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As rates of drugs laced with fentanyl pose threats to those who use drugs, several researchers at UNC focus on harm reduction. Part of this is access to Naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an overdose.&nbsp&#x3B;

With new grant funding, Nabarun Dasgupta ’13 (Ph.D.), Gillings Innovation Fellow at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and senior scientist at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, will work with colleagues across Caroli

Led by Nabarun Dasgupta, researchers from across the University will work with seven community-based harm reduction programs from all regions of North Carolina to conduct the first-ever street drug assessment focused on public health, backed by sophisticated machine learning techniques.

With new grant funding, Nabarun Dasgupta '13 (Ph.D.), Gillings Innovation Fellow at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and senior scientist at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, will work with colleagues across Carolina to develop systems to detect and issue public warnings about dangerous adulterants in street drugs.