FRI is pleased to announce that its Medical Director, Robert Schwartz, M.D., was recently invited by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime to present on evidenced-based drug abuse treatment guidelines and his recent research findings at an International Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, which was held at the Bekhterev Research Psychoneurological Institute on […]
Friends Research Institute was recently named to the list of “The Baltimore Sun Top Workplaces” for 2011. The evaluation for the Top Workplaces program is based upon feedback from employee surveys. FRI had a high survey response rate from its employees. Of 115 companies that participated in the program, 75 companies were selected for the […]
Dr. Frank Vocci has been named as the third Co-Editor of Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). Dr. Vocci joins Journal of Addiction Medicine at a critical time, with the journal experiencing such recent changes as inclusion in PubMed, a commitment to increase issue count from […]
FRI is pleased to announce that Shannon Gwin Mitchell, Ph.D., Research Scientist, has received a grant award from the Abell Foundation to collect 12-month follow-up data on 100 study participants currently enrolled in her NIDA-funded study entitled “Intensive Outpatient v. Outpatient Treatment with Buprenorphine among African Americans.” This new grant award will provide approximately $30,000 […]
FRI is pleased to announce that our research on Interim Methadone, Principal Investigator Dr. Robert Schwartz and Co-Investigators Drs. Jerome Jaffe and Sharon Kelly, has been listed on the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Program’s website of evidence based practices. In addition, FRI is please to announce that our research on Prison-Initiated Methadone Maintenance […]
Friends Research Institute (FRI) was one of ten grantees awarded a five-year Seek, Test, and Treat: Addressing HIV in the Criminal Justice System grant funded through the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This grant will be conducted in two sites. The Baltimore Maryland site will be led by Principal Investigator Dr. Michael S. Gordon and […]
Effective December 29, 2009, the West Coast Administrative Office’s new address is 11835 W. Olympic Boulevard, Suite 755E, Los Angeles, CA 90064. Phone and fax numbers remain the same.
The FRI Corporate Headquarters has moved its office to the Social Research Center site effective November 1, 2009. The new address is 1040 Park Avenue, Suite 103, Baltimore, MD 21201. The phone number is 410-837-3977 and the fax number is 410-752-4218. The main email address remains the same at FRI@friendsresearch.org.
Friends Research Institute via Dr. Frank Vocci was recently involved in the development of case-based activity regarding opioid therapy in primary care and chronic pain. Below are descriptions of the activities. Description of Internet Activity A Case-Based Approach to the Safe and Effective Use of Opioid Therapy in Primary Care This CME/CE case activity was developed by […]
FRI is pleased to announce that Monique Wilson, Dr.P.H., a Research Scientist at the Social Research Center, has received an award from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Loan Repayment Program. In exchange for a two-year commitment to a research career with FRI, NIH will repay up to $35,000 per year of Dr. Wilson’s qualified […]
