Greg Collins, PhD

Associate Professor

The Collins Laboratory is broadly focused on investigating mechanisms that underly the abuse-related and toxic effects of commonly co-used drugs. We utilize highly quantitative behavioral procedures as well as radio-telemetric assessments of cardiorespiratory endpoints to determine how the pharmacological effects of co-used drugs interact to promote patterns of polysubstance use and/or enhance adverse effects associated with overdose. Ultimately, through a better understanding of the factors driving polysubstance use we seek to develop novel (poly)pharmacy approaches to more effectively reverse multi-drug overdoses and treat individuals from suffering from (poly)subtance use disorders.

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