Robert Valuck, a professor of pharmacy at the University of Colorado Skagg’s School of Pharmacy, says it’s a start when it comes to fighting the opioid epidemic. “It’s the immediate stopgap because we have to plug this drain because we have too many people circling this drain and being lost in this country,” says Valuck.
Robert Valuk discusses Kratom, a folk remedy, that has opioid-like effects at high doses.
Dr. Rob Valuck, a professor at the CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, discussed the high price of a drug used to fight opioid addiction.
The FRA plans to add to the Anschutz Medical Campus with a Bioscience Innovation Building, a 110,000-square foot, three story building. The FRA is currently negotiating with bioscience startup companies for 70-percent of the building. The campus currently supports 22,000 jobs but that could grow to 40,000 over the next 15 years. The FRA says the University of Colorado will likely expand its facilities. Rezoning efforts over the last couple of years allows for an additional 850 housing units to be built bringing the campus total to 1,450.
Robert Valuck, a pharmaceutical professor from the University of Colorado, and the director of the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention, said it was important for the situation to be declared a public health emergency. “We’re already doing some things already, and so I think time will tell how effective this declaration is and how much it really helps, especially in states like in Colorado,” Valuck said.
