Summer 2010 - McLean Hospital - Harvard University

The Northern New EnglanderNew Faces at SSTARRita Chapdelaine, graduated from UMass Dartmouth in 2008 with a B.A. in Sociology. She iscurrently pursuing an MSW at Boston University. In March 2010, she began working atSSTAR. Her professional interests are addictions counseling and research.Autumn Froias, graduated from Boston University in January of 2010 with a B.A. in Psychologyand Sociology. She has been working as a research assistant at STARR since March2010. Her professional interests include dual diagnosis treatment and research.New Faces at McLean HospitalJacob Augenstern, graduated from Harvard University in May 2010 with a B.A. in Psychology. He hasworked at McLean Hospital, as a research assistant in ADATP, since June 2010. His professional interests includemood disorders, aggression, anxiety and substance abuse.Kate Frost, graduated from Wellesley College in the spring of 2010, with a B.A. in Psychology and ReligiousStudies. She has worked at McLean Hospital, as a research assistant in ADATP, since June 2010. Her professionalinterests include the neuroscience of child and adolescent psychopathology, specifically including OCDand childhood schizophrenia.Jessica Dreifuss, Ph.D. , recently joined the staff as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow after completing her doctoratein Clinical Psychology at the University of Georgia. Jessie is very excited about joining the research teamin the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse. She is particularly looking forward to increasing her knowledge andproficiency with substance use disorders and their treatment, expanding and refining her research skills, and immersingherself in the NIDA Clinical Trials Network.CTN Research in the NewsMain outcome findings from the NIDA CTN-0010 study examining treatments for opioid-addicted adolescentswere summarized in the recent issue of NIDA Notes [Vol. 23 (1), pages. 8-9]. The aim of the studywas to determine if a 12-week course of outpatient buprenorphine/naloxone (Bup/Nal) plus psychosocialtreatment resulted in fewer opioid positive urine tests at 3 monthly evaluation points among opioid dependentadolescents and young adults (ages 14-21) than the usual treatment, which was detoxification plus psychosocialtreatment alone. Mercy Hospital Recovery Center (Westbrook, ME) was a participating CommunityTreatment Program in the CTN-0010 study from the Northern New England Node. A PDF version ofNIDA Notes is available at: http://www.drugabuse.gov/nida_notes/nnv23index.html. Main outcome resultsfrom the full study were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 2008; 300(17):2003-2011.2