About the Ohio Valley Node

The Ohio Valley Node (OVN) became part of NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network (CTN) in the year 2000. During its first five years in the CTN the OVN consisted of six community treatment programs in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia, along with the Cincinnati Addiction Research Center as its University of Cincinnati-based Regional Research and Training Center (RRTC).

Since 2000 the number of collaborating treatment programs in the OVN has increased from six to twenty-three, and the OVN now encompasses all of the Midwestern states, as well as Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Traditional community drug treatment programs have been joined by two emergency rooms, several primary care centers and HIV/AIDS clinics, and – as a result of our increasing collaboration with the American Indians of the Northern Plains – three reservation-based health centers.

The Ohio Valley Node’s RRTC and its collaborating treatment program staff members have developed a model bi-directional working relationship, which has contributed immeasurably to our success as a node: Since 2000, the OVN has participated in 20 CTN clinical trials and other studies, six of them as lead node.

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