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November 19, 2020
Lisa Cleveland, PhD, RN, FAAN, School of Nursing, was interviewed about the Bexar County Joint Opioid Task Force’s Harm Reduction initiative, which she co-leads and received funding to support through UT Health San Antonio. Read and watch the story.
November 17, 2020
Dr. Lisa Cleveland, associate professor in the School of Nursing, was interviewed for this story about building a new Women’s Wellness Campus to expand her program, Casa Mia, which provides recovery housing and programs for pregnant and parenting mothers with opioid use disorder. Read and watch the story.
November 17, 2020
Dr. Lisa Cleveland, associate professor in the School of Nursing, was interviewed for this story about building a new Women’s Wellness Campus to expand her program, Casa Mia, which provides recovery housing and programs for pregnant and parenting mothers with opioid use disorder. Read and watch the story.
October 22, 2020
Jennifer Potter, PhD, MPH, and the $12 million grantt she received to fight the opioid epidemic, are mentioned in this story. Dr. Potter is a professor of psychiatry, vice dean for research in the School of Medicine and associate vice president for South Texas Public Health Initiatives. Read the story.
June 25, 2020
Breaking the cycle is the emphasis of a recent study published in the medical journal Addiction by Dr. Lisa Cleveland, School of Nursing. The study shows that new moms who relapse often had troubled childhoods. “They had experienced events such as losing a loved one to violence, so whether that was suicide or an accident,” […]
June 22, 2020
Dr. Jennifer Sharpe Potter, PhD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and vice dean for research in the Long School of Medicine, says it’s not surprising to see the uptick in opioid overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic. She explains the pandemic brought two key ingredients that can lead to overdoses: social isolation and financial woes. Her team […]