For more than a decade, University of Kentucky College of Public Health researcher April Young, Ph.D., has been developing new methods to help and empathetically serve people struggling with substance use disorder to reduce some of the harm that they experience.
(TNS) Deliberation over a proposal to invest state money in clinical research of a psychedelic drug as a potential treatment for opioid addiction is intensifying.
“It does have a certain attractiveness to think if you could give a single dose of a drug, that could give a lifetime cure,” said Dr. Mark Haigney, but, “My opinion is ibogaine is not safe.”
William Stoops, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine’s Department of Behavioral Science, Psychiatry and Psychology, is one of 16 University Research Professors for 2023-24. Stoops’ research uses human laboratory and clinical trial methods to understand the behavioral and pharmacological factors contributing to substance use disorder, focusing mainly on cocaine use disorder.
(TNS) Last summer, Kentucky’s 11-member Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission met for the first time in a fluorescent-lit room in Frankfort, introducing themselves around a horseshoe of plastic folding tables.