Online Tools
The NIDA International Program online tools offer robust communications, research collaboration, and training opportunities. These cost-effective online tools help the international drug abuse research community identify potential research partners, build professional relationships with distant colleagues, and enhance their professional development skills in drug abuse and addiction research.
Research Tools
These tools will help drug abuse professionals improve their understanding of important concepts and strengthen their research skills. The guide was designed by experts and tested by international researchers.
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Methadone Maintenance Research Web Guide and Tutorial
Presents U.S. research outcomes about methadone maintenance treatment, reviews best practices in treatment program design and implementation, and disseminates evidence-based treatment protocols. -
Drugs and Alcohol: Open Access Sources
Created by Virginia Commonwealth University, this guide facilitates free, immediate access to scholarly peer-reviewed publications through a variety of global Open Access initiatives. The guide also includes Google Custom Search Engines, as well as tips and tutorials that focus on information literacy skills to help users locate and evaluate research evidence. -
PhenX Toolkit
NIDA encourages researchers conducting human-subjects research to use the standard measures developed for this toolkit, especially the 43 measures in the PhenX Substance Abuse and Addiction Project. The toolkit describes each measure along with the standard protocols and requirements for data collection, such as training, personnel, equipment, or licensing fees. -
e-Source
The 20 chapters include interactive exercises on designing research projects; selecting research methods to describe how or why something happens, or to confirm the effectiveness of an intervention; and emerging research challenges in behavioral and social sciences research.
Other Online Resources
These Web links introduce the international drug abuse research community to other organizations whose missions support public health and scientific inquiry in the United States and abroad.
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NIH Resources
The world’s largest biomedical research institution, the National Institutes of Health also supports many innovative outreach and education programs that foster scientific exploration and disseminate health information. -
Sites of Interest
Links to sites of interest to the international drug abuse research community.
Collaboration Tools
These cost-effective online tools help the international drug abuse research community identify potential research partners, build professional relationships with distant colleagues, and exchange scientific information securely.
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Find colleagues, share information, and join discussions about issues in the international drug abuse research community.
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NIDA International Virtual Collaboratory
Supports live audio/video virtual meetings, discussion forums, and document-editing and storage tools. Find potential research partners with the Collaboration Matching Service. Registration approval is required. -
NIDA International Drug Abuse Research Abstract Database
Search database of research abstracts on drug abuse and addiction presented at NIDA International Program meetings. -
NIDA International Fellows Worldwide Map
Locate fellows from around the world and link to the Pub Med index of their published journal articles.
Publishing Tools
These online tools will help drug abuse researchers improve their scientific writing to ensure that research results are published in the appropriate peer-reviewed journals and incorporated in successful funding applications.
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Online Writing Mentor Program
This International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE) program provides individual, online mentoring to help drug abuse researchers from low- and middle-income countries publish their completed research. ISAJE mentors typically have strong national or international reputations in their areas of expertise. -
Publishing Addiction Research Internationally (PARINT)
Provides tutorials, resources, guidance, and support for authors and addiction scientists interested in serving as peer reviewers of research into drug dependence and its relationship to other addictions, such as gambling. Provides one-to-one support for authors from developing countries and includes a database of 82 peer-reviewed addiction journals in 18 languages. -
The Research Assistant
In addition to a grant-writing tutorial, this site can help behavioral researchers collect data, assemble a research proposal team, choose a statistical method, or select a journal for publishing an article.
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Important Dates
NIDA International Forum
June 14–17, 2013
Online Registration Deadline:
May 6, 2013
FELLOWSHIPS
IAS/NIDA Fellowships
Application Deadline:
February 10, 2013
NIDA International Program Fellowships
Application Deadline:
April 1, 2013
Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars
Application Deadlines: Vary
GRANTS
Brain Disorders in the Developing World: Research Across the Lifespan
(Non-AIDS)
R01 PAR-11-030and R21 PAR-11-031
Application deadline:
February 14, 2013
MEETINGS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
February 14–18, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
International Drug Abuse Research Society (IDARS)
April 15–19, 2013
Mexico City, Mexico
2013 International Conference on Global Health: Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse and HIV
April 17–19, 2013
Taipei, Taiwan
Yih-Ing Hser, Ph.D.