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Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute awarded a Virginia Catalyst grant to curtail opioid overdoses

December 4, 2017

Warren Bickel (left), the Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Health Research Professor, and Michael Friedlander, executive director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, hope to end the problem of repeated opioid overdoses during addiction treatment. Also pictured are technicians at the VTCRI Addiction Recovery Research Center.

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Warren Bickel (left, standing), the Virginia Tech Carilion Behavioral Health Research Professor, and Michael Friedlander, executive director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, hope to end the problem of repeated opioid overdoses during addiction treatment. Also pictured are Lexie Mellis, a translational biology, medicine, and health graduate student, and research technician Natalie Popsuy.

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