# Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Program

> **NIH NIH R25** · BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER · 2024 · $372,077

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
Physicians well-trained to identify and treat patients with unhealthy substance use continue to be in short
supply; this is an acute need in the setting of the ongoing overdose epidemic. Advancing research and training
that would strengthen the clinical and research skills of physicians who are on the front lines of the current
addiction epidemic is our aspirational goal. These physicians are generalist physicians caring for patients from
adolescence through adulthood who are experiencing unhealthy substance use and subspecialty physicians
caring for patients with HIV and Hepatitis C virus infection. This renewal application proposes funding for years
21-25 (2022-2027) of the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Program to expand upon
previous successes to develop substance use disorder expertise among physician researchers and educators.
The CARE Program has the following Specific Aims: To carry out (1a) CRIT (Chief Resident Immersion
Training) – immersion training in Addiction Medicine to educate Chief Residents (CRs) to teach state-of-the-art
clinical care of patients with substance use; (1b) CARE Faculty Scholars Program – training for residency
program faculty to incorporate Addiction Medicine content into their residency program training, mentor other
faculty in this realm in their medical school and improve addiction services at their institution; (2) FIT (Fellow
Immersion Training) – immersion training in Addiction Medicine in order to prepare clinical subspecialty fellows,
including Adolescent Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Gastroenterology to incorporate substance use topics
into their research; and (3) PRiT (Physician Researchers in Training) – mentored experiences to expose
medical trainees and support early career physician faculty in the development of clinical addiction research
careers. The CARE Program faculty include NIDA-funded physician investigators experienced in both clinical
research methods and the medical care of patients with or at risk for substance use disorders. The CARE
Program components will make important contributions to the development of the next generation of diverse
physician substance use researchers and to the dissemination of addiction research in order to provide better
care for patients from adolescence through adulthood. These contributions will improve health outcomes,
especially among groups whose unhealthy substance use is undertreated – such as African American,
Hispanic, and Native American patients, as well as adolescents, resulting in reduced medical, social, and
financial burdens of addiction.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10851808
- **Project number:** 5R25DA013582-23
- **Recipient organization:** BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** JEFFREY H. SAMET
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $372,077
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2001-05-01 → 2027-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10851808

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10851808, Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Program (5R25DA013582-23). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10851808. Licensed CC0.

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