The National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) began in 2000 with the
goal of “improv [ing] the quality of drug abuse treatment throughout the country using …

The National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) has faced many
challenges over its first eleven years. This review explores some of these challenges and …

Illicit drug users sustain the epidemics of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), hepatitis C (HCV), and sexually transmitted infections …

The National Institute on Drug Abuse established the National Drug Abuse Treatment
Clinical Trials Network (CTN) in 1999 to improve the quality of addiction treatment using …

Based on recommendations from a US Institute of Medicine report, the National Institute on
Drug Abuse established the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) in …

Background: Recruitment and retention in randomized clinical trials are difficult in general
and particularly so in trials of substance abuse treatments. Understanding trial design …

Of the 13 principles of drug addiction treatment disseminated by the National Institute on
Drug Abuse (NIDA), 7 were meta-analyzed as part of the Evidence-based Principles of …

The goals of the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network (CTN) are to test
promising drug abuse treatment models in multisite clinical trials and to support the adoption …

The most important fact established by the scores of outcome studies conducted in the past
15 years is that drug abuse treatment works (NIDA 1982; Bray et al. 1982; Craddock et al …

1. Background National evaluations of drug treatment outcomes and processes over the
past 30 years have been an important source of ''real-world''evidence for the effectiveness of …