Dr. Nora Volkow is the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
NIDA recently sponsored a conference on an innovative concept called "Blending" - bringing laboratory researchers together with community-based counselors and physicians who work with drug addicts.
Q: What was the problem that "Blending" is designed to solve?
A: The problem that blending sought to address was actually a problem that is still prevalent in research on medicine. You can find these scientific advances and they are actually shown to have effectiveness or benefit to treating a condition, but they are not necessarily translated into practice.
We've (created) a forum to bring together scientists and those individuals who are out there in the trenches doing the day in and day out (treatment), to increase the likelihood that there is communication on both sides.
NIDA recently sponsored a conference on an innovative concept called "Blending" - bringing laboratory researchers together with community-based counselors and physicians who work with drug addicts.
Q: What was the problem that "Blending" is designed to solve?
A: The problem that blending sought to address was actually a problem that is still prevalent in research on medicine. You can find these scientific advances and they are actually shown to have effectiveness or benefit to treating a condition, but they are not necessarily translated into practice.
We've (created) a forum to bring together scientists and those individuals who are out there in the trenches doing the day in and day out (treatment), to increase the likelihood that there is communication on both sides.
