Professor, School of Medicine

Affiliated Faculty Neuroscience

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scott.rawls@temple.edu 853 MERB 3500 N Broad St Philadelphia PA 19122

Dr. Rawls’ laboratory uses vertebrate (rats, mice) and invertebrate (planarians) models to investigate the pharmacology of drugs of abuse such as cocaine, amphetamines, opioids, and designer drugs. His work is focused on three main projects: the effects of glutamate transporter activators on rewarding, reinforcing, motivational, and drug-seeking effects of cocaine and opioids, characterization of the behavioral, neurochemical, cellular, and neurotoxic effects of designer cathinones contained in a street drug called ‘bath salts’, and the development of a hands-on, inquiry-based program/curriculum to teach the science of addiction and hazards of drug abuse to undergraduate, professional, and K-12 school students using a flatworm called planarians.