Basak Tas

Research Fellow

Biography

Dr Basak Tas is a Research Fellow based at the National Addictions Centre (NAC) of Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. Her current interests are in developing better clinical and policy responses to opioid-related mortality and morbidity. Her current work focusses on investigating, developing and understanding novel technologies that can detect overdose and respiratory depression through laboratory clinical studies and non-clinical studies. Basak has worked closely within the addictions field for over 12 years, previously working at the UK drugs charity Release.