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The RARC at the Brain Health Institute brings together researchers, clinicians, and community members dedicated to tackling addiction.
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialRARC researcher Jessica E. Salvatore, PhD, was featured in Prevention discussing rising alcohol use among adults ages 50–64, including possible links to financial stress and the importance of alcohol use as a modifiable factor in healthy aging.
Learn more: https://loom.ly/zwkGvMU
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialRARC’s Anne Fernandez of @rwjms.bsky.social was featured in Medscape discussing changing trends in alcohol use, the rise of abstinence and cutting back, and what these shifts mean for clinical care and long-term health. Learn more: https://loom.ly/4xcoIks
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialA new @rutgerssph.bsky.social and @rutgersifh.bsky.social study found U.S. benzodiazepine prescriptions declined 26.7% from 2013–2024, with average doses also decreasing. Learn more: ttps://loom.ly/menHybQ
@washingtonpost.comReposted by @rutgersarc.bsky.socialThe deaths of two University of Mississippi students potentially linked to synthetic kratom triggered renewed calls to ban the addictive drug. But it remains legal, both federally and in most states, despite mounting evidence of its harms.
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialJoin us Oct. 22, 11am–12pm for the RARC College Substance Use SIG with Jennifer Buckman, PhD. Come in person for a preview of the NEW NJ HELIX Rutgers Health building, or join via Zoom. Topic: health risks of recreational alcohol & cannabis use. loom.ly/09G4aDM
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialPublic Health Alert: Cychlorphine, a highly potent synthetic opioid, has been detected in the U.S. drug supply & may be mixed with fentanyl, stimulants or counterfeit pills. It may be up to 10× more potent than fentanyl & may require multiple doses of naloxone in an overdose: https://loom.ly/FVpsxOU
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialRARC’s new collaboration with Partnership to End Addiction was featured in Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly, highlighting efforts to move addiction research into real-world practice and make emerging science more useful to families, professionals, and communities: https://loom.ly/qcanG3I
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialApplications are open for RARC’s NIAAA-funded TRACE Postdoctoral Training Program, offering mentorship, advanced methodological training, professional development & interdisciplinary alcohol research experience. Apply by Nov. 15: https://loom.ly/_M2PJCE
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialRARC trainees 📣 Interested in building your mentoring skills? Take 2–3 minutes to tell us which mentoring activities, formats, and leadership roles interest you most through RARC’s NIDA- and NIAAA-funded training programs: https://loom.ly/PPSTDQU
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialRARC is seeking translational project ideas that can move addiction research toward real-world impact—from implementation and scale-up to partnerships, commercialization, policy, and practice change.
Priority deadline: October 10
🔗 Learn more: https://loom.ly/dh74Ngs
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialRARC trainees: interested in building your mentoring skills? 🎓 Take 2–3 minutes to tell us which mentoring activities, formats, and leadership roles interest you most through RARC’s NIDA- and NIAAA-funded training programs: https://loom.ly/PPSTDQU
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialAddiction science is moving into real-world student support at Rutgers.
All About U, developed by RARC + Rutgers–New Brunswick Student Affairs, brings personalized, science-based prevention to ~8,000 incoming students this fall.
Read the full story: https://loom.ly/b1eszHo
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialCongrats to the 2026 RARC Fall Symposium Poster Award winners!
🏆 Eden Lee – Undergraduate
🏆 Utsav Gyawali – Neuroscience
🏆 Luke Poole – Clinical
Thank you to all of our trainees and researchers who shared their work at this year’s symposium!
Learn more: loom.ly/FSuLFRY
@jsadjournal.bsky.socialReposted by @rutgersarc.bsky.socialThe future of PTSD and addiction research may be hidden in data we already have (new @jsadjournal.bsky.social FastTakes post)
by Denise A. Hien, Steven Curto, Nancy Kassam-Adams....
@nancyka.bsky.social @rutgersarc.bsky.social @rti.bsky.social @ohsunews.bsky.social
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialApplications are open for RARC’s NIAAA-funded TRACE Postdoctoral Training Program, offering mentorship, advanced methodological training, professional development & interdisciplinary alcohol research experience. Apply by Nov. 15: https://loom.ly/_M2PJCE
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialCould ovarian hormones influence how addiction vulnerability changes over time? New RARC work from Francesca LoFaro & Anna Konova proposes a framework linking estradiol and progesterone with reward, learning and decision-making processes.
https://loom.ly/iAadg_U
@rutgersarc.bsky.social📢 Call for Papers: A new Frontiers in Neuroscience special issue, co-edited by RARC member David Barker, PhD, is seeking research on hypothalamic circuits in motivation, reward, addiction & compulsion.
Learn more: https://loom.ly/CgXpUKE
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialJoin us for the first meeting of the RARC College Substance Use Special Interest Group!
📅 Wednesday, September 9 | 2–3 p.m. | Virtual
Learn more: https://loom.ly/jHHuZps
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialA new #RARC #ResearchSpotlight examines how motives for alcohol and cannabis use can shift from day to day among college students. Days with many overlapping motives were linked to some of the highest use, co-use, and negative consequences. Read the full research spotlight: https://loom.ly/Kp-0eDI
@rutgersarc.bsky.socialA recent article on today’s online gambling landscape references earlier work by Lia Nower, Director of the Center for Gambling Studies, and fellow researchers—highlighting why transparent, responsible information matters.
Read more: https://loom.ly/WXWZCZg
