Shaffer, Paige M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6520-1044
Smelson, David A.
Gaba, Ayorkor
Casey, Sheila C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
SAMHSA (1H79TI026128)
Article History
Accepted: 27 October 2020
First Online: 9 November 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Paige Shaffer, Ayorkor Gaba, and David Smelson declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the University of Massachusetts, or the Massachusetts Executive Office of the Trial Court or United States Governments.
: This open pilot was reviewed by the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Institutional Review Board and was determined to be program evaluation rather than human subjects research.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by any of the authors.
: Per UMMS IRB, this study was deemed evaluation and not human research. However, all procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.