News

2023
Jennifer Hill was a guest on the podcast discussing the role of causality in data science applications.
Alex Bennett was a guest on the program discussing naloxone, overdose prevention and its availability over-the-counter at pharmacies.
Joseph Palamar has been named Deputy Director of the National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS). He will oversee the rapid dissemination of NDEWS data and assist the Director, Linda Cottler, with strategic planning.
Coverage of intervention conducted by Don Des Jarlais and Anneli Uuskula that showed asking people who inject drugs (PWID) to not assist others with initiation into injection drug use, not only prevented initiation, but also helped a proportion of PWID to stop injection use.
Amanda Bunting received a HEAL Director’s Trailblazer Award for her project, Adaption of the STAIR-NT Trauma Intervention for Polysubstance Populations. The award recognizes researchers who are applying an innovative approach or creativity in their research or are expanding HEAL research into addressing the pain and opioid crisis in new directions.
Spotlight on Dustin Duncan as the featured investigator by the NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office for February 2023.
Janie Simmons was featured for her project "Rockaway Gets Naloxone", which distributes naloxone and fentanyl test strips free of charge (starts around 8:15).