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 substance abuse related services, academic research, and services research. Although the larger purpose of the Center is to advance the production, dissemination and utilization of scientific knowledge and professional technology regarding the epidemiology, consequences, prevention and treatment of substance abuse, its goals are directed at the understanding of substance abuse phenomena and their intervention and management in smaller and mid-sized cities and their surrounding suburban and rural communities.

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. Robert G. Carlson, Ph.D., professor of community health and a member of the CITAR staff since 1989, was appointed director in May 2005.

The following projects and programs currently operate within CITAR:

• A Natural History Study of Diverted Buprenorphine Use
• Characterizing Fentanyl Outbreaks
• eDarkTrends
• eDrugTrends

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

Vital Signs articles featuring CITAR

These are articles about CITAR projects from Vital Signs, the School of Medicine magazine, and news releases.

• The Needle and the Damage Done (Fall 2014)
• Researchers at Wright State University use social web forum data to understand nonmedical use of painkillers (May 2013)
• Dayton Area Drug Survey finds decrease in many types of drug use (September 2012)
• Behavioral Interventions That Work (Fall 2005) (PDF)
• The "Perfect Storm": Drug Abuse Converges in the Heartland (Spring 2003) (PDF)
• Weekend Intervention Program: A Ticket for the Road to Recovery (Fall 2000) (PDF)
• Community Oriented Research: A Model to Build Upon (Spring 1998) (PDF)
• AIDS Prevention Research: Outreach Workers Advance Research Efforts (Fall 1997) (PDF)

Free reprints of articles authored by CITAR staff are available by contacting the respective projects.

Links to Related Websites

• American Society of Addiction Medicine
• Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse
• Brigid's Path
• Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
• Center for Substance Abuse Research
• College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD)
• Families of Addicts (FOA)
• Monitoring the Future - Drug Epidemiology
• National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
• Ohio Department of Health (ODH)
• Prevention Research Center
• Resources for Alcoholics and Problem Drinkers
• SafetyLit Injury Prevention Literature Update
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• University of Utah “Mouse Party”

CITAR in the News

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.

Wright State researcher mentioned in The Atlantic

April 11, 2017

The Atlantic cited the loperamide research of Raminta Daniulaityte, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences.