TRI PROJECTS-AT-A-GLANCE
(A comprehensive list of all TRI research projects and science-backed products and services, each with links to longer descriptions.)
Adaptive Services in Drug Court: Douglas B. Marlowe, J.D., Ph.D.; David S. Festinger, Ph.D. This study extends a line of health-services research aimed at adapting services in drug courts to the needs of drug-abusing offenders. The current study is examining the incremental utility gained by re-adjusting the dosage of both court hearings and clinical case-management sessions in response to participants’ on-going performance in the program.
The Addiction Severity Index was developed in the 1980s by TRI co-founder A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D. and others from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to a series of TRI training protocols and other materials developed since introduction of the ASI, TRI hosts an ASI “Helpline” and is a repository for the instruments, manuals, and coding tools that help practitioners incorporate the instrument into clinical practice.
Addiction Studies Program for the States: Jack Kemp: Co-directed by the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the National Families in Action, with assistance from TRI and the National Conference of State Legislatures, this project delivers empirical education to teams of state executive and legislative branch policy makers for their use in devising effective, science-based responses to local issues of addiction and substance use.
Adaptive Treatment for Alcohol Dependence: James McKay, Ph.D. This pilot project is employing an adaptive protocol to evaluate telephone-based approaches to increase rates of initial engagement in patients with alcohol use disorders who complete an intake in a community-based Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), but fail to engage in treatment over the next two weeks. For patients who initially engage but later drop out, the project is evaluating an alternative telephone-based strategy.
Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Addiction: Family-Focused Strategies: Amelia Arria, Ph.D. A project by the Betty Ford Institute to incorporate parenting skills education into substance abuse treatment for adults.
Brief Intervention for Drug-Abusing Delinquents/Parents: Ken C. Winters, Ph.D., Richard Dembo, Ph.D.; Steven Belenko, Ph.D. TRI is providing cross section staff support for this R21 study addressing the treatment gap for substance abusing juvenile offenders by modifying an existing brief intervention (BI) for at-risk juvenile offenders and their parents/caregivers.
Brief Intervention for Drug Use and HIV/STD Prevention among Truants: Richard Dembo, Ph.D., Ken C. Winters, Ph.D.; Steven Belenko, Ph.D. In collaboration with Dr. Richard Dembo of the University of South Florida, this project is studying the effects of a Brief Intervention (BI) for truant youth with mild to moderate substance abuse problems.
Contingency Management for Cocaine Dependence: Cash vs. Vouchers: David S. Festinger, Ph.D.; Kimberly C. Kirby, Ph.D. This is a study examining practical and ethical issues relating to monetary-based Contingency Management (CM) procedures.
Computer-Assisted System for Patient Assessment and Referral (CASPAR): Bucks, Delaware and Montgomery Counties, PA and South Jersey: Deni Carise, Ph.D. These NIH-funded studies are replications of a previous study in Philadelphia on a computerized system to assist counselors in the patient assessment and referral process (CASPAR). The studies are two-phased evaluations of a CASPAR-centered Quality Improvement Initiative in seven agencies, involving up to 36 counselors and 400 patients.
CASPAR-C™: Deni Carise, Ph.D.; Meghan Love: software that treatment programs can populate with information on low- or no-cost services in the community that are frequently necessary to support patients’ recovery.
CRAFT: Helping Parents Initiate & Support their Adolescent’s Treatment: Kimberly Kirby, Ph.D: This is a project of the Parents Translational Research Center to adapt the CRAFT intervention (empirically demonstrated for use with adults) for parent use with treatment-resistant adolescents.
DENS™: Deni Carise, Ph.D.; Meghan Love: patient assessment software incorporating the Addiction Severity Index 5th Edition, developed with partial funding from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and now widely used in numerous state, local and private treatment systems.
Developing a Consumer Guide to Adolescent Drug Treatment: John Cacciola, Ph.D: A project of the Parents Translational Research Center to empirically develop for parent use a comparative list of evidence-based practices used in adolescent treatment programs in the City of Philadelphia, with dissemination plans for replicating the approach in other U.S. jurisdictions.
Development of a Prevention Intervention for Low-Risk Drug Court Clients: David S. DeMatteo, J.D., Ph.D. With a multidisciplinary expert panel, this study is developing and conducting preliminary analyses of a secondary prevention intervention for adult drug court clients who do not have a diagnosable or clinically significant substance use disorder.
Enhancing Juvenile Drug Court Outcomes with EBPs: Steven Belenko, Ph.D. and David S. Festinger, Ph.D. TRI is collaborating with principal investigator Dr. Scott Henggeler at the Medical University of South Carolina on this NIDA-funded study to develop and test a relatively low-cost strategy for enhancing juvenile drug courts outcomes by integrating components of evidence-based treatments (contingency management and family engagement strategies) into existing treatment services.
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