SUD/MI

The overall objective of the project is to test the efficacy of the community-based, “Weaving Healthy Families program (WHF)”, which aims to prevent, reduce, and postpone the secondary health effects of COVID-19, while promoting resilience and wellness (including mental health) among Native American adults and youth.

The overarching objective of this project is to rigorously assess how state-level COVID-19 mitigation policies have affected psychological health and related mortality from drug overdose and suicide among working age and older adults.

This project will focus on changes in drinking patterns, substance use, and mental health measures from before to during the COVID-19 restriction period, associations between drinking patterns and COVID-19 risk behaviors, and behavioral health care need, access and utilization with attention to racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities.

This project aims to understand the broad impact of COVID-19 and related stressors on substance use and access to addiction treatment among Indigenous young adults living on or near reservations/reserves.

This project uses a randomized controlled trial of a novel mobile peer support app platform among a national sample of 1300 patients in recovery from opioid use disorders (OUDs), as an adjunct to usual care, during COVID-19.

Among rural Black men, we hypothesize that alcohol use may accelerate the spread of SARS CoV-2 settings and interactions in which they may be likely to become infected or to infect others.

Using existing healthcare data, this study seeks to quantify the effects of healthcare system responses to COVID-19 on outcomes among pregnant and postpartum women with OUD and describe how COVID-19 infection influences morbidity among pregnant women with OUD.

Virtual options, such as social media, hold promise as sustainable and scalable intervention strategies to promote access to smoking cessation treatment among AN people, and other groups who experience a disproportionate burden of tobacco-related morbidity/mortality.

This study uses the infrastructure of the Mental Health Research Network to examine how changing from office visits to telehealth visits disrupts care of people with mental health conditions in three healthcare systems.

This study leverages the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) cohort to examine the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on developmental trajectories of brain functioning, cognition, substance use, academic achievement, social functioning, and physical and mental health in children.