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Waletzky Memorial Award Winners’ Lectures at NIDA Illuminate Cocaine’s Many Effects on Brain Structure, Circuitry

January 28, 2015 | The two most recent winners of the Waletzky Memorial Award, Dr. Paul E. M. Phillips, professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pharmacology at the University of...

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E-cigarette use associated with risk of relapse among former cigarette smokers

June 5, 2020 | This study has shown that among former smokers, use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), including e-cigarettes and other e-products, is associated with increased chance of cigarette smoking relapse.

Iowa officials warn public about counterfeit oxycodone

July 18, 2017 | Health and safety agencies in Iowa have issued an advisory to warn Iowans of counterfeit pain pills containing dangerous synthetic opioids.