Opioids

Dr. Leana Wen posing for a portrait
NPR - When a Prescription for Pain Pills Becomes a Gateway to Addiction
Leana Wen, M.D., instructor of emergency medicine, wrote an op-ed for NPR's Shots on how drug addiction can often start in the emergency room with prescription pain killers.
Dr. Norman Lee posing for a portrait
GW Professor Receives Grant to Study the Role of Genes in Drug Addiction
Norman H. Lee, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), received a total of $405,001 in grant funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to continue to study the correlation between genetics and susceptibility…
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