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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 […]


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