### Adolescent Substance Use Research

- [ Research Projects](#research-projects)
 
  Our research focuses on reducing the harms related to youth substance use. Specifically, we are conducting research related to implementing harm reduction and overdose prevention using community-engaged methods.

Learn more about the [Youth Advocacy and Research Collaborative (YARC)](/youth-advocacy-research-collaborative "Youth Advocacy and Research Collaborative (YARC) | Boston Medical Center (bmc.org)").

[Explore All Pediatric Research Programs](/node/178218 "Department of Pediatrics: Pediatric Specialty Care: Pediatric Research | Boston Medical Center (bmc.org)")

## Our Team

### Contact

- Sarah Bagley  
    Principal Investigator  
    <sarah.bagley@bmc.org>
- Sarah Kosakowski  
    Project Manager  
    <sarah.kosakowski@bmc.org>

### Investigators

**Department of Pediatrics** **and Medicine**

- [Sarah Bagley, MD, MSc](https://profiles.bu.edu/Sarah.Bagley)
- [Sonia Taneja, MD, MSc](https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/profile/sonia-taneja/)

**Department of Psychiatry**

- [Amy Yule, MD](https://profiles.bu.edu/Amy.Yule)

**Department of Medicine**

- [Alexander Walley, MD, MSc](https://profiles.bu.edu/Alexander.Walley)



 ## Research Projects

1. A Universal Primary Care Based Intervention to Reduce Overdose Risk (R61DA062217) Bagley, Yule (MPI)
2. The Youth Empowerment Study (R211DA062256) Bagley, Greene (MPI)
3. Integrating responses to stimulant overdose among post-overdose programs, (R01 CE003357- 01)
4. [PRONTO](<https://prontopostoverdose.org >)