PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM TRI
Putting Science to Work through Empirically Developed Products and Services
A defining feature of TRI is its emphasis on products that foster quality practice through science. With grant funding, other times via fees with revenue recapture and reinvestment, TRI promotes beneficial change by putting science to actual work in the form of products that are time-saving, promote empirically suggested practices and are compatible with the real-world conditions under which agents of change operate.
The Drug Evaluation Network System (DENS™), introduced in 1999, is the first product where TRI translated research findings into a working tool for treatment counselors. Introduction of DENS led hundreds of treatment programs - nationally and internationally - to incorporate the ASI-based software program into their treatment systems (a process that continues to this day). By specifically designing a technology-enhanced product valuable to busy treatment counselors, TRI’s introduction of DENS created momentum for the Addiction Severity Index and its derivative tools – not just for data collection or accountability purposes, but as instruments for clinically improving prospects for substance abuse treatment patients.
Building on this theme, in 2005 TRI undertook a collaboration with the Partnership at Drugfree.org (formerly the Partnership for a Drug Free America) to create science-informed helping tools for parents struggling to protect children from the dangers of alcohol and drugs. That collaboration partially formed the basis for the Parents Translational Research Center, funded in 2010 by NIDA and one of the first translational research centers of its kind devoted to research and development of practical tools for parents and other caregivers confronting issues of drug or alcohol use in their teenagers. By 2008, the Treatment Research Solutions Group was formed within TRI as the coordinating hub where science-based products (most of them technology enhanced) are developed and introduced.
TRI offers other empirically derived products and some services that it promotes throughout the drug and alcohol field. Examples include trainings for treatment counselors, Research Briefs summarizing research findings for practitioners and policy makers, and periodic announcements of important research, policy, or practice-relevant developments.
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