The C-DIAS Research Core integrates three teams of experts led by top research scientists to accelerate the delivery and sustainment of the best available treatments for everyone.

A major challenge to closing the identified gaps is advancing our knowledge of not just what treatments to implement — but how to implement and sustain them.

Implementation strategies are the activities necessary to install and maintain the best available treatments so that people who need care can get high-quality care. Leading advanced implementation research design and development via four large studies across the United States, the C-DIAS Research Core strives to unpack the black box of Implementation Strategies (Figure 1).

Unlike the prevailing, expensive, and inefficient practice of widespread provider training and one-size-fits-all technical assistance, greater evidence-based precision is needed to optimize the return on investment of national, public, and private health systems efforts to address the national addiction problem — particularly the opioid overdose epidemic.