The Northeast Node of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) is based out of Dartmouth College and includes a broad array of researchers, over 400 adult and adolescent general medical care partners, as well as other clinical, quality improvement, policy, regulatory and payer partners across the rural states of New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. The Northeast Node is affiliated with the NIDA-funded Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH), which is a P30 “Center of Excellence.”
The Northeast Node team has extensive experience in all stages of SUD intervention development, ranging from feasibility, acceptability, efficacy, efficacy-effectiveness, effectiveness (including multi-site effectiveness trials), cost-effectiveness, and implementation research in many contexts, including addiction and mental health specialty programs, medical specialty programs, hospitals, schools, criminal justice settings, and primary care. This work has included research on the integration of SUD interventions (including technology-based interventions) into health care systems. This work has been conducted with a wide array of populations including chronic drug users, smokers, veterans, chronic pain patients, persons at risk for/living with HIV, and persons with co-occurring SUDs and mental illness. This team also has considerable experience conducting research with youth, including several lines of research focused on cannabis use and prescription opioid use disorders among youth. As part of its activities, the Northeast Node will develop and support an infrastructure to enhance synergy and support bidirectional sharing of knowledge and resources between the NIDA-supported CTBH and the national CTN to inform science-based approaches for leveraging technology in the screening, prevention, treatment, recovery support, and care coordination of substance use disorders, with emphasis on youth and rural regions. Data collected from the use of this page may be used in research.
