KSAT 12: New local study on jaw pain may help replace opioids with safer pain medication
January 25, 2023
Armen Akopian, PhD, Endodontics, was interviewed for this news segment. Read More
San Antonio Express-News: $9.8 million grant fuels UT Health research on jaw pain with eye on ending opioid dependency
January 24, 2023
Armen Akopian, PhD, Endodontics, was quoted in this story. Read More
UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry awarded $9.8 million NIH grant that could help curb opioid use
January 23, 2023
Study of jaw-joint sensory neurons aimed at creating safer pain treatment The UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry has received a major five-year, $9.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to discover how sensory neurons in the jaw joint and mastication muscles influence and create pain, which could lead to safer drug […]
Community Impact: UT Health San Antonio awarded $1.8M federal grant for research in addiction recovery support services
December 21, 2022
Jennifer Sharpe Potter, PhD, MPH, vice president for research, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and executive director, Be Well Texas, and Adrienne Lindsey, MA, DBH, assistant professor/research and director, Center for Substance Use Training & Telementoring, were quoted in this story. Read More
KSAT 12: Alamo Center staying busy with opioid epidemic
December 19, 2022
Jennifer Sharpe Potter, PhD, MPH, vice president for research and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and executive director, Be Well Texas, was quoted in this news story. Read More
UT Health San Antonio awarded $1.8 million NIH grant for research in addiction recovery support services
December 13, 2022
With the U.S. grappling with an unprecedented opioid-related overdose crisis, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) was awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research peer recovery support services for people living with opioid use disorder. While medication for opioid use […]