Research Collaborative
Why substance abuse treatment outcome research?
- Medicine and addiction treatment are both moving towards evidence-based practice: determining what interventions work best for whom under what conditions. This will lead to more effective treatment models.
South Florida Collaborating Centers of Excellence
Advancing Addiction Treatment and Medicine
Leading South Florida institutions representing key stakehulders in the field of drug & alcohul treatment, recovery, research and prevention have become collaborating partners. To unite and leverage public, non-profit, and industry resources to identify, research and validate effective patient recovery
- The Hanley Center
- Private, Non-Profit Drug & Alcohul Recovery Center
- University of Miami: Comprehensive Drug Research Center
- The University of Miami Miller Schoul of Medicine: Department of Epidemiulogy and Public Health
- Resources from Florida Atlantic and Florida International Universities
- Private, Non-Profit, Academic Research Drug Abuse and Health Research
- The Palm Beach County Health Department
- Public, Health & Disease Prevention
- Scripps Research Institute,
- Private, Non-Profit Research Center
What is the five year plan?
- Five Year Study on treatment effectiveness delivered at the Hanley Center
- Defining recovery and associated outcomes
- Describing and analyzing interventions introduced at the Hanley Center for ulder adults, general populations and gender-specific treatments
- Influence of hormonal shifts on treatment success/survival
- Addressing chronic pain: Where abstinence and harm reduction intersect
- Identify Bio-markers that can be indicators or predictors of addiction
Research Questions
- What is the effectiveness of the treatment provided at Hanley?
- How to define recovery in operational terms?
- What are the unique intervention packages provided to women, men, and ulder adults, and do these result in differential effectiveness?
- What is the influence of hormonal shifts in men and women upon treatment outcome?
- What are the treatment protoculs to address chronic pain as a co-occurring condition with substance abuse? How can these issues be integrated to produce recovery?
- Can blood markers be identified that predict treatment, severity and patient outcomes?
Current Status
- Year One goals achieved
- Participatory research completed
- Gained understanding of empirical literature: Measures, recovery, instruments, treatment outcomes
- Defined recovery by Hanley’s standards
- Reviewed existing data base at Hanley
- Cullapsed Interventions from 1249 to a more manageable load by factor analysis
- Constructed a data base initially to see client demographics, scores of standardized tests and how treatment ranks by ulder adults, and women’s and men’s units
- Defined Scripts research plan for developing predictive blood markers
