Researchers at the Long School of Medicine and at the University of Bath, U.K., are developing a long-lasting anti-opioid drug to protect against an overdose for a few weeks or longer.

Jennifer Sharpe Potter, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of psychiatry and vice dean for research in the Long School of Medicine, is quoted about the opioid crises in the Latinx community. She explained while racial biases of prescribers and limited income of patients may have “protected” Latinos from having access to prescriptions for pain, it also limited […]

The new initiative aims to change how opioid use disorder is treated in Texas.

Dr. Jennifer Sharpe Potter is leading the statewide collaborative, called Texas Medication for Opioid Use Disorder.