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Women Whose Partners are Problem Drinkers Studied
10/2/20
Women whose partners are problem drinkers are the focus of a clinical trial being conducted by principal investigator Robert G. Rychtarik, PhD, senior research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry.
Faculty, Residents, Students, Staff Get Awards of Excellence
9/1/20
Faculty members, residents, medical students and a staff member were among the recipients of 2020 Awards of Excellence for promoting inclusion and cultural diversity at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
142 Posters Presented at Celebration of Scholarship
6/23/20
Two medical fellows, four medical residents and two medical students earned honors for outstanding poster presentations at the Office of Graduate Medical Education’s second annual Celebration of Scholarship.

Family Medicine In The News

Doscher Treats Substance Use Amid Pandemic [Spectrum News]
9/8/20
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 6,000 mental health professionals volunteered to help meet the needs of New Yorkers — including Tildabeth Doscher, MD, clinical assistant professor of family medicine. Doscher brought the hub and spoke model — an opiate treatment model started in Vermont — to Western New York. Hubs are facilities that intensively focus on opioid use disorder treatment options, and spokes are facilities that integrate addictions care into primary health care.
Blondell Provides Expertise on Addiction and Relapse [The List]
7/13/20
An article about the television show “Intervention” explains that pressuring an addict to agree to go to rehab may be more dangerous than leaving that person to fend for themselves. If a person is not fully motivated to recover, they are more likely to relapse, and the physical impact of using after detox is quite taxing on an addict’s already-fragile body. “When a relapse occurs, someone may take a dose that they think is going to be effective — and it may even be half of what they were taking before — but because they've lost their tolerance, those tend to be lethal,” says Richard D. Blondell, MD, professor of family medicine.
How the Law Should Handle the Opioid Epidemic [MD Magazine]
3/23/20
MD Magazine carried a piece by Richard D. Blondell, MD, professor emeritus of family medicine, regarding steps that America can take to deal with the opioid epidemic through treatment and prevention.