The University of Michigan Substance Abuse Section

Section Resources

Core Funding Resources

The Section's primary funding is external, and mainly NIH grant supported. Total sponsored research direct cost portfolio for the 2007-2008 year involved approximately 3.5 million dollars, out of a total Sectional research/teaching operating budget of approximately 4.1 million dollars. The Department continues to provide core funding support for the operational and logistic structure of the Section.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE SECTION
SPONSORED RESEARCH ANNUAL DIRECT COSTS OVER TIME (2006-2008)

	As of 6/30/06	As of 6/30/07	As of 3/31/08
	(2005-06)	(2006-07)	(2007-08)
NIH Training Grants	$543,250	$493,533	$493,828
NIH K's	$287,266	$290,349	$293,524
Other/ Foundations	$34,091	$16,631	$32,621
Internal Funding	$40,000	$22,500	$7,500
Federal Awards	$2,528,969	$2,514,569	$2,674,500
TOTAL	$3,433,576	$3,337,582	$3,501,973	$4,253,655	$4,985,428

Clinical Support Structure and Resources

University of Michigan Addiction Treatment Services (UMATS), the clinical branch of the Section, provides clinical care, professional training, and conducts research in the area of substance abuse. It operates within the Department of Psychiatry's Ambulatory Care program. Its Executive Director is Kirk J. Brower, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Director for Clinical Activities and Medical Education in the Division. Iyad Alkhouri, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, serves as the Medical Director of UMATS and Stephen Strobbe, MS, CNS-BC, CARN. The main facility for UMATS is located at the University of Michigan Depression Center in the Rachel Upjohn Building. UMATS facilities provide a balance of treatment modalities, levels of care, and case mix. Treatment services include Intake and Assessment, a Day Treatment Program for adults (including outpatient detoxification services), an Evening Intensive Outpatient Program for adults, and specialized programming for adolescents who constitute about 20 percent of patient volume. Regular outpatient services, including individual, group, and family therapies are available for both adolescents and adults.

In addition to these services, while not under the Section's administrative umbrella, faculty at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center have close ties to Section operations. They participate equally in the training of psychiatry residents in substance abuse, provide substance abuse clinical services to VA patients, serve as one of the Section's research resources for recruitment of patients with a substance abuse diagnosis, and their staff contribute to the ongoing educational activities of the Section and the Department.

Space

The Center occupies 5,220 square feet of research space in the Department of Psychiatry's new Rachel Upjohn Depression and Ambulatory Care Center. The Rachel Upjohn Center's focus is to address unmet research and public policy needs for the study of the depressive illnesses, bipolar disorder, and related co-occuring syndromes, especially substance use disorders that lead the nation in economic costs and disability ratings. RUB space ads over 27,000 net square feet (over 54,000 BGSF) of space to department operations, and provides key new laboratories for current PHS-funded investigators and new recruitments. The space includes labs, clinical investigation facilities and offices, and educational facilities.

The research offices are a ten-minute drive to the U-M Medical Center. UMARC has office, meeting, library, archival, data collection, and computational space. Rachel Upjohn Building also has a number of conference rooms where scientific staff meetings take place as well as interview/data collection offices, and the building is the location of many of the Center's developmental projects. A sophisticated computer system allows efficient communication and data transfer to other investigators not located at this facility.

The Section also maintains an animal laboratory and offices in Kresge I on the medical campus and a third site of research activity at the UM-MSU Family Study site in East Lansing. The East Lansing site involves office space in the Hannah Technology and Research Center, an office facility adjacent to the Michigan State University campus, and located approximately 65 miles from the Traverwood III site.

In addition to these primary sites, the Section has two satellite operations. One is in East Lansing in the Hannah Technology and Research Center, an office facility adjacent to the MSU campus, and approximately 60 miles from RUB. This specially designed facility containing 10 offices and 5 carrels, houses the Michigan Longitudinal Study data collection/assessment activity and is the base for 25 full and part time research staff.

The second satellite is the Flint-Northbank site. This also occupies 3600 square feet of office space, in the Northbank Center, an office facility near the UM-Flint Health Science campus, and approximately 65 miles from the Ann Arbor location. The site houses 7 offices for four brief screening and intervention projects. Recruitment, Assessment and Follow-up staff carry out these activities at the site.