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James Swartz

Professor

Jane Addams College of Social Work

Contact

Office Phone:

312-996-8560

About

Areas of Expertise

  • Adults
  • Community-based Solutions
  • Criminal Justice
  • Epidemiology
  • Heroin
  • Injection Drug Use
  • Medication-assisted Treatment (MAT)
  • Naloxone

Research Currently in Progress

1.
Category: Community-based Health Promotion

Source of Funding: SAMHSA

The Illinois Prevent Prescription Drug Overdose project is a 5-year evaluation of community-based efforts to increase training and distribution of naloxone in 6 Illinois counties with high rates of opioid overdoses and related fatalities. My role is as project evaluator.

 

2.
Category: Research

Source of Funding: Arnold Foundation

Project STAMINA is an implementation and evaluation study of an effort to initiate buprenorphine treatment in a community-based setting for current opioid users. The project is being conducted in one of COIP's community-based field stations.