Treatment Basics

Dr. Coyne is a nationally recognized adult educator who provides training, technical assistance, and consultation services in the assessment and treatment of individuals with substance use and co-occurring disorders. His services have been utilized in more than 40 states and three countries, several of which he has assisted in developing and implementing web-based performance improvement and outcomes monitoring systems.

He is one of the most — if not the most — experienced and effective adult educators in the country in the correct administration and application of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) and the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria.

While he is most widely recognized for his work related to the clinical application of standardized assessment tools (e.g., the ASI) and evidence-based criteria (e.g., the ASAM Criteria), he also has extensive experience in the design, delivery, and evaluation of training and technology transfer across a wide range of behavioral health topics and initiatives.

Dr. Coyne was a member of the original training team approved by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to deliver training on NIDA’s proven and effective relapse prevention approaches. He is the only member of that team who has continued to provide training on these approaches both nationally and internationally.

He earned his doctorate from Columbia University, where he studied the learning transfer systems of community-based treatment programs. He continues to examine the systemic factors — including trainee characteristics, training design, and work environment variables — that influence learning, learning transfer, and innovation adoption in community-based organizations (CBOs).

He has long been an advocate for using evidence-based adult learning practices to implement evidence-based treatment practices and for transforming treatment agencies into learning organizations.

Dr. Coyne has worked with numerous governmental entities at the county, state, national, and international levels. His expertise has supported contracts and grants with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), the Center on Alcohol and Substance Abuse (CASA), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the National Drug Court Institute (NDCI), and the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP).