RESEARCH
AT TRI
Investigators at the Treatment Research Institute are dedicated to the advancement of treatment effectiveness in substance abuse through research and dissemination. In academic and real-world settings, TRI scientists conduct original research and evaluate the findings of their peers to identify what works and what doesn’t in substance abuse treatment.
- Behavioral Interventions
- Law & Ethics: Strategies for the Drug Involved Offender
- Treatment
Systems Research
The Treatment Systems Section is developing technology-based strategies to increase the availability, accessibility and quality of substance abuse treatment. The DENS Software Suite, an electronic ASI-based assessment system, has been installed in hundreds of clinics across the country, in several state-wide systems and in Thailand, Hungary, the Netherlands and Sweden. The DENS system expedites administration of the ASI, generates reports, and provides data for service organizations to self-monitor performance, make programmatic changes as a result of this information and report results to regulators and policy makers. The Treatment Systems Section has also developed the "CASPAR" or “Computer Assisted System for Patient Assessment and Referral”. Piloted in Philadelphia, CAPSAR is an electronic referral system added to the DENS software package to make it easier for clinicians to refer patients to services matched to problem areas from their ASI.
- Delaware Valley Node, NIDA Clinical Trials Network
- Chronic Care Models: Monitoring & Adapting Addiction Treatment
- Adolescents
Center
on the Continuum of Care:
Monitoring and Adapting Addiction Treatment
Wharton-TRI
Center on the
Organization and Management of Addiction Treatment