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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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