KSAT 12: New local study on jaw pain may help replace opioids with safer pain medication
January 25, 2023
Armen Akopian, PhD, Endodontics, was interviewed for this news segment. Read More
UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry awarded $9.8 million NIH grant that could help curb opioid use
January 23, 2023
Study of jaw-joint sensory neurons aimed at creating safer pain treatment The UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry has received a major five-year, $9.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to discover how sensory neurons in the jaw joint and mastication muscles influence and create pain, which could lead to safer drug […]
UT Health San Antonio awarded $1.8 million NIH grant for research in addiction recovery support services
December 13, 2022
With the U.S. grappling with an unprecedented opioid-related overdose crisis, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) was awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research peer recovery support services for people living with opioid use disorder. While medication for opioid use […]
UT Health San Antonio’s Be Well Texas to expand opioid use disorder services to all of the state’s rural counties
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 […]
School of Nursing provides Narcan to Bexar County Sheriff’s Office
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 […]
School of Nursing professor’s SUD research gives hope to women and their families
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 […]