Our Projects
Promoting Effective Use of Opioid Settlement Funds
We have used our research on effective, public health-based approaches to addressing substance use and addiction to provide recommendations for decisionmakers on spending the opioid settlement funds, specifically focused on effective prevention.
SUD
Prevention
Research
Policy
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Promoting Access to Quality, Affordable Addiction Treatment
We promote access to quality addiction care by improving insurance coverage to make treatment affordable, including through research identifying insurance barriers and recommendations and efforts to promote parity compliance and enforcement.
SUD
School-based
Treatment
Trainings
Research
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Protecting Youth from the Harms of Legal Addictive Substances
We are working to help federal and state governments keep legal addictive substances out of the hands of young people by identifying effective youth protection provisions.
SUD
School-based
Prevention
Trainings
Research
Policy
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BabySTEPs: Supporting Transitions for Expectant and Postpartum Parents – Research
The goal of the BabySTEPs research study is to develop a tailored text messaging intervention to address alcohol use in the early postpartum period. We are comparing different types of messages in terms of their acceptability to the target audience as well as their impact on motivation, self-efficacy, and alcohol use.
Family members/Community
Prevention
Treatment
Research
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