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Published Online: 18 October 2002

MH Agencies Build Fast Lane From Research to Clinical Practice

Jim RosackAuthors Info & Affiliations
Publication: Psychiatric News
Volume 37, Number 20
https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.37.20.0010a
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In keeping with the agency’s theme under Administrator Charles Curie, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced last month that it is partnering with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to bring results from its National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) to treatment centers across the country quicker than ever before.
The $1.5 million agreement between the two agencies will help Curie achieve his goal of improving the translation of “science into service.” Under the agreement, NIDA will provide funding to support SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Addiction Technology Transfer Centers, a network of 14 independent regional centers whose goal is to increase addiction treatment knowledge and skills.
NIDA’s CTN now has 17 research nodes in 27 states across the country, conducting a variety of research protocols on behavioral, pharmacological, and combined treatment interventions in 120 community treatment facilities.
“This collaborative effort puts into place a system whereby health care providers can be more rapidly alerted to new and improved medications and behavioral therapies with which to treat patients for drug abuse and addiction,” said Glen R. Hanson, D.D.S., Ph.D., acting director of NIDA.
Curie noted, “This partnership is a significant step in our efforts working with the national institutes to define and develop a ‘Sciences to Services’ cycle, to reduce the time between the discovery of an effective treatment or intervention and its adoption as part of community-based care.”
According to the Institute of Medicine, it can take up to 20 years for new treatments that have been found effective in clinical trials to become standard in the field. Both Hanson and Curie said that timeframe must be reduced and agreed that the new partnership is the first step in that direction. ▪

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A partnership between government agencies is designed to speed up transfer of knowledge gained from research in drug treatment to patients in clinics across the country.

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