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NIH Awards TCU’s Institute of Behavioral Research $7.2 Million Grant


The grant supports TCU researchers’ ongoing work with ‘deflection’ strategies that support local law enforcement and first responders as well as better help people with unmet substance use needs.  

When opioid addiction first entered the national conversation, it was portrayed as a problem of individual Americans. Health officials now agree America is dealing with a national public health crisis around opioids.   

For Jenny Becan, a senior research scientist at TCU’s Institute for Behavioral Research (IBR), the top-line goal of all her work is to help speed the development and implementation of scientific solutions to national problems for the benefit of our communities… Read the Full Article 

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    Study Links Prison-Based Therapeutic Communities to Lower Recidivism

    A study co-authored by Pamela Carey, associate research scientist at the Institute of Behavioral Research (IBR) at TCU, found that people who received substance use treatment in prison-based therapeutic communities had lower rates of arrest and reincarceration after release. Published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology, the study evaluated therapeutic community programs at two Illinois…

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  • IBR Shares Proactive Approach to Research Compliance at SOCRA Conference

    The Institute of Behavioral Research (IBR) is shifting from reacting to compliance problems to preventing them, an approach Crystal Moran, public health research associate for regulatory compliance at IBR, presented at the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA) Annual Conference in Denver. Her poster, “From Reactive to Proactive: Applying the Plan-Do-Study-Act Framework to Build an…

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  • First-Year Frogs Get an Inside Look at IBR

    The Institute of Behavioral Research welcomed first-year TCU students to IBR during its Frogs First Open House, giving students an introduction to behavioral health research and the SOAR Lab… Read the Full Article

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