# Sustaining evidence-based & performance-based practices in substance use disorder services

> **NIH NIH R13** · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $1

## Abstract

Project Summary
Substance use disorder (SUD) is a chronic and relapsing illness that severely affects modern American society
with insurmountable consequences. SUD is characterized by mental, physical, and behavioral imbalances that
impair self-control and tolerance, leading to withdrawal and reduced quality of life. The direct economic impact
of SUD on the United States healthcare system is more than $600 billion annually. Its indirect costs are also
equally enormous with crime-related expenses, loss of productivity, and deteriorating society. More than 23
million Americans, nearly 10%, aged 12 years and older, are known to use some form of substances.
However, about 90% of these patients do not receive therapy grounded in science resulting in a high rate of
treatment failures, underscoring the existence of a divide between science and practice. Such a shortcoming in
treatment practice is mostly because of the deficiency within the treatment system where the front-line
therapists, having a lack of knowledge, fail to provide or inconsistently deliver evidence-based interventions
(EBIs). To promote EBIs and address this daunting gap between science and practice, we propose a 1.5-day
conference once a year in the next three years under the PA-18-648: NIH Support for Conferences and
Scientific Meetings. The conference title is “Sustaining evidence-based & performance-based practices in
substance-use-disorder services.” This conference will be led by the director of the Community Academic
Partnership on Addiction (CAPA). The overarching goal of the meeting is to bring together all the stakeholders-
-scientists, practitioners, primary healthcare providers, and students. The conference will facilitate listening,
learning, familiarizing, and exchanging existing EBIs. The participants will have an opportunity to discuss
successful implementation strategies for EBIs and how they can be sustained in SUD services. In line with
these goals, the conference products will be designed to inform attendees about practical and tested
implementation methods and sustainability in a variety of SUD and related health care services. The outcome
of the conference and the products will help shape future policies, practices, health-service personnel training,
and, more importantly, generate new collaborations between the participants. As a front-runner in SUD
research and therapy with experience in organizing conferences, symposiums, and workshops, and having
state-of-the-art facilities to conduct meetings, we have unique strengths to make this annual conference on
EBIs in SUD a success. We intend to create a new platform for fruitful interaction among all SUD stakeholders
and achieve sustained EBIs as the preferred method of treatment for SUD patients.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10144769
- **Project number:** 1R13DA051121-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** David Allen Patterson Silver Wolf
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $1
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-04-01 → 2022-01-25

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10144769

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10144769, Sustaining evidence-based & performance-based practices in substance use disorder services (1R13DA051121-01A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10144769. Licensed CC0.

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