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Dr. Keith Warren Secures Huge NIDA Grant

Dr. Keith Warren Secures Huge NIDA Grant

November 16, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Keith Warren whose project titled “Development of a statistical framework for the analysis of social network predictors of therapeutic community outcomes” was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This is a three-year grant with total funding of nearly $700,000.

More about the project

Therapeutic communities (TCs) are residential peer support treatment programs for substance abuse, staffed by professionals. In TCs, the community itself is the method of treatment. Clinical change arises from the network of peer interactions. We will be mapping that network and learning the ways in which it predicts outcomes. For example, our pilot work indicates that residents who graduate are connected to other residents who graduate, who are connected to still other residents who graduate. Thus, your success in the program is not just a matter of the people you directly interact with, it goes out one further network jump to the people who interact with them.

For more information about Warren, click here.