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 Virtual 2025 Symposium on Substance Use Research. The event will take place Nov. 5-6 via Zoom and will focus on leveraging research, knowledge and insight on substance use.
The symposium is free and open to the public. Register online by Nov. 3 to receive the Zoom links.
The virtual format will feature expert keynotes, research presentations and panel discussions. The panels will explore the comorbidities of PTSD, depression and substance use disorder, and novel uses for GLP-1 agonists and neuropeptide-directed therapeutics to treat substance use disorder.
Keynote speakers include Traci Toomey, professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, presenting “Policy and Implementation Issues Related to Cannabis Legalization," and Dr. Sachin Patel, Lizzie Gilman Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, presenting “Neural Mechanisms Subserving 'Dark-Side' Effects of Cannabinoids.”
The five IDeA-funded programs co-hosting the event are Rural Drug Addiction Research, COBRE on Opioids and Overdose, West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute, West Virginia INBRE at Marshall University and COBRE Center for Addiction and Disease Risk Exacerbation at Brown University.
More information on the symposium is available online.
