The 2nd Annual National Conference on Addiction Recovery Science (NCARS) starts tomorrow! See you there! #research #recoveryresearch #NCARS2025 #CHEARR #addiction #recovery #science

Calling all researchers in addiction recovery science - submit to the National Conference on Addiction Recovery Science annual virtual conference - deadline is 5/25/2026. www.recoveryanswers.org/coarsconfere...

As part of our series on The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Support, we’re highlighting key questions to consider prior to and during AI development. Swipe through to explore and thank you to our Lived Experience Advisory Board for creating these tipsheets!

As we wrap up our series on The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Support, we’re highlighting key risks to consider prior to implementation.

📰 Check out the latest CAPES Quarterly Newsletter! Get updates on our latest events, faculty highlights, and innovations in suicide prevention research. 📬 Subscribe: lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/1fDUcne/subscribecapesnewsletter ✨ Read more: umassmed.edu/capes/news

CAPES Faculty, Dr. Martha Zimmermann of UMass Chan Medical School and Dr. Bengisu Tulu of Worcester Polytechnic Institute led a workshop hosted by the Person Centered Design Unit of CAPES. This workshop focused on developing personas to design and testing digital mental health interventions.

As part of Menal Health Awareness month, we are sharing some resources from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and resharing resources cultivated. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #suicideprevention #research #mentalhealth

The call for proposals for the National Conference on Addiction Recovery Science ends in one week! This year’s conference is fully virtual, based on the positive feedback on the format in prior years and the interest in ensuring the conference accessible to a wide audience.

Excited that @recoveryanswers.bsky.social is disseminating this work! Young adults have higher rates of substance use disorder than older ages, but lower rates of recovery. All the more reason for important research and supports for young adults like those in @chearresearch.bsky.social

The call for proposals for the National Conference on Addiction Recovery Science ends in one week! This year’s conference is fully virtual, based on the positive feedback on the format in prior years and the interest in ensuring the conference accessible to a wide audience.

Calling All Graduate Students, Postdocs, and Early Career Faculty Presenting Alcohol Research at the annual American Psychological Association convention in Washington DC #APA #APA2026 #niaaa #research #travelawards #addictionposters2026

📲 How can digital health tools be incorporated into suicide prevention in ways that center transparency, trust, and autonomy? Our latest CAPES tip sheet outlines key “Dos” for researchers & developers. Read more: hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038...

What not to do when using digital tools in suicide prevention care. Our latest CAPES tip sheet outlines key “Don’ts” — from failing to explain a tool to labeling patients as non-compliant for declining it. Transparency and choice matter. Read more: hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038...

Digital suicide prevention tools only work when implemented ethically and transparently. Before introducing any tool, be ready to answer these questions. Read the full guidance: hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038...

Effective suicide prevention is structured, collaborative, and intentional. Join us on March 3, 2026 (12–3 PM EDT) for a virtual workshop on the Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) with Dr. Rachel Davis-Martin (UMass Chan Medical School). Register: web.cvent.com/event/a30470...

Congratulations to CAPES faculty member Dr. Emmanuel Agu on being named a 2026 Boston Business Journal Innovator in Healthcare (Research). His work uses AI and smartphone sensing to help detect and monitor depression and suicide risk. #DigitalHealth #AIinHealthcare #CAPES

CAPES will be sharing insights from our new tip sheet: “The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Support.” Follow along as we highlight key questions, risks, and safeguards for AI in mental health. #SuicidePrevention #AIinHealthcare #CAPES

Recordings now available for “Suicide Prevention Implementation Across Diverse Healthcare Settings Using the ECHO Model”. Watch and learn key insights from a 3-year collaboration between AFSP and AAP. Access the recordings here: www.umassmed.edu/capes/events...

‼️WE ARE STILL HIRING‼️The Center for Suicide Research and Prevention is looking for a Clinical Research Coordinator. If you are interested in research and eager to make an impact, join our team today! 🔗 Learn more @ csrp.mgh.harvard.edu/jobs/ 📋Apply @ bit.ly/CSRPcrc26

Calling All Graduate Students, Postdocs, and Early Career Faculty Presenting Alcohol Research at the annual American Psychological Association convention in Washington DC #APA #APA2026 #niaaa #research #travelawards #addictionposters2026

Congrats to Liz, UConn medical student and CHEARR trainee, on winning the Certificate of Excellence at the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians Scientific Symposium for her research on patient-centered perspectives on treatment success for people who take medications for opioid use disorder 🌟

CHEARR post-doctoral fellow, Bridget, presents her project 'Functional Impairment in Daily Living during Long-Term Remission from Substance Use Disorders' at UConn Health's post-doc research day!

CHEARR and JEAP Investigators are guest editing a special issue of Emerging Adulthood on recovery from substance use disorders. Submit your manuscripts by 3/1/26. Details: https://tinyurl.com/msx3r5rv

📆 Mark your calendars! The JEAP Initiative and the Collaborative Hub for Emerging Adult Recovery Research (CHEARR) are co-sponsoring a free 90-minute interactive virtual forum on February 18th focused on recovery capital. Learn more and register: www.jeapinitiative.org/ea-recovery-...

