Campbell/Spillane Substance Use Research - Interview with George Bigelow

Abstract

George E. Bigelow, PhD is Professor of Behavioral Biology and Director of the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit (BPRU) at Johns Hopkins University School for Public Health, a multi-faceted clinical research program dealing with the interaction between environmental/behavioral factors and pharmacological factors, and specializing in studies of substance abuse and its treatment. He directs the Unit’s postdoctoral research training program and has overall responsibility for planning, oversight and supervision of the major elements of BPRU’s research resources—a recruitment and assessment screening program for enrolling volunteers with appropriate substance use/abuse histories; operation of a 14-bed residential research facility; operation of a 175-slot outpatient substance abuse treatment research clinic; traininng and supervision of research fellows and research staff in conduct of behavioral medicine-related and substance abuse-related clinical research.