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Most Hospital ERs Won’t Treat Your Addiction. These Will.
Thousands of people with drug addiction and related illnesses go to hospital emergency departments every day. Most doctors refer them to an addiction specialist — but that’s starting to change.
Source: PEW
21 Sep 2018
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Your Teen Is Underestimating the Health Risks of Vaping
Young people may think that vaping does no harm—and that's a problem.
Source: Yale Medicine
13 Sep 2018
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The Ongoing Battle Against Addiction
Earlier this month, within a 24-hour period, scores of people in New Haven were exposed to a blend of synthetic cannabinoids, presenting with symptoms that closely resembled those of an opioid overdose.
Source: Yale News
31 Aug 2018
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Emergency medicine experts lead national effort to reduce harm from opioids
Emergency medicine experts lead national effort to reduce harm from opioids
16 Apr 2018
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Study finds few restrictions on Rx opioids through Medicare
Medicare plans place few restrictions on the coverage of prescription opioids, despite federal guidelines recommending such restrictions, a new Yale study finds.
Source: Yale News
9 Oct 2017
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New Yale collaboration aims to reduce opioid abuse
Yale New Haven Health and Yale School of Medicine have launched a partnership with the State of Connecticut and Appriss Health in an innovative effort to combat the opioid overdose crisis.
5 Sep 2017
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Camenga appointed to AAP Committee on Substance Use and Prevention
Press Release: Dr. Deepa Camenga appointed to the AAP Committee on Substance Use and Prevention
17 Aug 2017
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Project ASSERT marks 17 years helping patients access drug and alcohol treatment
Project ASSERT, a collaboration between the Emergency Department at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health, marked its 17th anniversary this spring.
9 May 2017
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Connecticut ranks high in opioid-related visits to hospitals
With opioids in wide circulation, Dr. Gail D’Onofrio, chief of emergency medicine at the hospital and chairwoman of emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine, isn’t sure that one-day spike will stand as a record.
Source: New Haven Register
21 Mar 2017
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Patients with opioid addiction benefit from treatment initiated in ED
Patients addicted to opioids often seek care in the emergency department (ED). They are more likely to receive addiction treatment, and reduce opioid use long-term if they are started on medication to reduce cravings in the ED, according to a new Yale study.
13 Feb 2017
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Opioid Overdose: Emergency Treatment Is Crucial, but It's Not Enough
The opioid-blocking drug naloxone is a crucial first step, but there must be immediate follow-up to keep the cycle of addiction from continuing
Source: Scientific American
13 May 2016
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Yale physician's work highlighted at national summit attended by President Obama and NIH director
Fifth Annual National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit
27 Apr 2016
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Yale team honored for groundbreaking clinical research in emergency medicine
The Clinical Research Forum recognized Dr. Gail D’Onofrio and her team with a Clinical Research Achievement Award for producing one of the year’s ten most outstanding research papers.
Source: Yale News
19 Apr 2016
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Yale School of Medicine leaders advance addiction medicine
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), a national body that maintains the standards for physician certification, announced that it would include addiction medicine as an official subspecialty.
Source: Yale News
15 Mar 2016
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Connecticut Battles Opiate Addiction with Science
"A new clinical study is one way Connecticut is getting to the bottom of a serious problem that crosses all economic, social and racial boundaries - opiate addiction."
Source: Addiction Campuses
15 Jun 2015
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Emergency department treatment for opioid addiction better than referrals
Yale researchers conducted the first known randomized trial comparing three treatment strategies for opioid-dependent patients receiving emergency care. They found that patients given the medication buprenorphine were more likely to engage in addiction treatment and reduce their illicit opioid use.
28 Apr 2015
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Yale doc says addiction should be on physicians’ minds
Philip Seymour Hoffman dies with a syringe in his arm and addiction is back in the news. That shouldn’t be the case, according to Dr. Patrick G. O’Connor, new president of the American Board of Addiction Medicine, who believes every doctor should have addiction in mind when treating patients.
Source: New Haven Register
11 Feb 2014
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Five-minute intervention can help patients with substance and behavioral problems
A brief 5 to 10 minute intervention in an emergency department can provide effective help to patients with substance and behavioral problems, and should be broadly implemented, say the authors of a new Yale study. Their recommendations appear in the December issue of Health Affairs.
9 Dec 2013
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WHRY Offers Roadmap to Address Sex Differences in Opioid Epidemic
To help halt the ongoing addiction and overdose deaths, Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY) is now proposing a data-driven way forward to uncover and more effectively negotiate differences among women and men in opioid use.
12 Jan 2021
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The Risks of Another Epidemic: Teenage Vaping
While most of us strive to avoid inhaling aerosols that could harbor a deadly virus, millions of teens and young adults are deliberately bathing their lungs in aerosols rich in chemicals with known or suspected health hazards.
Source: New York Times
23 Nov 2020