Mission Statement

The Center for Interventions, Treatment and Addictions Research (CITAR), formerly the Division of Substance Abuse Intervention Programs (SAIP), is administratively housed within Boonshoft School of Medicine's Department of Community Health. It represents the focal point for substance abuse related services, academic research, and services research. Although the larger purpose of the Center is to advance the production, dissemination and utilization of scientific knowledge and professional technology regarding the epidemiology, consequences, prevention and treatment of substance abuse, its goals are directed at the understanding of substance abuse phenomena and their intervention and management in smaller and mid-sized cities and their surrounding suburban and rural communities. This is important since very much of what is known about drug abuse problems relates to data obtained from the nation's major metropolitan — oftentimes coastal — areas.

CITAR was founded by a member of the Wright State University School of Medicine faculty, the late Harvey A. Siegal, Ph.D., in 1980. Dr. Siegal continued as director until his death in December 2004. Robert G. Carlson, Ph.D., professor of community health and a member of the CITAR staff since 1989, was appointed director in May 2005.

The following projects and programs currently operate within CITAR: Weekend Intervention Program (WIP); Substance Abuse Resources & Disability Issues (SARDI) and Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Drugs and Disability (RRTC); Crack and Health Service Use — A Natural History; Dayton Area Drug Survey (DADS); Ohio Substance Abuse Monitoring Network (OSAM); MDMA/Club Drug Use and STD/HIV Sex Risk Behavior in Ohio; Crack Cocaine and Health Service Use in Rural Ohio; Reducing Barriers to Drug Abuse Treatment Services; Rural Stimulant Use and Mental Health: Services and Outcomes and the State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup. In addition, the Center for Interventions, Treatment and Addictions Research provides an array of program evaluation services.

These reprints of articles about CITAR projects from Vital Signs, the School of Medicine magazine, require Adobe Reader, a free download.

• Behavioral Interventions That Work (Fall 2005)
• The "Perfect Storm": Drug Abuse Converges in the Heartland (Spring 2003)
• Weekend Intervention Program — A Ticket for the Road to Recovery (Fall 2000)
• Community Oriented Research: A Model to Build Upon (Spring 1998)
• AIDS Prevention Research: Outreach Workers Advance Research Efforts (Fall 1997)
• CITAR: Applied Research Makes Community Impact (Winter 1996)

Free reprints of articles authored by CITAR staff are available by contacting the respective projects.

Links to Related Web Sites

• American Society of Addiction Medicine
  
• Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse
• Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
• Center for Substance Abuse Research
• College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD)
• Forensic Drug Abuse Advisor
  
• Monitoring the Future — Drug Epidemiology
• National Center for on Addiction and Substance Abuse
  
• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS)
• Prevention Research Center
• Project CORK
• SafetyLit Injury Prevention Literature Update
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• Web of Addictions
  
  
• About Dayton & the Miami Valley
• Dayton Area Weather

For more information, contact:
Center for Interventions, Treatment and Addictions Research
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
Dayton, OH 45435
Phone: (866) 217-1205 (toll free) or (937) 775-2850
Fax: (937) 775-2214