Compiled by ATTC/NIATx staff and directors
This month marks a decade of partnership and collaboration between the ATTC Network and NIATx on our shared blog. In that time, we’ve published more than 300 articles, including multiple series, from the pearls of wisdom we’ve learned over the years, to all the many new places you can implement the NIATx process.
Together we have compiled a list of 10 of our favorite posts from the last 10 years.
November 2022: Embracing Change: Providing Program Specific Harm Reduction Technical Assistance
The goal of the Embracing Change series was to showcase the ways each of the regional and population-specific ATTCs had found to survive, adapt, and thrive during COVID-19.
June 2021: The Treatment Challenge in Jail Settings: Detox and Withdrawal or Continuing Medication?
The ATTC/NIATx blog is a place where we sometimes invite our friends and collaborators to share their thoughts on issues affecting our industry, like this guest editorial from the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN).
July 2020: Addressing the Syndemic of Addiction, COVID-19, and Structural Racism by Strengthening the Workforce
Our Tech Transfer In Action series focused on ways the ATTC Network delivers to the communities we serve. This article looks at the syndemic approach deployed by the New England ATTC to address addiction, COVID-19, and structural racism.
May 2019: Great Lakes ATTC: Process Improvement Focus Helps Organizations Implement Evidence-Based Practices
“A fundamental tool in the Great Lakes ATTC’s effort to accelerate EPB implementation is the NIATx model, developed in 2003 as a demonstration project supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and SAMHSA… Since then, more than 50 peer-reviewed articles have documented the use of the NIATx model in adopting evidence-based practices in addiction treatment, mental health, HIV treatment, child welfare, criminal justice, and other human services settings.”
December 2018: Building Rural and Technology Literacy Skills
The Mountain Plains ATTC provides an update on its efforts to strengthen the behavioral health workforce in rural communities.
February 2017: PPW Project Echo: Building capacity to provide care for pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders
The ATTC Network often gets TA requests for materials and resources targeted to specific populations, like this effort to utilize Project ECHO to provide care for pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders.
June 2016: Are we leveraging digital technology in addiction treatment?
Then-NIATx director David H. Gustafson provides an update on their A-CHESS app, a smartphone app for recovery support.
November 2015: A Seminal Study Asks: Should our paradigm for treatment be expanded? Are we doing enough?
Another guest post, this time from a quartet of researchers who published “An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Secular, Spiritual, and Religious Pathways of Long-Term Addiction Recovery” in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly. The study explores 64 shared themes over three distinct stages of recovery.
October 2014: Integrating SUD Services with Health Care: the ATTC Network's Role
Here’s a post about the ATTC Network’s role in integrating behavioral and physical health care services.
August 2013: Better Together: Welcome to the ATTC/NIATx Service Improvement Blog!
The post that started it all!