Welcome

The Center for Interventions, Treatment and Addictions Research (CITAR) is administratively housed within Boonshoft School of Medicine's Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. It represents the focal point for academic research on substance use and related services (treatment, harm reduction, etc.).

CITAR was founded by a member of the Wright State University School of Medicine faculty, the late Harvey A. Siegal, Ph.D., in 1980. Dr. Siegal continued as director until his death in December 2004. 

In addition, the center provides consultation and program evaluation services.

Core Faculty

Sydney Meredith Silverstein, Ph.D.

Department:

Population and Public Health Sci

Title:

Research Assistant Professor, PPHS Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry

Address:

2555 University Blvd 200, Dayton, OH 45435-0001

Phone:

937-775-1300

Email:

sydney.silverstein@wright.edu

Associated Faculty

Raminta Daniulaityte, PhD

Department:

Population and Public Health Sciences

Title:

Clinical Professor, Population & Public Health

Address:

Arizona State University, College Of Health Solutions, 425 N 5th St Room 121, Phoenix, AZ 85004-2157

Email:

raminta.daniulaityte@wright.edu

Tim Crawford, Ph.D., MPH

Department:

Population and Public Health Sci

Title:

Assistant Professor, Population & Public Health Sciences Assistant Professor, Family Medicine

Address:

Res Park-Tech Center IV Ste 200, 3123 Research Blvd, Dayton, OH 45420-4035

Phone:

937-775-1430

Email:

timothy.crawford@wright.edu

Danielle Gainer, M.D.

Department:

Psychiatry

Title:

Associate Professor, Psychiatry

Address:

2555 University Blvd, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Dayton, OH 45435-0001

Phone:

937-775-7792

Email:

danielle.gainer@wright.edu

Ramzi W. Nahhas, PhD

Department:

Population and Public Health Sci

Title:

Professor, Population & Public Health; Professor, Psychiatry

Address:

Res Park-Tech Center IV 200, 3123 Research Blvd, Dayton, OH 45420-4035

Email:

ramzi.nahhas@wright.edu

Active Projects

The following projects and programs currently operate within CITAR:

• A Natural History Study of Diverted Buprenorphine Use
• Crystal in the Gem City: Characterizing a Methamphetamine Outbreak in the Area of a High Prevalence of Illicit Fentanyl Use
• Ecologies of Overdose-Related Risk
• Exploring Stigma in the Overdose-Justice Nexus: A Mixed-Methods Study of Good Samaritan Laws in Two Overdose Epicenters

Completed Projects

• Characterizing Fentanyl Outbreaks
• eDark Trends
• Opioid Use Trajectories and HIV Risk
• Social Web Data on Buprenorphine Abuse
• All Completed Pojects

CITAR in the News

Montgomery County overdose deaths dip: ‘People feel like they can get more support’

Yost claim that stimulus checks led to overdose deaths triggers debate

Substance of concern

Wright State researcher Raminta Daniulaityte leads research effort on methamphetamine use

October 17, 2019

Researchers in the Department of Population and Public Health Science are studying methamphetamine use of people who have opiate-use disorders.

Wright State medical school professor named to Ohio attorney general’s opioid committee

October 7, 2019

Robert Carlson joins a state committee that will look for the circumstantial, environmental, social, behavioral and psychological factors that incline some people to substance use disorder.

Wright State research team finds increase in deaths from fentanyl and fentanyl analogs

August 31, 2017

Evidence from the study indicates the increasing and substantial role of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and the declining presence of heroin and pharmaceutical opioids in overdose fatalities.