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Warren Bickel, a professor at the Fralin Institute for Biomedical Research, is working to provide a scientific understanding
of rehabilitation and relapse with the help of a new grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Photo by Clayton Metz for Virginia Tech
.
Researchers typically study how people recover
from drug use disorders that require medical attention.
For many, however, rehabilitation is not just about reducing or abstaining from drug use
to improve health, well-being and quality of life.
It may include multiple relapses that take years
.
Now, to gain a more complete understanding of the rehabilitation process, addiction rehabilitation scientists at VTC at the Flynlin Institute for Biomedical Research at Virginia Tech have taken their sights even further
.
"Our goal is to provide a scientific understanding of recovery and relapse and to set new goals for future relapse prevention interventions," said Warren Bickel, a professor at the Flynn Institute for Biomedical Research and director of
the Institute's Center for Addiction Recovery and its Center for Health Behavior 。 As an authority on addictive behavior, Bickel has begun work on a new $3.
5 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the rehabilitation process
.
The researchers will look at addiction recovery by decision-making mechanisms, exploring whether addiction and relapse stem from an imbalance between the impulse system and the executive system, and how this imbalance affects psychosocial functioning
.
"Rehabilitation is a multi-dimensional process that varies from person to person
.
" Bickel said he is also a professor in
the psychology department of the Faculty of Science.
"For a person, rehabilitation may not require the use of alcohol or any other drugs
at all.
For another person, it may be to reduce the frequency of drinking alcohol and improve the quality of
life.
Our goal is to collect data from a wide variety of experiences from people from all walks of life and examine the process of
rehabilitation, relapse, psychosocial functioning and treatment.
”
The online database is suitable for long-term, repetitive measurement studies
for this project.
In addition, scientists will compare individuals
with different years of rehabilitation.
