Why does a person choose to use an addictive substance? What are the consequences of their decisions? And how, if necessary, can researchers intervene?
These are some of the questions at the heart of Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences Alexander Sokolovsky’s research in polysubstance use within Brown’s Center for Addiction and Disease Risk Exacerbation. The center, known as CADRE, was established within the School of Public Health as a research hub focused on substance use and chronic disease manifestations in vulnerable populations. Now, thanks to a renewed federal grant of $12.3 million, CADRE projects which were in development including Sokolovsky’s can commence.
CADRE, founded in 2019 as a National Institute of Health-recognized Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, or COBRE, is part of a federally funded effort seeking to improve Rhode Island’s research infrastructure…