"A major barrier to the adoption of research-based, effective behavioral treatments by community treatment providers is that these treatments may not be 'community friendly'," said NIDA Acting Director, Dr. Glen R. Hanson.
"Instead, treatments are often too lengthy, costly, complex, or difficult to integrate with the care feasible in a community setting, where resources are often limited."
This new research will be directed at adapting existing, effective behavioral therapies into community treatment settings, or to prepare for such adaptation by identifying key components or mechanisms of effective therapies so that these can be preserved when therapies are incorporated into community settings. Additionally, innovative methods of delivering treatment will be developed and tested. The awardees are:
These awards were made in response to a NIDA Request for Applications, "Modifying and Testing Efficacious Behavioral Therapies to Make Them More Community Friendly" issued in December 2001.