Substance Abuse and Addiction Research: Methodology, Mechanisms, and Therapeutics

Basics of Research Methodology 1. Reliability and validity in substance abuse and addiction research 2. Animal models 3. Translational research strategies 4. Experimental design in clinical trials Part 1 5. Experimental design in clinical trials Part 2 6. Qualitative and quantitative methods 7. Ethical issues in opioids, alcohol, other drugs and addiction-related research: 8. Informatics 9. Artificial intelligence and machine learning 10. Epidemiology and health services research methods 11. Imaging 12. Systematic review and meta-analysis Mechanisms of abuse and addiction 13. Abuse and addiction 14. Assessment of addiction/pain and neurobiology 15. Physiological considerations in opioid addiction 16. Basic pharmacology - opioid substances 17. Basic pharmacology - non-opioid substances 18. Types of addiction 19. Substance use 20. Special study populations Investigative Therapeutics: Designing studies and measuring outcomes 21. General therapy strategies in substance addiction 22. Alternative Therapy Strategies in Addiction 23. Drug testing and adherence monitoring 24. Pharmacogenetics - Genes, genetics, genomics and epigenetics 25. Novel therapeutic strategies effectiveness 26. Methods of psychosocial interventions 27. Principles of vaccine development 28. Drug policy analysis 29. Implementation science: Theories, models and frameworks 30. Designing and testing population-based prevention programs 31. New vistas in research