FRI is pleased to announce that Shannon Gwin Mitchell, Ph.D., along with Co-Investigators Robert Schwartz and Barry Brown, have received a grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse entitled “SBIRT Implementation for Adolescents in Urban Federally Qualified Health Centers.” The proposed study is significant because it will help determine whether one adolescent Screening, […]
Dr. Whitt-Glover is President and CEO of Gramercy Research Group in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is a community-based researcher with background, training, and experience in exercise science and epidemiology. Her research activities include developing and assessing interventions to increase physical activity in racial/ethnic minority communities. FRI researchers look forward to collaborating with Dr. Whitt-Glover on […]
Read a 2012 NPR article that refers to FRI Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Jerome Jaffe, about a connection between New Year’s Resolutions and the landmark study about heroin addiction among returning Vietnam War veterans commissioned by Dr. Jaffe and led by the late Dr. Lee Robins. [ What Vietnam Taught Us About Breaking Bad Habits ]
Dr. Thomas Hanlon has had a long and distinguished career in the areas of personality assessment and treatment evaluation. His initial research experience involved conducting clinical psychopharmacological trials largely involving the treatment of schizophrenic and other seriously ill psychiatric patients. During this same period, he also participated in early treatment evaluation studies of the effectiveness […]
FRI is pleased to announce that its Medical Director, Robert Schwartz, M.D., was recently invited to serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (JSAT). The Journal features original research, systematic reviews and reports on meta-analyses on addictive disorders, including alcohol, illicit and prescription drugs, and nicotine. Dr. Schwartz’s appointment is […]
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 […]