September 2008

Dear research colleagues, community service providers, fellow faculty members, students, and friends:

Welcome to the Center for Addictions Research and Services website. We have had a very active and fruitful year as researchers, trainers and mentors of graduate students. Faculty and students alike have been quite productive in terms of publishing books, manuscripts and presenting at national conferences.

We are very pleased to have received a new research grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Substance Abuse Policy Research Program. This multi-year, national policy study will explore factors associated with implementing evidence-based substance abuse treatment in federally-funded community based organizations.

Further, we are all proud that Therese Fitzgerald, Ph.D., M.S.W., former Associate Director of our Center who completed her doctorate here last spring, recently became the first social worker to take on the role of Health Policy Research Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society.

This Center joins my extensive addictions research and evaluation experience with that of my colleagues, Dr. Maryann Amodeo and Dr. Melvin Delgado, who are engaged in a range of community prevention and intervention activities. Our joint goal has been to improve approaches to addictions research, evaluation, training, and programming. Unifying our activities in this way allows us to expand our collaborations with community agencies, governmental programs, and researchers from multiple disciplines to achieve the Center’s mission:

To aid society in reducing addictive disorders by providing more effective, knowledge-based, and equitable addiction treatment through quality research, evaluation, program development, and training.

Sincerely,

Lena M. Lundgren, Ph.D.