# Patients, Populations, AND Processes: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Addiction Health Services Improvement

> **NIH NIH R13** · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · 2021 · $15,000

## Abstract

Summary/Abstract
The recent report issued by the Surgeon General's Office, “Facing Addiction in America,” the first of its kind
issued by the Surgeon General, brought into stark relief the major impact of substance misuse and use
disorders and the need to rethink how prevention and treatment services are currently delivered in the United
States. While isolated aspects of substance misuse are improving, such as tobacco cessation and opioid
prescribing practices, enormous service gaps persist that allow the ongoing and enormous negative impacts of
risky and problem substance use. Further, these negative impacts put a particular burden on gender and
ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged populations and communities.
The isolation of specialist substance abuse treatment from mainstream medicine, the report further points out,
presents a barrier to a potentially more effective public health model to reduce substance-related harms. If this
landscape of epidemic substance misuse, use disorders, and related conditions is to improve and patient and
public health and safety outcomes enhanced, prevention and treatment services delivery require rethinking.
The Addiction Health Services Research conference, held since 2005, has annually brought together
researchers, policy makers, and treatment providers to focus upon how such systems redesign might most
effectively be implemented and sustained. In the current application, we propose to enhance this conference
by specifically focusing on improving the well-being of gender and ethnic minorities and other marginalized
groups struggling with risky and problem substance use and by encouraging participation by underrepresented
scientists through establishment of a NIDA Minority Investigator Award and enhancement of a junior
investigator mentoring program. A slate of distinguished plenary speakers, discussion of cutting-edge health
services research findings, the development of collaborative relationships, and support of the careers of junior
and minority investigators is proposed to move forward an agenda of broadening the positive impact of
prevention and treatment services for substance misuse and use disorders.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10237335
- **Project number:** 5R13DA044722-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
- **Principal Investigator:** Randall T Brown
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $15,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-01 → 2022-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10237335

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10237335, Patients, Populations, AND Processes: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Addiction Health Services Improvement (5R13DA044722-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10237335. Licensed CC0.

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