Primary Recipient

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Amount

$411,004.00

Award Date

5/21/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The increasing trend in the addiction to opioids is a problem of critical importance during pregnancy. New options for substitution therapies in pregnant opioid addicts include buprenorphine, a mu-opioid receptor partial agonist and kappaopioid receptor a