By Ivy Scott / Special to The Journal

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Hundreds of students and Providence community members gathered at Brown University on Wednesday morning to participate in the national school walkout.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study shows that healthy people who take attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs experience a surge in the neurotransmitter glutamate in key parts of the brain. And that increase in glutamate is associated with subsequent changes in positive emotion.

Providence, R.I. [Brown University School of Public Health]- On February 22nd, 2018, the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies welcomed George Koob, PhD, Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), to give a presentation on the neurocircuitry involved in addiction. His presentation, “Neurobiology of Addiction: The Gain in the Brain Is in the Pain,” drew staff, students, and faculty from across the university.

Join us on Friday, February 23rd from 2-4pm at the School of Public Health in Room 375 for an interdisciplinary discussion on "Reclaiming

An opinion piece by Suzanne Colby,  professor of behavioral and social sciences, in the Providence Journal warns readers not to trust the tobacco industry: 

[Lynn Arditi for RINPR] A new study co-led by Rhode Island epidemiologist Traci Green, found that a simple drug testing strip -- similar to a home pregnancy test --  accurately detected the potentially deadly opioid fentanyl in street drug samples.