Top addiction researcher Nora Volkow on NIH cuts, optimism and the limits of RFK Jr.’s 12-step experience
In a Q&A, NIH addiction chief Nora Volkow speaks about RFK Jr.'s policy shake-ups, 12-step recovery limits, and why overdose deaths are falling.
BETHESDA, MD — Nora Volkow, the federal government’s top drug addiction researcher, laughed when asked how a spate of recent policy changes at the National Institutes of Health had affected her day-to-day work.
“They have increased my blood pressure and heart rate,” Volkow said before declining to answer specific questions about Trump administration policy changes, instead referring them to the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH’s parent agency.
