Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and Evaluation

Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and Evaluation Research, program evaluation, policy, and grant services Our client follow-up rates are over 80% and as high as 95% for some projects.

The Consortium is part of the University of Iowa, Office of the Vice President of Research and Economic Development. https://research.uiowa.edu/


The Consortium has over 25 years of experience monitoring and analyzing outcomes for substance abuse prevention and treatment programs. We have evaluated single and multi-site projects for schools, cities, counties, and the State of Iowa, as well as, for national agencies (e.g., US Department of Justice, Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, and US Department of Education). Our evaluations often involve long-term monitoring of outcomes via in-person or telephone follow-up interviews with clients. We also regularly perform process and ecological evaluations. Samples of our evaluation reports are available on our Projects and Reports page. We typically work closely with an agency early in the grant application process to assist in developing the program evaluation plan, logic model, and setting measurable program goals. This arrangement allows us to integrate the program evaluation seamlessly with the agency's service provision throughout the process. We can write or assist with writing or reviewing the evaluation section of the application. We can also conduct an overall grant application review. We have many years of experience with local, state, and federal grant application processes. Our experience has included:

Drug courts
Community treatment agencies
Statewide treatment monitoring
County treatment projects
Statewide prevention and treatment projects
School prevention projects
Environmental prevention projects

The Consortium can assist your agency by evaluating and selecting evidence based prevention or treatment programs to meet the goals of your project. We can also assist you in identifying measurable goals and objectives. We have 25 years of experience with many evidence based treatment and prevention protocols in a variety of settings, schools, jails, treatment agencies, drug courts, and communities. Based on the services you want to provide and the population you want to serve, we will help identify available program options. We have access to the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP). Additionally, we have access to the largest medical, scientific, and substance abuse literature database in the nation and can perform comprehensive current literature searches. After we narrow down the practices that might fit your needs, we can contact developers to determine costs for training, cost of materials, and other logistics to get the program implemented in your agency.

07/02/2019
It might not be needed as much here but it is still a good idea:
08/23/2018

It might not be needed as much here but it is still a good idea:

Some hospital emergency departments are giving people medicine for withdrawal, plugging a hole in a system that too often fails to provide immediate treatment.

08/22/2018

Stigma is still very real

And
08/21/2018

And

August 17, 2018 Bill White Remission/Recovery from Cannabis Use Disorders: Update In my blog of January 29, 2016, I reviewed recent research on remission and recovery from cannabis use disorders in the United States. I outlined the dependency-producing properties of cannabis and the nature and preva...

To round out the discussion:
08/21/2018

To round out the discussion:

There are real concerns with ma*****na addiction. That doesn’t mean legalization is a bad idea.

A good media report about the media's reporting:
08/20/2018

A good media report about the media's reporting:

After Jillian Bauer-Reese created an online collection of opioid recovery stories, she began to get calls for help from reporters. But she was dismayed by the narrowness of the requests, which sought only one type of interviewee. “They were looking for people who had started on a prescription from...

Finally supporting research a little, maybe:
08/19/2018

Finally supporting research a little, maybe:

The Drug Enforcement Administration wants 5,400 pounds of legal cannabis grown in the U.S. in 2019, while the agency is also pushing for a reduction in opioid production.

This is an excellent resource:
08/16/2018

This is an excellent resource:

Dynamic visualizations of the current flow of drug overdose data collected and analyzed by CDC. This web-based application allows people to create customized, visual interpretations of provisional drug overdose data, as well as make comparisons across jurisdictions and data years.

Federal regulations are a barrier -
08/15/2018

Federal regulations are a barrier -

Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Primary Care and the Opioid-Overdose Crisis — Buprenorphine Myths and Realities

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