Join us June 3-7, 2007, at University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie, Wisconsin, for the Twenty-third Annual National Rural Institute on Alcohol and Drug Abuse: Bringing Excellence to Rural America. 

This unique rural alcohol and drug abuse conference provides participants the opportunity to personally interact with other rural alcohol and drug abuse professionals, federal agency representatives, and nationally known institute faculty and resource persons. Key resource persons from throughout the United States will present 12 hour in-depth tracks, 4 1/2 hour mini-workshops and 1 1/2 hour special topic sessions on current, innovative and emerging topics. 

CSAP Scholarships*:
To qualify for a prevention scholarship, an applicant must register for Track 3: Prevention Works in Rural America. Scholarships cover full tuition, meals, and an on-campus double room. The URL for the scholarship form is: www.uwstout.edu/outreach/conf/nri/documents/NRIFillinCSAP.pdf.

CSAP Scholarship applications are due by May 8.

Medical and Allied Health Professionals:
The Scaife Family Foundation Medical Track includes sessions on neurobiology of addiction, identification of the drug dependent person in the hospital/clinic, physician health, detoxification strategies including Buprenorphine, Naltrexone, Vivitrol, benzodiazepines, xanax, ativan et.al., and addiction and recovery.

Forty-five scholarships are available for medical students, interns, residents or allied health professionals including nurses. Each scholarship recipient will have his/her registration fee fully paid. This includes all lectures and workshops, all meals, and lodging in a residence hall. In addition, each recipient receives a $300 stipend to help defray travel and incidental costs. All applicants must be interested in learning more about alcohol and drug abuse and medical practice in rural America.

Family and Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts:
This track for rural drug court practitioners focuses on the unique operational issues and problems faced by rural drug court programs. Eight scholarships are available to drug court practitioners. In addition, each recipient receives a $300 stipend to help defray travel and incidental costs. All applicants must be interested in learning more about the treatment courts.

Details on track content, scholarship application forms, and registration forms are available on the Internet at: www.uwstout.edu/outreach/conf/nri.

Editor's Note, 04/30/2007: CSAP Scholarship information added April 30, 2007.