NIATx Exhibits at the 2009 AHSR Conference

NIATx exhibited four posters at this year's Addictions Health Services Research (AHSR) conference, held October 28-30 in San Francisco, California. The theme of this year's conference was Health Care Reform, Parity, and Continuing Care Models: A Forum for a New Era in Addiction Services Research.

These posters presented variety of NIATx themes, including the costs and benefits of addiction treatment from the employer’s perspective; the sustainability of process improvements; implementation of evidence-based practices; and, the importance of coordinated hand-off processes.

• A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Wisconsin's Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment Program: the Employer's Perspective
• Predicting Organizational Likelihood to Sustain Change Over Time
• Using a Learning Collaborative to Implement Evidence-based Practices in Chemical Dependency Services: One County's Journey
• Improving the Addiction Treatment Continuum through Improved Transitions
  

The conference also provided researcher Andrew Quanbeck, who attended the conference on behalf of NIATx, with an opportunity to interact with some of the preeminent researchers in the field:

"This year's conference drove home the fact that there's a lot changing in addiction treatment these days," noted Quanbeck. "And, it's encouraging to see that many presenters from across the country talked about NIATx change initiatives--it seems that process improvement is really starting to take hold in the field."

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The AHSR conference welcomes researchers, practitioners, trainees, policymakers, and other stakeholders interested in health services research as it relates to drug and alcohol dependence, as well as the intersection with mental health and other behavioral health care issues.