The field trials will study processes and mechanisms that influence the successful adoption, adaptation, and sustainability of programs at the community level. Each grantee under this initiative will study one science-based drug abuse prevention intervention in several experimental and control sites.
The grantees are:
These awards were made in response to a NIDA Request for Applications, "NIDA National Prevention Research Initiative: Community: Multi-Site Prevention Trials," issued in December 2001. The RFA is one of three components of NIDA's new National Prevention Research Initiative. The other components focus on supporting basic research to develop new directions in drug abuse prevention interventions and the establishment of transdisciplinary prevention research centers.