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Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson have invented a new class of non-opioid compounds to treat pain.
University Research | AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Treatment & Prevention | The University of ArizonaPenn State Health has joined with other health care providers across south-central Pennsylvania to present a united front in the war against opioid and heroin abuse.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Serving Local Communities | The Pennsylvania State UniversitySocial science researchers at Penn State are leading initiatives to combat the increasing number of drug overdoses from prescription opioids, heroin, and synthetic opioids.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Serving Local Communities | The Pennsylvania State UniversityTwo new Penn State projects are aiming to educate the public about opioids while utilizing partnerships with law enforcement and community organizations to identify and disrupt networks of opioid distribution.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Serving Local Communities | The Pennsylvania State UniversityThe Penn State Evidence-based Prevention and Intervention Support Center (EPISCenter) is helping a state agency — which works to prevent violence, delinquency and substance abuse in youth — implement a model that shows which prevention programs provide the most cost-effective services to…
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Serving Local Communities | The Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have joined a national network of Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTCs).
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Serving Local Communities | The University of Wisconsin-MadisonNYU’s Holly Hagan, a co-director of the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research and professor at the Rory Meyers College of Nursing, is a nurse and epidemiologist whose research has focused primarily on the infectious disease consequences of substance abuse.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | New York UniversityThe Western New York community has enlisted experts from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to help combat the national opioid epidemic, which has reached crisis proportions.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Serving Local Communities | University at Buffalo - The State University of New YorkMany opioid abusers switch to heroin because it’s more potent and cheaper. This trend complicates disease prevention because people inject heroin much sooner, potentially resulting in increased risk of injection-related epidemics such as hepatitis C and HIV.
University Research | AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | University of Southern CaliforniaA genome-wide analysis of more than 5,000 opioid users has revealed a gene variant associated with opioid dependence in European-Americans.
University Research | AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Yale University