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$4.5 million awarded to create community drug abuse prevention trials network

on will study a field trial initiated and funded by the Norwegian government to teach parents child-rearing practices that prevent deviant child behavior and promote healthy family development. Marion S. Forgatch is the principal investigator.

  • Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Promoting Fidelity using Remote and Onsite Support. This project will test the relative effects of two training conditions to maintain the fidelity of a research-based prevention curriculum during implementation. Christopher L. Ringwalt is the principal investigator.

    These awards were made in response to a NIDA Request for Applications, "NIDA National Prevention Research Initiative: Community: Multi-Site Prevention Trials," issued in December 2001. The RFA is one of three components of NIDA's new National Prevention Research Initiative. The other components focus on supporting basic research to develop new directions in drug abuse prevention interventions and the establishment of transdisciplinary prevention research centers.


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    • Contact: Blair Gately
    Bgately@nida.nih.gov
    301-443-6245
    NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse
    5-Nov-2002


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