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Welcome to the CoARS website! This website provides you with updates and information on the growing science on recovery support services.
The Consortium on Addiction Recovery Science (CoARS) is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and coordinated by Dr. Aaron Hogue (PI). It is an example of NIDA’s investment in increasing our understanding of recovery support services. In 2018, NIDA announced a new funding opportunity: RFA-DA-20-014; Research Networks for the Study of Recovery Support Services for Persons Treated with Medications for Opioid Use Disorder.
Five research teams were funded, whose collective mission was to advance the science on recovery support services through research networking, training and mentoring students and early career scientists, and building community partnerships. In 2022, NIDA increased its investment in recovery support science by announcing two new RFAs: (1) fund additional research teams to build research and training infrastructure and (2) fund preliminary studies testing the effectiveness of recovery support services. NIDA also provided three years of funding to CoARS to consolidate the partnership among the eight R24 and three R34-funded research teams. This website is dedicated to sharing information on our progress, and to invite and enable participation.
• Project: Advancing the Science on Recovery Community Centers
• Topic: Recovery community centers
• PIs: John Kelly and Bettina Hoeppner
• Project: The JEAP Initiative
• Topic: Recovery support services for justice-involved and emerging adult populations
• PIs: Ashli Sheidow and Michael McCart
• Project: Studies to Advance Recovery Support (STARS)
• Topic: Recovery support services in rural settings
• PIs: Robert Pack and Kimberly Horn
• Project: Innovations in Recovery Through Infrastructure Support
• Topic: Integrated networks of care
• PIs: Jay Unick and Michelle Tuten
• Project: Collaborative Hub for Emerging Adult Recovery Research (CHEARR)
• Topic: Recovery support services, particularly clinical continuing care, for emerging adults who take or who have taken medications for opioid use disorders
• PIs: Kristyn Zajac
• Project: Peer Recovery Innovation Network (PRIN)
• Topic: TBA
• PIs: Jennifer Potter and Robert Ashford
• Project: The Infrastructure for Studying Treatment and Addiction Recovery Residences (I-STARR)
• Topic: Enhancing effectiveness research on recovery housing for persons prescribed medication for opioid use disorder
• PIs: Amy Mericle and Carmen Masson
• Project: Planning Grant for a Multi-Site Trial to Examine the Effectiveness of Recovery Community Centers Serving Black Communities to Support Persons Using Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
• Affiliation: Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital; Our community partners are the Detroit Recovery Project and the Northern Ohio Recovery Association
• PIs: Bettina Hoeppner and John Kelly
• Updates: We are readying study materials for two studies at this time: (1) naturalistic longitudinal study of people using MOUDs with and without RCC support; and (2) survey study of clinics providing MOUDs regarding their interactions with RCCs
• Project: Peer Recovery Support Services for Individuals in Recovery Residences on MOUD
• Affiliation: Maryland Treatment Centers
• PIs: Marc Fishman and Kevin Wenzel
• Updates: TBA
• Project: Development of an Integrated Intervention Involving Recovery Coaching and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Opioid Use Disorder
• Affiliation: Clemson University
• PIs: Alain Harris Litwin and Moonseong Heo
• Updates: TBA
Upcoming seminars:
Upcoming methodology group meetings:
• CoARS Measures and Metrics Workgroup: every fourth Tuesday of the month at 2:00 PM EST. Please email Craig Henderson (CEH003@SHSU.EDU) to join!
• STARS will be holding a Peer Support SIG meeting every first Thursday of the month at 4:00 PM EST.
• Stay tuned – planning has begun for our first recovery science conference, to be convened online in the fall of 2023Peer
• Please see here for a recap of key takeaways from the JEAP Initiative’s Forum Series on Exploring Barriers and Facilitators to the Use of Medications for Opioid Use Disorders (MOUD)!
• The JEAP Initiative is currently recruiting individuals living with a pain condition or in recovery from an opioid use disorder for a Lived Experience Panel to help identify ways to better share and utilize research findings to address opioid use disorder and improve pain management!
• The Center for Dissemination & Implementation at Stanford (C-DIAS) is currently recruiting for a Fellowship in Addiction Dissemination & Implementation (D&I) Science!
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Hogue, A., Bobek, M., Levy, S., Henderson, C. E., Fishman, M., Becker, S. J., Dauber, S., Porter, N., & Wenzel, K. (2021). Conceptual framework for telehealth
strategies to increase family involvement in treatment and recovery for youth opioid use disorder. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 47(2), 501-
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Hogue, A., Bobek, M., Porter, N., MacLean, A., Wenzel, K., Fishman, M., Coatsworth, J. D., & Langer, D. A. (2023). Launching relationship-oriented behavioral
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