The Opioid Crisis in Ohio: Updates on the Opioid Epidemic in Ohio 2022 will be the topic for the next BGSU Science Café Tuesday, Sept. 20 from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
The session will be livestreamed. Free but registration required. Click to register.
Jon E. Sprague, RPh, PhD, BCI Eminent Scholar in The Ohio Attorney General’s Center for the Future of Forensic Sciences will talk about recent developments in Ohio’s opioid crisis.
The opioid overdose rate in the second quarter of 2020 was a new all-time peak in the state of Ohio. This session will focus on the patterns and trends seen in the opioid overdose rates in Ohio, examine the synthetic fentanyls most often attributed to these overdoses and discuss a state wide research effort to identify genetic factors associated with the development of opioid use disorder.
Science Café is series that highlights the important work being done by BGSU researchers that impacts the quality of life in our region, state, and world.
