Puerto Rico Drug Abuse Research Development Program (PRDARDP II)

中加勒比大学（UCC）和位于波多黎各Bayamon的UCC医学院寻求 继续支持波多黎各药物滥用研究发展计划（PRDARP NIDA赠款 第5号R24 DA 13335），以前供资的年度为2000-2005年。这一竞争性申请旨在 继续加强UCC医学院的药物使用研究基础设施， 培训六名新的研究人员和两名学生进入药物滥用和艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究界。 根据我们成瘾研究中心和PRDARP研究人员先前的发现， 应用程序将由压力-压力-应对模型指导。三个项目是由我们的新 研究人员，一个涉及压力及其介质的流行病学，一个检查双重 第一个重点是药物使用和免疫系统压力的后果，第三个重点是应对压力。所有 作为申请的一部分附上。拟议的培训课程包括多种教育 战略包括由高级导师和顾问进行个别辅导， 艾滋病毒/艾滋病的压力和抑郁症，研究方法和压力理论。我们的目标是培养年轻人 研究人员和学生继续寻找更好地了解艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行的方法， 波多黎各，以便能够设计更有效的干预措施， 疫情

The Universidad del Central Caribe (UCC)and the UCC School of Medicine in Bayamon, Puerto Rico seeks continued support for the Puerto Rico Drug Abuse Research Development Program (PRDARP NIDA Grant No.5 R24 DA13335) previously funded for the years 2000-2005. This competing application seeks to continue the enhancement of the drug use research infrastructure at the UCC School of Medicine and to train six new researchers and two students to enter the drug abuse and HIV/AIDS research community. Based on previous findings by our Center of Addiction Studies and PRDARP researchers, this new application will be guided by the Stressors-Stress-Coping model. Three projects are proposed by our new investigators, one relating to the epidemiology of stress and its mediators, one examining the dual consequences of drug use and stress in the immune system, and the third focusing on coping with stress. All are enclosed as part of the application. The proposed training curriculum comprises multiple educational strategies including individual mentoring by senior mentors and consultants, yearly workshops related to HIV/AIDS stress and depression, research methodology, and the theory of stress.,Our aim is to train junior researchers and students to continue searching for ways to better understand the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Puerto Rico so as to be able to design more effective interventions that will halt the island's self-sustaining epidemic.