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New UTEP Research Center to Target Opioid Abuse on the Texas-Mexico Border

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. COVID-19
  2. Health Technology/Telehealth
  3. violence prevention
  4. minority women's health
  5. mental health
  6. Program Evaluation
  7. Substance Use Disorder
  8. Minority Health Disparities
  9. Global Health

Featured Researcher(s):

Mangadu, Thenral
College: Health Sciences
Department: Public Health Sciences
New UTEP Research Center to Target Opioid Abuse on the Texas-Mexico Border
Date: July 25, 2019



A road trip through West Texas' border counties last summer exposed Thenral Mangadu, M.D., Ph.D., to the challenges that rural communities face to combat opioid use disorder (OUD). As opioid-related deaths rise across the United States, rural areas have been hit especially hard. According to The Pew Charitable Trusts, the rate of drug overdose deaths in rural areas surpassed the rate in urban areas in 2015.


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