Five IDeA-funded programs from across the nation, including the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Rural Drug Addiction Research Center, are collaborating to present the 2024 Symposium on Substance Use Research. It will take place Nov. 6-7, via Zoom.
The symposium will focus on leveraging research, knowledge and insight on substance use. The event is free and open to the public. Register here to attend.
The virtual format will include expert keynotes, panel discussions and research presentations. George Koob, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, will deliver the first keynote lecture, "Changing the Conversation about Alcohol in the United States."
The second keynote, by Diana Martinez, will address "Neurocircuitry of Habit and Change in Substance Use Disorders.” Martinez is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University.
The five IDeA-funded programs co-hosting the event are the Rural Drug Addiction Research COBRE, the COBRE on Opioids and Overdose, the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the West Virginia INBRE at Marshall University and the COBRE Center for Addiction and Disease Risk Exacerbation at Brown University.
More information on the symposium is available here.
