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December 2, 2019
UW Researchers Find Clue to Preventing Addiction Relapse
A study by ADAI Director Dr. Susan Ferguson was able to control relapse to heroin use in rats by using chemogenetic receptors to act as a “light switch” on neurons in the nucleus accumbens region of the brain. This process could prevent relapse for other addictions, like compulsive gambling or overeating, which affect the same…
November 25, 2019
Inside One of Seattle’s Biggest Opioid Busts
ADAI scientist Caleb Banta-Green was interviewed for a fascinating story about the drug fentanyl, and the multi-state effort to bring down a leading drug dealer in Seattle. Read the full story at Seattle Met . . .
November 14, 2019
Speaking from the Heart: The Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP)
The Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP) is an award-winning home visitation case‐management intervention working with a challenging population: pregnant and parenting women who have substance use disorders and trauma histories. Begun in 1991 at the University of Washington, PCAP now operates in fifteen counties throughout Washington State with the goals of helping mothers build healthy families…
Highly Potent Opioid Carfentanil Found in Seattle
Carfentanil, an opioid 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times stronger than fentanyl, is showing up in Seattle with increasing frequency. In a KOMO News interview, ADAI principal scientist Caleb Banta-Green warns that users don’t know what they’re getting, or the dangers of this drug. View the full story on KOMO News. In…
November 5, 2019
“You don’t cure addiction — you manage it,” says ADAI scientist in interview with Variety.
Caleb Banta-Green, ADAI principal research scientist, told the entertainment news source Variety that “You don’t cure addiction — you manage it actively with counseling. You need to create a new life and a new way of interacting with people in a way that is healthy for you.” The interview was published on November 5 in Variety‘s Recovery…
October 22, 2019
Washington’s Ban on Nicotine Vaping Products is a “Stopgap Public-Health Imperative”
In an op-ed published in the Seattle Times, ADAI research scientist Bia Carlini and WSU professor Laura Hill challenge an earlier column that downplayed the appropriateness of Washington’s ban on nicotine vaping products. Noting the lack of research into these unregulated and widely-available products which have been linked to illnesses in hundreds of individuals and…
“Treat Us Like Human Beings”: New ADAI Report Features Interviews with Syringe Exchange Participants
A new brief from Alison Newman, MPH, Connor Henry, MPH, and Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MPH, MSW, “Treat us like individual human beings”: 2018 qualitative interviews with Washington State syringe exchange participants,” is now available on our Publications & Reports page. To get a richer understanding of the lives of syringe exchange participants, the authors conducted…
October 18, 2019
Sign Up to Get a Monthly Summary of New Opioid/Overdose Research
Susan Kingston of the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute puts out a monthly email newsletter that features the latest in opioid and overdose-related research and commentary. If you’re interested in subscribing, send an email to stopovd@uw.edu. Here’s what was featured in the October 2019 issue: From Local Researchers Engaging an unstably housed population with low-barrier…
October 16, 2019
UW Researchers Receive $40M in NIH Efforts to Address Pain
To address the opioid epidemic, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the HEAL Initiative to support research aimed at helping people with opioid addiction, and exploring safer treatment options for chronic pain. The University of Washington School of Medicine has received multiple awards totaling about $40 million. Included in the HEAL research funding are…
October 4, 2019
Dr. Caleb Banta-Green on “Drugs, Addiction & Recovery”
What do you need to know about substance use disorders and what is the latest science on drugs, addiction, and recovery? Find out from ADAI Senior Research Scientist Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MPH, MSW, who gave a one-hour presentation to King County prosecutors in September on why people use drugs or alcohol, what substance use disorders…
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