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Opportunity Summary:

The Drug Abuse Prevention Intervention Research (R01) funding opportunity (PA-08-217) is a National Institutes of Health discretionary grant program designed to strengthen and expand the science of preventing drug abuse and drug-related HIV. It supports full-scale Research Project Grant (R01) studies that move beyond describing problems and instead generate actionable prevention knowledge. The main focus is on discovering and improving approaches that can reduce drug abuse and dependence and, at the same time, reduce downstream harms that often travel with substance use, including drug-related HIV and other infections (such as hepatitis B and hepatitis C), co-occurring mental health problems, interpersonal violence, criminal justice involvement, and losses in work or school productivity. A consistent theme across the announcement is building evidence that can realistically translate to broader, population-level impact rather than remaining limited to small, highly controlled settings.

The FOA encourages four major types of research. First, it seeks the development of novel prevention approaches, meaning new strategies, programs, or models that could prevent initiation, escalation, or harmful consequences of drug use. Second, it supports the testing of novel and adapted prevention intervention approaches, which includes both evaluating newly created interventions and rigorously examining interventions that have been modified for new populations, cultures, delivery systems, or real-world constraints. Third, it prioritizes research that explains how evidence-based interventions are selected, adopted, adapted, implemented, sustained over time, and financed. This implementation-oriented emphasis recognizes that even well-supported interventions can fail to make a difference if they are not feasible, affordable, acceptable to communities, or maintainable within schools, clinics, justice settings, social service systems, or community organizations. Fourth, it invites the development of new research methodologies appropriate for prevention studies, including improved designs and analytic strategies that can better capture complex prevention effects, real-world implementation variability, and longer-term outcomes.

This opportunity uses the NIH R01 mechanism, which is typically intended for substantial, hypothesis-driven projects with enough scope to produce definitive evidence. The announcement notes that it runs in parallel with two companion FOAs that share the same scientific scope but use smaller mechanisms: PA-08-218 for the R21 exploratory/developmental grant and PA-08-219 for the R03 small research grant. In practice, that means applicants should choose the mechanism that best matches the maturity and scale of their research plan, with PA-08-217 being the option for more comprehensive projects requiring larger budgets and longer timelines.

Funding levels and the number of awards are not fixed in advance. The FOA makes clear that award size and project duration will vary depending on the nature and scope of the proposed work, and that the total amount awarded and the number of funded projects will depend on the quantity and quality of applications received, as well as their requested costs and durations. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which reduces barriers for organizations that may not have discretionary resources to contribute to the project budget.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of U.S. and non-U.S. organizations. Eligible applicants span public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status, for-profit organizations (including small businesses), state and local governments (including counties, cities/townships, special districts, and independent school districts), public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, and tribal governments and tribal organizations (both federally recognized and other than federally recognized). The FOA also explicitly includes a range of mission-driven and capacity-building institution types and community-linked entities, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, faith-based or community-based organizations, regional organizations, U.S. territories or possessions, and foreign (non-U.S.) organizations. This wide eligibility reflects the FOA's interest in prevention research that can be conducted in diverse settings and with populations that experience different patterns of risk, access, and service delivery.

Key administrative details from the source data include the Funding Opportunity Number PA-08-217, the CFDA number 93.279 (Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs), and an original posted date of July 28, 2008. The original and current closing date listed is September 7, 2011, and the archive date is October 8, 2011, indicating the announcement is no longer active but remains a useful reference point for the scope NIH sought under this line of prevention intervention research. The full announcement was hosted through the NIH grants guide, and the contact listed for access or technical issues is the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) Webmaster.

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