Nebraska to create center for addressing rural drug issues

On April 24, the university announced that it received an $11.85 million grant to form the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center, a National Institutes of Health Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. It is the country’s only major research center to focus on drug use in the Midwest. The multidisciplinary center will conduct cutting-edge research into understanding the extent and nature of rural addiction, develop evidence-based treatment methods, and support outreach and policy efforts to help reduce addiction and overdoses. Kirk Dombrowski, John Bruhn Professor of Sociology, is the principal investigator of the university’s fifth COBRE.