Technology-based Treatments for Substance Use Disorders

利用技术提供以物质使用障碍和相关问题（包括艾滋病毒和共存障碍）为目标的循证行为改变干预措施，可使此类干预措施在不同环境中向各种受众广泛传播。我们的研究小组开展的开创性工作导致了对成人和青少年药物滥用治疗的创新和有效的技术干预措施的确定，药物滥用成人和青少年的艾滋病毒预防，以及儿童，青少年和年轻人的药物滥用预防。拟议的P30中心（技术与健康中心[CTH]）的总体目标是整合多个学科的专业知识，并提供基础设施，以提高我们团队创新科学研究和开发活动的质量、成就速度和影响，这些活动系统地将基于科学的行为改变干预措施与最先进的技术相结合，以创造，经验测试和传播针对物质使用障碍和相关问题的基于技术的干预措施。该中心将通过4个核心实现这一目标。(1)科学核心将作为中心研究人员提高其研究项目质量、效率和影响的资源。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，整合项目间的结果和方法，并研究未探索的经验问题。(2)传播和实施核心将在专家委员会的咨询下向广大受众传播综合项目方法和结果，并作为提供知识和促进获取针对物质使用障碍和相关问题的基于技术的行为改变干预措施的集中资源（通过干预措施的在线“工具包”和在社区系统中采用的“路线图”）。我们还将培养这一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”，然后在试点阶段之后通过外部资助机制进行更严格的实证测试。该核心将支持新颖的试点项目，这些项目有望对该领域产生变革性影响。(4)行政核心将提供方案领导，确保各核心之间的活动成功协调，并提供基础设施，以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.