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Blending Tools

Several Blending Initiative products are already available:

S.M.A.R.T. Treatment Planning: Utilizing the Addiction Severity Index (ASI): Making Required Data Collection Useful, is a curriculum for a 6-hour classroom training program to help treatment providers make the most of this widely used screening instrument.
Another curriculum is Buprenorphine Treatment: A Training for Multidisciplinary Addiction Professionals, the basis of a 6-hour classroom training program that provides an overview of buprenorphine treatment.
A third curriculum, Short-Term Opioid Withdrawal Using Buprenorphine: Findings and Strategies from a NIDA Clinical Trials Network Study, provides 4 hours of classroom training on using buprenorphine with opioid-dependent patients.

Several other products under development include Motivational Interviewing Assessment: Supervisory Tools for Enhancing Proficiency and Promoting Awareness of Motivational Incentives.

For a complete list of Blending Initiative products, visit the National Addiction Technology Transfer Center online at www.nattc.org/aboutUs/blendingInitiativeNew.html, email no@nattc.org, or call 1 (816) 235-6888. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) also features the Blending Initiative on the Institute’s Web site at www.nida.nih.gov/blending.