Surgery after a basketball injury in 2014 left Northeastern student Sade Iriah hobbling around campus and managing her pain with prescription painkillers.
It also opened her to a whole new career — thanks to the university’s Center for Translational NeuroImaging lab.
“It was really just great timing,” Irish recalls. “I ‘crutched’ into class and the topic of the day was opioids, and it was just so applicable to my life — I just needed to know more. What are these opioids doing to me?”
A decade later, Iriah’s work with the CTNI lab has resulted in multiple journal articles focused on addiction and opioids and how drugs affect the body; three Northeastern degrees — a 2016 bachelor’s in behavioral neuroscience; a 2019 master’s in public health; and a 2023 Ph.D. in psychology with a specialization in behavioral neuroscience.
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