LRADAC Programs
Clinical Trials Network
LRADAC has joined the National Institute on Drug Abuse's National Clinical Trials Network. LRADAC recently implemented its first clinical trial in the area of HIV Prevention.
The National Clinical Trials Network was established by NIDA to improve services to individuals battling alcohol and other drug addiction. It takes about seventeen years from the time an intervention is proven effective in a research setting until it is used in the field in clinical practice. NIDA hopes to change that and to get intervention and treatment practices into the hands of counselors more quickly by involving them in the research itself.
The goal of LRADAC's clinical trial is to decrease the risk of getting HIV. The procedure will change the likelihood that individuals will be at risk for HIV by helping them to change high-risk behaviors and attitudes.
Four of LRADAC's staff members have been nationally trained through the Clinical Trials Network to provide the program. Two male and two female counselors will conduct gender-specific, manual interventions to test the effectiveness of a five-session HIV treatment program. Eighty clients, forty men and forty women, will take part in the study.
The other research sites in South Carolina are in Summerville, Charleston, Pickens and Morris Village in Columbia.
Results of the study will be posted to LRADAC's website as they become available.
