April Young is a professor of epidemiology and environmental health in the UK College of Public Health and faculty associate with the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research. Pete Comparoni | UK Photo

For more than a decade, UK College of Public Health researcher April Young, Ph.D., has been developing new methods to help and empathetically serve people struggling with substance use disorder to reduce some of the harm that they experience.

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