Physicians Outreach: Research to Practice

通过其校外和校内研究方案，NIDA实施了一项全面的方案，以打击非法或非医疗使用和滥用药物。这包括对药物滥用和成瘾的原因和后果、预防和治疗以及生物、社会、行为和神经科学基础的研究。 NIDA认识到医生在患者生活中发挥的重要作用，并将于2009年启动NIDAMED，这是一项专门针对医生和那些接受医生培训的人的倡议，提供教育材料、工具和资源，以增加筛查、提供简短干预并介绍与药物滥用和/或成瘾作斗争或有风险的人接受治疗的医生的数量。

Through its extramural and intramural research programs, NIDA has implemented a comprehensive program to combat the illicit or nonmedical use and abuse of drugs. This includes studies on the causes and consequences, the prevention and treatment, and the biological, social, behavioral, and neuroscientific bases of drug abuse and addiction. NIDA recognizes the major role that physicians play in the lives of their patients and in 2009 will launch NIDAMED, an initiative specifically targeted to physicians, and those training to be physicians, with educational materials, tools and resources in order to increase the number of physicians that screen, provide brief interventions, and refer to treatment persons struggling with, or at-risk for, drug abuse and/or addiction.