Pittsburgh-based Opioid Research Center gets $7.2M grant

Rand Corp.'s Pittsburgh-based Opioid Policy Tools and Information Center received a $7.2 million grant from a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health. The research center, dubbed OPTIC, will work on ways to determine the impact of opioid policies, why some work and some don't, and also develop a simulator that can determine effective methods and policies to stop the opioid crisis. OPTIC's director is Dr. Bradley D. Stein and the co-directors are Rand Senior Economist Rosalie Liccardo Pacula…
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