12:04 p.m., April 9, 2008--James Inciardi, professor of criminal justice at UD and co-director of UD's Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies (in the Miami, Fla., office), will give a talk on prescription drug abuse at 4 p.m., Thursday, April 10, in 100 Wolf Hall.

Inciardi, who also is a professor in the departments of sociology and criminal justice and epidemiology and public health at the University of Miami School of Medicine, as well as a guest professor in the department of psychiatry at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, has more than 35 years of experience in the drug field and has done extensive consulting work both nationally and internationally.

Formerly the director of the National Center for the Study of Acute Drug Reactions at the University of Miami and the associate director of research for the New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission, Inciardi has published more than 400 articles, chapters, books and monographs on substance abuse, criminology, criminal justice, history, folklore, public policy, AIDS, medicine and law. He is a member of the Internal Advisory Committee in the Executive Office of the President in the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

The free talk, which is open to the public, is cosponsored by UD's Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies and the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. For more information, call (302) 831-3204.