{"id":66706,"date":"2019-04-19T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T14:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=66706"},"modified":"2019-04-19T13:58:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:58:33","slug":"news-sun-wright-state-university-joins-federal-effort-aimed-at-reducing-opioid-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/04\/19\/news-sun-wright-state-university-joins-federal-effort-aimed-at-reducing-opioid-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Sun: Wright State University joins federal effort aimed at reducing opioid deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"full-width with-dateline\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44532\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2017\/03\/wright-state-2017-logo-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/>Wright State University will team up with experts from five other universities \u2013 including Ohio State \u2013 to join a federal effort aimed at reducing opioid deaths by 40 percent over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar II Thursday announced that Ohio State will receive a $65.9 million federal research grant as part of more than $350 million for a larger study aimed at reducing opioid deaths.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ohio State will lead a consortium in the state including WSU that will use real-time research to target prevention, treatment and recovery programs. The Ohio study will focus on 19 Ohio counties including Greene and Darke counties. Other counties in the state include: Allen, Ashtabula, Athens, Brown, Cuyahoga, Franklin, Guernsey, Hamilton, Huron, Jefferson, Lucas, Morrow, Ross, Scioto, Stark, Williams and Wyandot.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio consortium will bring together experts from six universities \u2014 Ohio State, University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio University, University of Toledo and Wright State \u2014 as well as leaders from state agencies and community organizations. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine\u2019s administration is also part of the research consortium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.springfieldnewssun.com\/news\/local\/wright-state-university-joins-federal-effort-aimed-reducing-opioid-deaths\/BEi4QE3JhJD1WC7N6xk2HL\/\">Read the story from the Springfield News-Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University will team up with experts from five other universities \u2013 including Ohio State \u2013 to join a federal effort aimed at reducing opioid deaths by 40 percent over the next three years. Health and Human Services Secretary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/04\/19\/news-sun-wright-state-university-joins-federal-effort-aimed-at-reducing-opioid-deaths\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":44532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66730,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66706\/revisions\/66730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}