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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 […]
May 12, 2022
Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (May 12, 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 […]
January 10, 2022
Dr. Jennifer Sharpe Potter, Vice President for Research/Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is quoted in this story. Read More Additional media coverage: https://www.itemonline.com/texas/advocates-hope-new-funding-will-help-end-texas-opioid-epidemic/article_fe524fde-34ff-5500-80f9-9d9ed0cd0b32.html https://www.weatherforddemocrat.com/texas/advocates-hope-new-funding-will-help-end-texas-opioid-epidemic/article_c1a703fe-444c-56cc-89ad-c894e413bac6.html https://www.normantranscript.com/news/advocates-hope-funding-will-help-end-opioid-epidemic/article_4d10816d-38ad-5676-8345-49809584c036.html https://www.cnhinews.com/cnhi/article_115964c0-6f3b-11ec-a479-a76a2eb8892b.html
November 19, 2021
In partnership with UT Health San Antonio, Be Well Texas, a new statewide addiction medicine treatment option, has launched virtual services for those seeking recovery from substance use disorders and mental health challenges.
