Women

This list contains some of the current research activities that are happening in New York State. Should you wish further information on the research project you should contact the program director. If you would like to include your research on this list contact ASAP.

Program Director	Type of Grant / Project Description
Nabila El-Bassel Columbia Univ. New York Morningside 1210 Amsterdam Ave MC 2205 New York, NY 10027	NIDA Project Partner Abuse - Minority Women on Methadone No further information is available at this time. Date Started: 15-May-97 Date Ends: 30-Apr-00
Hisayo Morishima Columbia University Health Sciences OGC New York, NY 10032	NIDA Project Perinatal Polydrug Abuse - Cocaine & Drug Interactions The long-term principal goal of our project has been to examine whether species-, age-, and gender-, age-, and pregnancy related differences exist in the disposition and toxicity of cocaine and alcohol and their metabolites. Special emphasis has been paid to how pregnant polydrug abusers respond to these substances, information which will provide a better understanding of their medical management as well as the care of their developing fetuses. In the next grant period we propose to investigate the pharmacological implication of the management of acute, life threatening situations in cocaine abusing pregnant women and their unborn children who are about with anesthesia, and frequently complicate labor on the cocaine-addicted parturients and their fetuses has been largely ignored. Date Started: 1-Jul-90 Date Ends: 31-Mar-11
Jonathan Morgenstern Mount Sinai School of Medicine of CUNY City University of New York New York, NY 10029	NIDA Project Restructuring Services for Drug Abusing TANF Women The primary goal of this study is to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness and costs of two contrasting approaches to organizing and structuring substance abuse treatment for women entering welfare-to-work programs. One approach will deliver standard care. The alternative approach will deliver care based on an innovative, public health model Date Started: 20-Jun-99 Date Ends: 31-May-94
Brandy Britton National Development & Research Institutes, Inc. New York, NY 10048	NIDA Project Impact of Violence on Women's Drug Use & AIDS Risk The proposed research will examine the link between interpersonal violence and women’s drug use and HIV risk and will build upon a recently completed pilot project of 260 women in the Baltimore area. The proposed research is longitudinal in nature. Six hundred black and white women between the ages of 14 and 44 from the Baltimore area will be interviewed annually during the three and a half year study period. Three subsamples of women will be included in the study: an addict sample of 200 women who have experienced at least one of the three types of interpersonal violence; and a stratified area probability sample of 200 women from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. Interviews will be both quantitative and qualitative in nature. Date Started: 15-Sep-97 Date Ends: 31-Dec-00

Gregory Falkin National Development & Research Institutes, Inc. New York, NY 10048	NIDA Project Drug Treatment for Women in the Criminal Justice System No further information is available at this time. Date Started: 1-Sep-94 Date Ends: 30-Jun-00
Maureen Miller National Development & Research Institutes, Inc. New York, NY 10048	NIDA Project Networks, Resources & Risk Among Women Drug Users No further information is available at this time. Date Started: 15-Dec-99 Date Ends: 31-May-01
Stephanie Tortu National Development & Research Institutes, Inc. New York, NY 10048	NIDA Project Women Drug Users, AIDS, and Social Context In the US, the number of women drug users diagnosed with AIDS continues to increase, thus emphasizing the need for prevention efforts tailored more specifically to their needs. Using a cross-sectional design in this 3 year project, a sample of 720 women (primarily African-American ad Puerto Rican) will be recruited from the streets of East Harlem. Multivariate statistical techniques will be used to determine the effect of social context, individual attributes, and their interaction on HIV risk behaviors. Analyses will also determine the situational factors that are most and least prevalent in “risk” and “no risk” sex and injection events, and determine which situational factors are significantly associated with HIV risk. Informed by information gained in this study, an advisory group will be convened to develop recommendations for risk reduction strategies for women drug users. Date Started: 1-Mar-97 Date Ends: 30-Jun-00
Stephanie Tortu National Development & Research Institutes, Inc. New York, NY 10048	NIDA Project Women Drug Users, Their Male Partners and HIV Risk No further information at this time. Date Started: 15-Dec-99 Date Ends: 30-Nov-03

Suzette Evans
New York State Psychiatric Institute
1051 Riverside Dr.
New York, NY 10032

NIDA Project Vulnerability to Anxiolytic Abuse in Women
The proposed studies will empirically identify vulnerable subpopulations of females who are at risk to abuse anxiolytics. The results should increase our understanding of the relevant variables contributing to this increased vulnerability. In addition to differentiating among various factors which may contribute to the likelihood that a woman will abuse anxiolytics, these studies will provide important information for the development of appropriate interventions and/or treatments for these vulnerable individuals.
Date Started: 15-Mar-95 Date Ends: 29-Feb-00

Joseph J. Cocozza
Policy Research Associates, Inc.
262 Delaware Ave.
Delmar, NY 12054

CSAT Violence Against Women Grant
This Coordinating Center is a consortium under the oversight of Policy Research Associates, Inc. that includes The Better Homes Fund, Community Connections, the University of North Carolina at Chapel hill, and a panel of consultants with personal and professional knowledge on the issues of women, children, violence, ADM disorders, and trauma. This consortium will operate with three integrated teams: technical assistance team, evaluation team, and knowledge exchange application team, and will be the coordination of the sites’ services and systems development, and evaluation design; and in Phase II, major emphasis will be on the implementation of the process and outcome evaluations.

Debbie Pantin
Project Return Foundation, Inc.
10 Astor Place
New York, NY 10003-6935

CSAT Violence Against Women Grant
This is a non-profit, multi-services agency serving primarily African-American and Latino communities. The agency will collaborate with Hunter school of Social Work to develop an integrated system for the target population, and take the lead in a partnership with key social service agencies throughout New York City to develop a project advisory committee to critically analyze current service systems. Through this three tier approach to systems integration a comprehensive assessment and consumer driven model will be implemented through various portals within the agency and its collaborators.

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and
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
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