Nora Volkow

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 16, 746 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrd.2017.215 Nearly 35,000 Americans die each year due to opioid overdose, around the same number that die in car crashes. Despite attempts from doctors and policy makers to quell this epidemic, the rate of overdose death continues to rise. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and Francis Collins, Director of the NIH, announced earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine that the NIH is working with industry and regulatory partners to set up a public–private partnership (PPP) that will accelerate the discovery and development of new non-addictive analgesics, overdose-reversal agents and anti-addiction treatments in an attempt to stem the tide. Volkow spoke with Asher Mullard about her ambitious goal to halve the development timeline for these types of drug.
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