USCRF Board of Directors Meeting
February 2004
Addictions Research (MUSC, USC)
•Addiction
to alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs of abuse, as well as gambling and high calorie foods is a
significant medical and social problem in the State of South Carolina.
•Drug
addiction is a prime contributor to the fact that South Carolina leads the nation in traffic fatalities
and is the near the bottom in high school retention.
•Recent
advances in understanding the neurobiology of addiction are attracting unprecedented amounts of
investment dollars from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.