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Dr. Lena Lundgren, Director at The Center for Addictions Research and Services, will be one of the lead speakers at the Harvard Medical School “Treating the Addictions” conference, March 9 – 10, 2012 in Cambridge, MA.  Her contribution will focus on addiction treatment, specifically looking at who gets treatment, who does not and why these differences exist.

More information on the conference can be found at:  http://cme.med.harvard.edu/cmeups/pdf/00322398.pdf

Dr. Lena Lundgren, Director of The Center for Addictions Research and Services, is a consultant and advisory board member on a multi-year research project (2012-214) funded by the Finnish National Institute of Health (Principal Investigator: Kerstin Stenius)  on the consequences of a national integration of the Finnish mental health and addiction treatment policy and services systems. In this role, Dr. Lundgren will provide a lecture to the Finnish N.I.H. and the public on U.S. experiences with integration of addiction and mental health treatment policy and services systems, as well as advise the principal investgator on research design and results dissemination.

The Center for Addictions Research and Services ongoing national study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Substance Abuse Policy Research Program to identify barriers to implementation of evidence-based practices in addiction treatment organizations continues to generate additional publications and presentations. For additional information, please see our Publications and Resources.

Recent findings from Center Director Dr. Lena Lundgren and colleagues related to their research on community-based addiction treatment and the implementation of evidence-based practices have been published in a special section of Evaluation and Program Planning.  This issue is co-edited by Dr. Lena Lundgren and Traci Rieckmann, with editorial assistance from Ivy Krull and Steve Garte-Wolf.

Lundgren, L., Krull, I., Zerden, L., McCarty, D. (In Press) Community-based addiction treatment staff attitudes about the usefulness of science-based addiction treatment and CBO organizational linkages to research institutions. Evaluation and Program Planning.

Lundgren, L., & Rieckmann, T. (In Press). Research on implementing evidence-based addiction treatment  practices in community based organizations: Policy and program implications. Evaluation and  Program Planning. Editorial.

Amodeo, M., Lundgren, L., Cohen, A., Rose, D., Chassler, D., Beltrame, C., & D’Ippolito, M. (In Press). Barriers to implementing evidence-based practices in addiction treatment programs: Comparing staff reports on Motivational Interviewing, Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach, Assertive Community Treatment, and Cognitive-behavioral Therapy. Evaluation and Program Planning.

The full special issue can be found at: EPP Special Section

Dr. Lena Lundgren was recently invited to speak as part of the World Health Organization Experts group meeting on research, policy and intervention priorities to address HIV transmission associated to or resulting from drug use in the Region of the Americas.

Dr. Lundgren discussed the importance of increasing organizational capacity of Community Based addiction treatment and HIV outreach organizations in order to improve the implementation of community HIV prevention services.

For additional information on Dr. Lundgren’s presentations, please visit our conference listing.

Casa Esperanza, Inc. has recognized Boston University’s Center for Addictions Research and Services for their invaluable contributions to the field of addictions treatment through pioneering research, evaluation, program development, and training; and their advocacy for close collaboration between researchers and practitioners to further the implementation of evidence-based treatment in community based programs.

The Hope in Action 2010 Community Leadership award was accepted on behalf of BU-CARS by Dr. Lena Lundgren, Director of the Center and Director of Research for Boston University’s School of Social Work.

More information can be found at:  http://www.casaesperanza.org/events/_pdfs/HIA%202010%20Event%20Details.pdf

Dr. Lundgren has been awarded a two-year Guest Researcher Fellowship at the Swedish National Institute for Social/ Labor Market Research in collaboration with Umea and Stockholm universities.

Dr. Maryann Amodeo, CARS Co-Director, will be presenting Center research findings at the annual Addiction Health Services Research Conference in October, 2010.  In addition, student Nika Ancukiewicz will be participating in the poster presentations.

For more information on the conference, please visit:

http://www.cecentral.com/live/2283

Dr. Lundgren will be teaching at the Summer Institute, University of Amsterdam, summer of 2010. The focus of her class is on co-morbid disorders.

For additional information, please visit:  http://www.uva.nl/start.cfm/la=en

Dr. Lena Lundgren, Director of The Center for Addictions Research and Services, will be presenting at the Addictions 2010 conference in Washington, D.C. in October, 2010.  Topics include:

• Implementation of evidence-based addiction treatment by community-based organizations: Is clinical training likely to help use of evidence-based treatment? Results from a national study.
• Modifications of evidence-based practices in community-based addiction treatment organizations: A qualitative research study.
• Attitudes toward evidence-based behavioural and pharmacological treatments among community-based addiction treatment programs targeting vulnerable patient groups .

Additional information can be found at:  http://www.addictions-conference.elsevier.com/programme.asp