UB Addiction News

CRIA faculty members comprise a dynamic research community at UB who make news with their breakthroughs in studying the causes, consequences and biology of addiction.

In Memoriam: Howard Blane

Howard T. Blane, PhD.

Howard Blane, PhD, the highly respected Director Emeritus of RIA, passed away on April 7. He was 92. As director from 1986 to 1996, he guided the Research Institute on Addictions through a period of tremendous growth and change. Read more about his career and influence here. 

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UB joins the Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
4/30/19

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and UB's Clinical Research Institute on Addictions are among more than 100 organizations that have joined the national effort.

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UB receives Fulbright award to bring international scholars to Buffalo for opioid crisis education
4/16/19

UB has been selected  to host nearly 100 Fulbright Foreign Students from around the world in late April for a three-day Fulbright Enrichment Seminar titled “Combating Addiction and Addressing the Opioid Crisis.”

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UB scientist to receive inaugural ASPET Early Career Award
2/11/19

Jun-Xu Li, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, is being recognized by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) with the inaugural JH Woods Early Career Award in Behavioral Pharmacology.

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After naloxone, when can opioid overdose patients be safely discharged?
12/28/18
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Naloxone has saved thousands of lives. But can patients be safely discharged from the Emergency Department (ED) just an hour after they receive the medication that curtails drug overdoses?
UB researcher Gregory Homish.
UB researcher awarded $2.7 million NIH grant to study health of military personnel
12/12/18

Combined with a previous $2.3 million NIH grant for the ongoing study, Homish has now received $5 million for the project.

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Study sheds light on alcohol misuse among never-deployed reservists
11/29/18

Problem alcohol use is more common among Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers who have greater negative emotions over having never been deployed.

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Nonprescription use of Ritalin may cause structural changes in brain, study finds
11/16/18

As nonprescription use of Ritalin increases among young adults, researchers at UB's Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions warn that such use may cause irreversible structural changes in certain areas of the brain.