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It will also mean an increase in headcount as we recruit more developers and support staff to promote product development and our involvement in the ATTC."

ATTCs have had a long standing relationship with NIATx and have been involved in using the NIATx model to advance change.

Traci Rieckmann receives support through awards from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (ATTC award number) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R33 DA035640).

Other investigators have suggested conceptual models (Simpson 2002) and strategies for facilitating the transfer of new treatment technologies (ATTC Network 2004; Brown 2003), which have resulted in significant insights:

About 16 to 20 percent of this group is affected by substance dependence or mental illness or both, a proportion well in excess of what is seen in the rest of the country, says Nancy Roget, principal investigator with the National Frontier and Rural Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC).

The authors would like to thank the Gulf Coast, Great Lakes, Northwest Frontier, and South Coast Addiction Technology Training Centers (ATTCs) for their assistance with recruitment and training.

The BvS 10 is in competition with Singapore Technologies Kinetics' Bronco All-Terrain Tracked Carrier (ATTC) for a French Army contract for 191 vehicles, plus options, which is scheduled to be decided in mid-2007.

On LinkedIn, for example, I have joined a number of useful "groups," such as Addiction Professionals, Friends of SAMHSA, and the ATTC Network, enabling me to follow threaded discussions, post questions and find resources.

Many of our board members also have held leadership positions in organizations such as NAADAC, the International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium (ICRC), and the ATTCs.

The first thought is usually by training; however, The Change Book from the Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) National Office emphasizes that "technology transfer's scope is much broader than just training.

Page, Bailey, Barker, and Clawson found that while NAADAC and IC&RC saw the importance of academic preparation for the professional counselor, they did not require the completion of any academic program for the certification process." In 1993, the federal Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) established the system of regional Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTCs).

In 2003, the Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England was one of 14 ATTCs nationwide to begin working with the National Institute on Drug Abuse to assist in disseminating research emanating from NIDA's Clinical Trials Network (for more information, go to www.nida.nih.gov/CTN/index.htm).