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Sharon A. Johnson! Learn more about Dr. Johnson: www.wpi.edu/people/facul... #MeetTheFaculty #ImplementationScience #HealthSystemsEngineering #EmergencyMedicine #ClinicalDecisionSupport #CAPES #WPI

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Feifan Liu! Learn more about Dr. Liu: profiles.umassmed.edu/display/1550... #MeetTheFaculty #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #HealthInformatics #ClinicalDecisionSupport #SuicidePrevention #CAPES

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Jung Ae Lee! Learn more about Dr. Lee: profiles.umassmed.edu/display/2726... #MeetTheFaculty #Biostatistics #ImplementationScience #HealthData #ClinicalResearch #CAPES #UMassChan

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Martin Reznek! Learn more about Dr. Reznek: profiles.umassmed.edu/display/130147 #MeetTheFaculty #EmergencyMedicine #MedicalEducation #ImplementationScience #QualityImprovement #ClinicalLeadership #CAPES #UMassChan

📣 1 month away! Join CAPES for a virtual webinar on Suicide Prevention Implementation Across Diverse Healthcare Settings using the ECHO Model, featuring lessons from AFSP and AAP. 🗓 Feb 18 | 2–3 PM ET | Zoom 🔗 Register: arcsapps.umassmed.edu/redcap/surve...

AI chatbots & wellness apps are increasingly used for mental health—but they’re not a substitute for evidence-based care. The American Psychological Association released a new Health Advisory outlining risks, limits & safeguards clinicians and consumers should know. 🔗 www.apa.org/topics/artif...

CAPES Event Alert! Hosted by the DanCE and EDU Units Suicide Prevention Implementation Across Diverse Healthcare Settings Using the ECHO Model: Lessons from the American Foundation on Suicide Prevention and American Academy of Pediatrics Register: arcsapps.umassmed.edu/redcap/surve...

🎥 Recordings from the CAPES Innovation Summit are now available! Organized with support from EDC, the Summit explored how the Zero Suicide Framework advances CAPES technologies and evidence-based suicide care, featuring talks by Dr. Boudreaux, Dr. Angerhofer, Dr. Michael & T’Leah McQuade.

📰 The latest CAPES Quarterly Newsletter is out! Catch up on events, faculty highlights, and innovations in suicide prevention. 📬 Subscribe: lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/1fDUcne/s... ✨ Read more: umassmed.edu/capes/news/ #CAPES #SuicidePrevention #ResearchInnovation

🧠 CAPES Director Dr. Edwin Boudreaux discusses suicide risk among older men in Science for Living. “We have effective treatments and prevention strategies… There’s hope.” 📰 Read: bit.ly/3YOjhZb 📬 More CAPES news: umassmed.edu/capes/news/ #CAPES #SuicidePrevention #MensHealth

🌟 CAPES faculty Dr. Martha Zimmermann is partnering with Candlelit Care to test a mobile app supporting Black mothers at risk for perinatal mood & anxiety disorders. 📰 Read more: www.umassmed.edu/news/news-ar... #FacultySpotlight #PerinatalMentalHealth #HealthEquity #DigitalHealth #CAPES

🌟 Marlborough ED is now live on the Jaspr study! “I love this app — this is genius.” We’re excited to expand access to digital, evidence-based suicide care. Thanks to @JasprHealth + our Marlborough partners for making this possible. #CAPES #Jaspr #SuicidePrevention

New resource for clinicians: Effective Suicide Care — a clear, research-based guide on what works to reduce suicide risk. Reviewed by CAPES faculty Lourah Kelly, Ed Boudreaux & Rachel Davis-Martin. 🔗 Brief: online.fliphtml5.com/ucxxu/xxkh/#... 🔗 More resources: www.umassmed.edu/capes/clinic...

Dr. Ed Boudreaux, CAPES Director, presented new Jaspr implementation findings at IASR/AFSP—showing what supports successful digital suicide care in EDs. Poster here ⬇️

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Ultimately, failing in academia was the greatest relief I ever experienced scim.ag/4kgElQx

Forced abstinence has been shown repeatedly to be worse (ie harms and kills people at higher rates) than not intervening in people’s substance use at all. And it doesn’t even reduce drug use.

🚨HOT TAKE ALERT🚨 If you have built your scientific career off federal funding, you can organize a teach in at your favorite park or brewery to tell the public how you spend their tax dollars. AND why we should INCREASE federal research and development $$$. It’s not rocket science…or maybe it is?

Read my new FREE article "She Didn't 'Pick Wrong'. Society Failed By Creating Millions of Abusive Men. Link: open.substack.com/pub/dremmaka... It's time to stop blaming women for their "bad choices" in "picking abusive men". #domesticviolence

True in the US as well as the UK. We live in a talent economy. Today universities are the means of production. Also, both the humanities and science create long-term economic advantages to go along with their clear short-term economic benefits.

Get tips and resources from CAPES including crisis hotlines and textlines, warmlines, how to find a therapist, and stories of lived experience and peer led supports on our website www.umassmed.edu/capes/lookin...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Family support is an important part of recovery. If you're looking for organizations that can help you support a family member, see our 'How to Get Help for Someone Else' section of our website. www.umassmed.edu/capes/lookin...

One of the cruelest things about the NSF/NIH situations is that federal funders have been asking for acknowledgment about disparate impacts, inequality, etc. for years. To get a grant at all you had to (rightly) address those things. Now is the punishment for both caring and following the rules.

If you haven't already, join AAUP. Encourage your lab members to join their union, UAW local 2710. These are the orgs most likely to pressure Uni admin to join together with other Unis. As a starting model, see what Rutgers senate proposed for Big Ten schools: www.commondreams.org/news/rutgers...