The purpose of this Program Announcement is to encourage research on interventions to improve drug abuse treatment. The aim of the grant program is to demonstrate improvements in drug abuse and dependence treatment, resulting in a greater range of effective, standard treatments enabling treatment systems to operate with greater effectiveness and efficiency. This Program Announcement, Research Program to Improve Drug Abuse Treatment, is primarily related to the priority area of alcohol and other drugs. Women and minority investigators are encouraged to apply.
Effective treatment is essential to efforts to reduce the demand for illicit drugs.
This program announcement establishes a research program to improve drug abuse treatment in accord with recommendations from the five-year treatment research planning process. The intent of the research grant program is to improve existing treatment strategies. Description of the Program. Applications submitted under this announcement should focus on improving existing treatment approaches, developing new treatment approaches, or addressing important clinical questions impacting on treatment outcome. Investigation into all types of treatment modalities is encouraged.