TRI Treatment Research Institute: Science Over Addiction

What We Do

Research

Products & Services

Founded by the same researchers who developed the Addiction Severity Index, TRI is an independent, nonprofit research and development organization dedicated to science-driven reform of treatment and policy in substance use.

TRI is one of the most acclaimed research groups in the nation in addiction and substance use, conducting state-of-the-science research to evaluate what works and why – for men, women, adolescents, offenders, and others whose substance use or abuse has compromised their lives.

By engineering research findings into solutions-oriented products and services, TRI puts science to work for treatment counselors, criminal justice officials, policy makers, and parents.

TRI Sections

Clinical Practice

Behavioral Interventions

Law & Ethics

Treatment Systems Research

Center on the Continuum of Care:

Monitoring and Adapting Addiction Treatment

Center for Policy Research and

Analysis

Adolescents

Treatment Research Solutions

Wharton-TRI Center on the

Organization and Management of Addiction Treatment

Clinical Trials Network

Addiction to alcohol or other drugs is a chronically relapsing medical disease that cannot be cured but can be managed. TRI evaluates and adapts continuing care and other interventions to promote quality treatment and recovery oriented practices.

Policy

Policy makers exert considerable influence over substance use programming. Through consultation, learning academies, and other venues, TRI helps policy makers advance quality through improved purchasing, standard-setting or other government activities.

For Parents

Research and science-based translation at TRI helps parents trying to keep children safe from drugs and alcohol.

In the News

Quick Links

Alcohol Energy Drinks: FDA to review safety after research, policy input.

Web-Based Clinical Monitoring: TRI will empirically develop automated alert system and counselor intervention for patients at high risk for treatment drop-out.

Time to Act: for parents who know or suspect children are using.

TRI-CEP: evaluation tool for drug, other problem-solving courts.

RANT: web-based placement tool for drug-involved offenders.

Ethics of Research: TRI will develop Coercion Assessment Scale.

NQF Treatment Standards: dissemination and implementation project for policy makers.

Research Scientist Positions: For the Sections on Law & Ethics and Behavioral Interventions.

WebSafe: on-line resource for parents trying to protect children from Internet drug and alcohol threats.

Substance Use and Health Reform: fact sheet documenting medical costs of unrecognized, untreated substance use disorders.

Addiction Severity Index (ASI)

Other Assessment Instruments

Publications

Presentations