TRI
Releases Risk and Needs Triage: RANT™
Rigorously grounded in scientific evidence, web-based decision support
tool for judges and other criminal justice officials helps match drug-involved
offenders to the community corrections programs best suited to their need
for supervision and treatment. Read announcement
or visit the RANT™ web
site.
TRI’s
Mady Chalk, Ph.D. delivers keynote conference address, lauding project and
urging more effort on several fronts. More
Purchasing
for performance may create treatment “value” leading to quality
improvement, according to upcoming article by McLellan and Kemp in Health
Policy. More
TRI Hosts International Scholar: Visiting investigator from Greece delves into policy reform, quality improvement projects at TRI.
Youth Drug Abuse: ONDCP launches new ad campaign aimed at teenagers.
Adolescent Brain Development: Short report discusses still-developing brain segments, implications for drug effects on teens.
Marlowe Joins NADCP: TRI Investigator to remain as Senior Consultant. Read announcement.
Monitoring and Recovery: Monitoring instrument with associated intervention under development by John Cacciola, Ph.D.
Contingency Management: TRI will evaluate cash versus non-cash contingency management protocols.
Prevention Intervention for Adult Drug Court Patients: NIDA Behavioral Therapy Development grant will fund development of prevention intervention for low-risk, adult drug court clients.
TRI
study questions popularly held view that addiction to potent pain reliever
primarily strikes the drug “naïve.” More
Now-retired
SSA Director from Delaware will continue focus on state and local policy
reform as TRI Senior Policy Advisor. Announcement
