UArizona Nursing Faculty Win Prize for the NIDA 'Substance Use Prevention Services in Primary Care' Challenge

The University of Arizona College of Nursing is proud to announce that faculty members Timothy Sowicz, PhD, RN and Tarnia Newton, DNP, FNP-C, along with Carrie Ann Langley, DNP, PhD, MPH, PMHNP-BC, of The University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, are the winners of $25,000 prizes for their submissions to the “Substance Use Prevention Services in Primary Care” Challenge. The title of the winning submission was "Community Health Worker-led Substance Use Prevention Model for Recently Incarcerated Persons."

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) holds the “Substance Use Prevention Services in Primary Care” Challenge every year. NIDA sincerely appreciates all the solvers who entered the Challenge and applauds their efforts in developing innovative models for substance use risk screening and prevention services in primary care.