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If you want to know how people become addicted and why they keep using drugs, ask the people who are addicted. Thirty-one of 75 patients hospitalized for opioid detoxification told University at Buffalo physicians they first got hooked on drugs legitimately prescribed for pain.

The world's most powerful particle physics accelerator may be located on the border of France and Switzerland, but you won't have to travel overseas to see how its scientists do their work. High school students attending a University at Buffalo summer workshop will put on a fun, audience-friendly performance about collisions between subatomic particles at 4 p.m. tomorrow (Friday, Aug. 20) in 308 Fronczak Hall on the UB North Campus. Media are invited to attend.

Two University at Buffalo researchers are challenging the "myth of the well-adjusted Asian American," detailing how members of one of the country's fastest-growing ethnic groups face crucial disadvantages preventing them from receiving quality health care taken for granted by other, more culturally assimilated Americans.

With the Buffalo skyline as the backdrop, the roof of the Buffalo Museum of Science is the setting on Wednesday, August 18 for a free evening of talk about the universe, with thematically appropriate live music ("The Planets" by Holst) provided by the Long Winters String Quartet and public telescope viewing.

Each day, we exchange a mess of content through Facebook, Twitter, blogs, discussion boards and other online forums. What does this digital information reveal about our real selves, and how are companies and other organizations using our data? Rohini Srihari, who teaches classes on Web search and mining, understands the potential of data mining -- and the complicated concerns it raises.

Students who want to enroll in an outstanding public university that won't saddle them with crushing debt would be wise to consider the University at Buffalo, according to U.S. News and World Report.

Neurosurgeons at the University at Buffalo successfully implanted a stent in an artery inside the skull of a 14-year-old boy to prevent a stroke, a procedure thought to be the first conducted in an adolescent.

Mike Lisieski, a University at Buffalo psychology major, plans to earn an MD/PhD in neuroscience but for now he appears to be the web's chief "cephalover," using his blog cephalove to carefully analyze research about octopuses and related animals and post stunning photographs of them.

The restoration of a central, 2.3-acre quadrangle at the University at Buffalo by a renowned landscape architecture firm showcases the kind of sustainable landscaping that will define campus grounds as UB implements its long-range plan.

Lawrence Wrabetz, MD, head of the myelin biology unit at San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy, has been appointed director of the Hunter James Kelly Research Institute (HJKRI) at the University at Buffalo. Laura Feltri, MD, who heads the neuroglia unit at the Italian institute and is Wrabetz's spouse, also has been recruited to the HJKRI, which was established in 2004 by UB and the Hunter's Hope Foundation.