Opioid addiction effects on bones is subject of NIJ research grant

(University of Akron) Thanks to a two-year grant of $370,153 from the National Institute of Justice, Dr. Janna Andronowski and her lab can research the effects of one of our country's costliest and fastest-growing epidemics--opioid addiction--on bone remodeling, the body's continuing process of formation and destruction of bone tissue. Andronowski and her team will use innovative 3D X-ray imaging technology to describe how opioids impact the microscopic bone structures used to estimate age-at-death in forensic anthropology.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news