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Rhode Island Gets $11-Million Grant for Drug Fight

Rhode Island has been awarded a five-year, $11-million federal grant for substance-abuse prevention work. Dr. Stephen Buka, epidemiologist and developmental psychologist and chair of the epidemiology department at the Brown University School of Public Health, will be co-chair of the research group looking at prescription drug use.