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December 2, 2022
UT Health San Antonio received a four-year, $2 million federal grant to expand its substance use disorder response program, Be Well Texas, to the state’s 178 rural counties with limited or no access to resources and support addressing opioid addiction. With the Health Resources and Services Administration grant, Be Well Texas will lead and assist […]
November 7, 2022
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar stopped by the UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing on Oct. 27 to receive 96 doses of Narcan®, a nasal spray that can rescue individuals who have experienced accidental opioid poisoning. The School of Nursing provides training to first responders on the use of Narcan and has distributed […]
September 9, 2022
Lisa M. Cleveland, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, IBCLC, FAAN, professor in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant, whose career began in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), had dreamed of becoming a nurse for […]
September 1, 2022
Loading her car full of medical supplies, flyers and Narcan, School of Nursing student Brieanna Flowers-Joseph, MSN, APRN, CPNP, works with the Street Medicine and Nursing teams to meet individuals where they are: under bridges, at pop-up tents along Zarzamora Street or in homeless encampments in downtown San Antonio.
June 13, 2022
The School of Nursing has received $16 million from the Texas Department of Health and Human Services to expand its successful Casa Mia recovery program for pregnant and parenting mothers with opioid use disorder and their children, and expand these services to women with any type of substance use disorder.
May 13, 2022
Despite scientific evidence that the medication buprenorphine/naloxone (or Suboxone) effectively treats opioid use disorder (OUD), only one-sixth of Texas clinicians surveyed in 2019 and early 2020 said they were prescribing the lifesaving medication, according to a study from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) published May 12 in JAMA Network […]
