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June 15, 2020
Lisa Cleveland, PhD, RN, CPNP, IBCLC, FAAN, School of Nursing, discusses her recent study analyzing the factors that contribute to expectant mothers and new mothers to use opioids, which also is related to neonatal abstinence disorder in their babies. Read and watch the full story.
May 29, 2020
Jennifer Potter, Ph.D., M.P.H., a professor of psychiatry and vice dean for research in the Long School of Medicine, was interviewed about the settlement of the state’s opioid lawsuit. Read and watch the full story.
April 14, 2020
Interview of UT Health San Antonio pharmacology professor Charles France, Ph.D., is carried by WQAD-TV, Moline, IL., on the topic of Your Health: Something better than Naloxone. Read and watch the story.
March 10, 2020
Researchers are developing an anti-opioid drug to protect against overdose for weeks or longer.
March 9, 2020
Scientists developing medication to help substance users for weeks Naloxone (brand name Narcan®) currently is used to rescue people from opioid overdose, but the protection is transient, lasting an hour or less. Opioid effects can persist for several hours, however, which puts the individual at risk of overdose re-emerging as effects of naloxone wear off. […]
