Substance Use Disorder
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  • Jul 30 2024

Thomas Prisinzano, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the UK College of Pharmacy, has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.

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  • Jul 9 2024

Jennifer Grisham, professor in the Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education program and faculty director of the Early Childhood Laboratory at UK has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.

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  • May 21 2024

The industries that suffered the most overdose deaths were surprising, according to research conducted by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC) at UK's College of Public Health

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  • Apr 26 2024

A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky have found that both culturally tailored and culturally universal approaches can be effective for cocaine treatment in Black Americans.

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  • Apr 16 2024

UK doctoral student Kara Cook was recently awarded a Substance Use Priority Research Area (SUPRA) Graduate Student Grant to explore the unintended consequences of classifying controlled substances.

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  • Mar 7 2024

That’s according to a new RAND study, co-authored by Julie Cerel, Ph.D., professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky, and published in the American Journal of Public Health.

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  • Feb 2 2024

An unusual spike in drug overdoses in Lexington, recently has spurred the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department to advise people, especially those with substance use disorder or those connected to someone with it, to carry naloxone.

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  • Jan 26 2024

A community advisory board is marking more than a year of impacting research at the University of Kentucky.

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  • Jan 10 2024

The Substance Use Research Priority Area has set the date for its sixth annual Substance Use Research Event (SURE) and registration is currently open.

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  • Dec 4 2023

A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky is working to better understand the impact of opioid use disorder on mothers and babies.