景的优秀内部和外部导师和顾问团队，以加强UHDARDP II的专业发展活动和拟议的科学增强计划。辅助性核心活动包括：机构药物滥用研究

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Houston (UH) Drug Abuse Research Development Program renewal (UHDARDP II) will develop and sustain the capacity of diverse faculty, including women and minorities, and other faculty and graduate students from UH, to conduct research on drug abuse. This will be accomplished through the development of a transdisciplinary infrastructure that focuses on treatment of heroin use among Mexican Americans. The research will have implications for drug abuse prevention, intervention, and service delivery and build upon the previous funded UHDARDP that only focused on aging Mexican American males. Specific aims for the renewal include: 1) Further develop institutional research capacity to engage in competitive drug research by coalescing resources, leadership, management, and research expertise; 2) Provide a structure for conceptual, methodological and statistical support to develop minority project directors and graduate students; 3) Execute an innovative trans disciplinary and translational research program consisting of a virtual reality extinction primary research project with HIV/AIDS prevention components, and three additional pilot projects meant to develop capacity and collect data for larger grant submissions; 4) Recruit diverse project directors to develop studies on the nutritional health, social-geographical, and pharmacological consequences of drug abuse; 5) Bridge gaps between social work, psychology, and health and human performance fields; basic and applied research; and research and service delivery systems, through the development of trans disciplinary, translational research courses, curricula and workshops on drug abuse; and 6) Recruit an exceptional team of internal and external mentors and consultants from diverse academic and medical backgrounds to enhance UHDARDP II's professional development activities and proposed scientific enhancement programs. Complementary core activities include: Institutional Drug Abuse Res