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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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  Physician-scientist Dr. Mukesh K. Jain has been appointed dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown. A cardiovascular specialist and health care leader at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Dr. Jain will lead biomedical research and education, and serve as Warren Alpert Medical School dean. ... See MoreSee Less
  
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