Center for Substance Abuse Research | CESAR l Center for Substance Abuse Research l University of Maryland

CESAR Director Jessica Magidson Pens a 'USA Today' Article on the Opioid Epidemic

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CESAR and UMD Receives $6M+ of New Funding for Substance Use Treatment Research

CESAR Receives Grant to Create Digital Hub Serving Peer Recovery Specialists in Maryland

Table 2: Common Drugs Detected in 8 Xylazine Positive Specimens, Feb-May 2023

MD-EDDS: Xylazine Detected in 8% of Positive Specimens from Meritus Medical Center; All Contained Fentanyl

CESAR Director Jessica Magidson Named an MPower Professor

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Roads to Recovery: Mobile Treatment Units Bring Help and Hope To Rural Maryland

Applying a mutual capacity building model to inform peer provider programs in South Africa and the United States

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UMD-led System Shows Success in Helping Hospitals Understand Fentanyl Use in their Communities

Text: Xylazine | New EDDS Findings | Study finds 78% of urines positive for xylazine also contained fentanyl

Xylazine Now Included in CESAR EDDS Urine Drug Test Panels

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CESAR Leads An Interdisciplinary Initiative Funded Through the University of Maryland's Grand Challenges

The Center for Substance Use, Addiction & Health Research (CESAR) is leading IN-PLACE (Interdisciplinary Network for Place-based Learning, Action, and Community-engaged EnvironMental Health), a new interdisciplinary initiative funded through the University of Maryland's Grand Challenges 2.0 Institutional Award program.

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PhD Candidate Morgan Anvari Receives NIDA Grant and James W. Longest Award

Doctoral candidate Morgan Soraya Anvari is the recipient of two awards. She received a dissertation grant (R36) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for RAISE:

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Dr. Andrea M. Lopez Invited to Wenner-Gren Workshop

Associate Professor Andrea M. Lopez is an invited participant in a Wenner-Gren funded workshop, "Towards developing an anthropologically inspired research agenda for the study of people who inject drugs." Wenner-Gren workshops are highly competitive funded projects that convene a select group of scholars to advance significant and innovative anthropological research.

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