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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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  "Change how you see, see how you change." A phrase which at first glance appears to be simple but, upon deeper consideration, connotes a broader impact.This is true for photographer and Positive Exposure founder Rick Guidotti's latest exhibition that features several individuals living with autism. At first glance, the images seem to exude the joy his subjects feel when connecting with another about their passions, but it is when the viewer stops to consider their own reflection in the images' glossy sheen that the deeper meaning of the work shines brightest.Through his camera lens, Guidotti has spent decades working to redefine beauty by celebrating a shared humanity with his subjects. In partnership with the Prisma Research Group, he has striven to raise awareness about the importance of individual perspectives and their ability to strengthen a community beyond a diagnosis.The free exhibit will hang in the Medical School's Atrium through December 14. ... See MoreSee Less
  
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