Carrie Wade, PhD, is a senior fellow and the harm reduction policy director for the R Street Institute, where she is responsible for directing R Street’s harm reduction agenda, including opioids, tobacco and sexual health.
She previously worked as a drug researcher at the University of Minnesota and the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. She received her bachelor’s in Neuroscience and PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Minnesota, and a master’s in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
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