Psychology

It’s Valentine’s Day and you’re sitting there scrolling through your various social media feeds pondering what love is. Yes, it’s a crazy thing we, humans, call love, and often times, it’s hard to put into words in an attempt to describe the feeling. So...

The Medical Cannabis Research Fund (MCRF) at the University of New Mexico was created by Associate Professor Jacob Vigil in the Department of Psychology to support wide-ranging scientific research on medical Cannabis across all areas of the social and...

It’s a problem of huge proportions affecting millions in the United States and worldwide. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol use disorder (AUD) is defined as problem drinking that becomes severe. In the United...

Barbara McCrady, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and Director of UNM's Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA), received the Research Society on Alcoholism RSA Marlatt Mentorship Award at the RSA’s annual meeting in New...

The use of medical marijuana for millions of patients suffering from a wide range of health conditions and the subsequent therapeutic benefits has long been documented. Twenty-three states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam, have determined...

With one of the highest drug overdose death rates in the country, New Mexico is now looking to college campuses to affect change in surrounding communities. A new, first-of-its-kind effort designed to curb prescription drug opioid use and underage...

University of New Mexico student Maria Mendez will graduate this May. Even after losing her father to suicide, she pushed to finish college. Mendez came to UNM from Pomona, Calif. She attended CEP orientation and got in contact with an advisor who was ...

The Campus Office for Substance Abuse Prevention, or COSAP, at the University of New Mexico is working to make campus a more welcoming place for students recovering from drug or alcohol abuse.

The University of New Mexico hosts a talk by Alice Dreger titled, “Galileo’s Middle Finger: Why Social Progress Depends on the Protection of Academic Freedom,” Thursday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. in Anthropology rm. 163. Dreger is an historian of medicine and...

To raise awareness of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), University of New Mexico Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA) FAS Prevention Program invites students, faculty and staff to wear red shoes or red socks on Wednesday, Sept. 9,...