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University of Michigan researchers from a wide range of disciplines are working together to formulate and answer critical questions about opioids. These collaborative efforts have placed U-M at the forefront of opioid research.
Media Mention: Michigan researchers create a new tool to aid in observing interactions within neuronal signals
Researchers at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute have created a tool that aids in discovering how neuronal signals are utilized by neurons, which they announced in an article published April 22. The new tool called a SPOTIT, or a Single-chain...
Faculty Feature: Six research faculty members recognized with OVPR awards
The Office of the Vice President for Research will honor six research faculty members from across the University of Michigan for their significant contributions and leadership in fields ranging from firearm injury prevention and multi-scale computation to Earth remote...
U-M partners with Safe RX to provide locking pill vials to community organizations
Throughout 2023, the University of Michigan's Overdose Prevention Engagement Network (OPEN) began distributing Safe Rx Locking Pill Vials (LPVs) to conference attendees as a way to promote safe storage of medications. It became clear very quickly that there was a...
Media Mention: Cannabis and psychedelics: stigmatized substances or powerful therapeutics?
Dr. Kevin Boehnke talks about cannabis, psychedelics, and the increasing body of evidence for their legitimization as therapeutics. Listen to the podcast episode
Media Mention: Addiction is a lifelong disease and not a moral failing
Rethinking addiction: Dr. Chad Brummett discusses how the opioid epidemic has opened up research opportunities to better manage these powerful drugs, including efforts to use data to improve clinical care. Listen to the podcast episode
Faculty Feature: Six faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences
Six University of Michigan professors are among 120 new members inducted into the National Academy of Sciences for distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Twenty-four international members also were recognized. Among the U-M inductees is Dr....
It’s easier now to treat opioid addiction with medication – but use has changed little
Abrupt policy shift removed a unique barrier to prescribing buprenorphine, but didn’t lead to a sharp rise in prescribing by the end of the first year. For years, even as opioid overdose deaths dramatically increased, doctors and other prescribers in the United States...
Take A.C.T.I.O.N. Naloxone Training Travels to Community High School for First All-Teen Training
On Wednesday, April 10th, Dr. Gina Dahlem, Clinical Associate Professor at University of Michigan School of Nursing, brought the Take A.C.T.I.O.N. Naloxone In-Person Training to Community High School, where a group of students grades 9-12 gathered together to learn...
Media Mention: Real-Time Opioid Overdose Data Improves Safety Response from Community
Opioid overdose deaths have grown ten-fold in Michigan since 2000, and the opioid epidemic continues to be a major public health crisis impacting thousands of Michiganders and their loved ones. To improve coordinated community response to opioid overdoses, University...
Faculty Feature: U-M Announces New Department Professorship
The Department of Psychiatry nominated and the Regents have approved Maureen Walton, PhD, MPH as the inaugural Toby Brzoznowski Research Professor effective March 1, 2024. Dr. Walton is Professor and the Associate Chair for Research and Research Faculty Development in...