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January 2022 0

Empathy, Brain Science Fuel Addiction Research

Brown senior studies the neurobiological underpinnings of alcohol and substance abuse disorders with the goal of enabling more effective treatments.

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More than 30 fourth-year Warren Alpert medical students will gain the training required to prescribe mediation-assisted therapy in an effort to address the opioid epidemic.

July 2017 0

New Program Trains Med Students to Treat Addiction

First-in-the-nation program will teach fourth-year students to prescribe mediation-assisted therapy for opioid use disorder.

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A new study describes how stress-related relapse to cocaine is sustained in the brain and a pathway that can be exploited to shut it back down.

April 2017 0

Bait and Switch

Stress flips cocaine relapse to ‘on,’ research switches it back to ‘off.’

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Though patients prescribed NSAIDs were no more likely to report persistent pain six weeks after a car crash than those prescribed opioids, the opioids were more likely to still be in use, raising concerns about dependence. Photo courtesy Pixabay

December 2016 0

Opioids, NSAIDs No Different for Chronic Pain after Crashes

But after 6 weeks, patients given opioids were more likely to still be taking them.

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Anshul Parulkar '10 MD'18 walks to the case study room where students will examine a standardized patient with an opioid addiction.

April 2016 0

Students Learn to Care for Opioid-using Patients

Amid epidemic, Rhode Island health care students get real-world training.

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  Congratulations to members of the MD Class of 2024, who will be receiving their white coats this morning. You can watch a livestream of the ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. @GoldFdtn ow.ly/MhFN50IWlE2
  
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  Join us TODAY at 4 p.m. for a conversation between cancer survivor Gil Rodgers and his Legorreta Cancer Center and Lifespan Cancer Institute-based care team about access to cutting-edge cancer treatment. Gil will take us through his treatment course in Boston and what ultimately led him to seek out a clinical trial at Lifespan that vastly improved his prognosis. Please register to receive the Zoom link for the webinar: events.brown.edu/biomed/event/233811-1 ... See MoreSee Less
  
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