Rachel Winograd

Dr. Rachel Winograd's research pursuits and intellectual interests focus on aspects of alcohol and drug misuse, consequences, treatment, and risk mitigation. Throughout the course of her graduate career at the University of Missouri-Columbia, she developed a program of research investigating the existence and characterization of “drunk personality.” Outside of projects examining acute alcohol intoxication and personality, she concurrently examined young adult alcohol misuse from a developmental and clinical perspective, publishing on topics such as maturing out of alcohol misuse, the role of impulsiveness in drinking behaviors, and empirically-supported treatments for young adults with problematic drinking. During her pre-doctoral psychology internship with the VA St Louis Health Care System, Dr. Winograd's focus shifted swiftly to opioid-use disorder treatment and overdose prevention. She has since devoted the majority of her energy to her clinical, programmatic, and empirical efforts to expand the implementation of evidence-based opioid treatment and harm-reduction approaches, namely the use of buprenorphine and methadone maintenance medications and community-based naloxone distribution programming. Dr. Winograd looks forward to developing, implementing, evaluating, and refining scientifically rigorous programs for substance use prevention, intervention, and harm-reduction practices on a national and global scale.