Expertise

• Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) / alcoholism
• Abuse of prescription opioids / narcotic analgesics — morphine, fentanyl, laudanum, codeine, OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin
• Narcotic overdose emergency treatments / naloxone
• Heroin / methadone
• Drug abuse prevention and treatment strategies

Additional Information

• Director, Alcohol and Brain Research Laboratory at USC
• Director of the MS program in Management of Drug Development which is part of the International Center of Regulatory Science at USC School of Pharmacy.
• Co-Facilitator, USC undergraduate Minor in Science and Management of Biomedical Therapeutics
• D. 1996 Molecular Pharmacology & Toxicology – University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy

Related links

• Faculty page
• Profile
• Potential drug treatment for alcohol abuse studied at USC