NIDA

Cognitive Control in Children of SUD Parents: A Longitudinal Multimodal MRI Study

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Therefore, this Stress and COVID-19 (S&C) Study is designed to understand how COVID-19 is affecting substance use (SU) and mental health (MH) across different racial/ethnic communities.

Optimizing Access, Engagement and Assessment to Elucidate Prenatal Influences on Neurodevelopment: The Brains Begin Before Birth (B4) Midwest Consortium

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This study enrolls pregnant and postpartum women into a multi-wave study to assess medical, economic, psychosocial and substance use risk across pregnancy and the perinatal period, studying associations of these factors to infant neurobehavioral development during the first year of life.

Planning for the HEALthy Early Development Study

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This project will build on an existing national pregnancy cohort study of women with a wide range of underlying health conditions to address COVID-19 symptoms, testing and antibody status, as well as the behaviors of participants during the pandemic.

Testing of a Patient-Centered e-Health Implementation Model in Addiction Treatment

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This project will enhance the ACHESS smartphone app with new COVID-19 related features and then examine how patients use ACHESS features, how organizations refer patients to the ACHESS, how they interact with patients in ACHESS, and the overall impact of the ACHESS features.

COVID-19 Pandemic Mitigation, Community Economic and Social Vulnerability, and Opioid Use Disorder

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The goal of this study is to leverage large comprehensive claims and electronic health data, capturing nearly half of the U.S. population from before the pandemic through 2026, to test our hypothesis that social and economic vulnerabilities, as well as economic side effects of the pandemic will escalate the prevalence of OUD and related harms.

States' COVID-19 Mitigation Policies and Psychological Health, Drug Overdose, and Suicide among U.S. Adults

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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.

Indigenous Pathways of Substance Use and Mental Health through Early Adulthood

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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.

The Cumulative Risk of Substance Exposure and Early Life Adversity on Child Health Development and Outcomes

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This project aims to characterize neurodevelopmental profiles in infants born to mothers with and without antenatal Covid-19 infection and examine the concurrent impact of social, economic, and substance use factors.

Increasing Peer Support for OUD Recovery during COVID-19 through Digital Health: A National Randomized Controlled Trial

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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.

Availability, Accessibility, and Structure of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Maternal and Child Health Outcomes

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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.