CTN Webinar: Site Management Overview.

CTN Webinar: Site Management Overview. – This 90-minute webinar, produced by the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Clinical Coordinating Center for CTN members and the public, aims to provide research staff in clinical trials with a greater understanding of network utilization for workload facilitation, various roles and responsibilities in the CTN, and how those roles relate to site management. Topic focused on include communication, goals of the CTN, data audits, and the key components to developing a site management plan. Presented by Elizabeth Buttrey (NIDA Clinical Coordinating Center), Jack Chally (NIDA Clinical Coordinating Center), Carol Cushing (NIDA Center for the Clinical Trials Network), Debbie Drosdick (Data and Statistics Center), Anthony S. Floyd, PhD (University of Washington, PN Node), Katharina Wiest, PhD (CODA, Inc., WS Node). For more resources related to this webinar, as well as other webinars in this series, visit: ctndisseminationlibrary.org

Illegal drug use on the rise in Africa

Filed under: drug abuse treatment statistics

An international conference on drug abuse in Kampala is hoping it can help reverse this trend. According to UN statistics 37,000 people in Africa die annually from diseases associated with the consumption of illegal drugs. The UN estimates there are 28 …
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