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Weekly Letter from Mary Woolley: Changing the lexicon

By Mary Woolley on November 20, 2018
Dear Research Advocate: Happy Thanksgiving Week! I’m writing early to give us all a holiday. Last Thursday and Friday, l capped off a week of visiting our members at the McKnight Brain Institute (MBI) and the Health Science Center at the University of Florida. Research!America Chair Emeritus, and former member of Congress, the Honorable John Edward Porter, joined me at a Town Hall session during which students, postdocs, faculty, and administrators asked about the best ways to make the case for research with the current and new Congress. At MBI we heard patient advocate extraordinaire Jennifer French, Neurotech Network Executive Director, forcefully articulate the importance of a needed “...
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The Value of Research and Prevention in Addressing the Societal Burden of Migraine

By Caitlin Grzeskowiak on June 15, 2017
Jaime Sanders has suffered from migraines since she was eight-years-old. Despite her chronic pain, she has “always managed to find the strength and will to move forward in life.” Sanders, a patient advocate and blogger, was joined by experts in different areas of migraine research and treatment to discuss the societal burden of this debilitating disease during a Research!America Capitol Hill briefing on June 15, 2017. Walter Koroshetz, M.D., director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), emphasized how the BRAIN initiative and current research have made significant progress in identifying causes of migraines. The research has led to a treatment currently...
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Public Health Implications of the Opioid Crisis

By Saul Levin, M.D., MPA on November 21, 2016
This blog post is part of a weekly series focusing on different aspects of public health leading up to Public Health Thank You Day on Monday, November 21, 2016. Join the conversation on social media with the hashtag #PHTYD and visit www.publichealththankyouday.org for more information. Deaths in the United States due to prescription and illicit opioid overdoses have quadrupled over the past 17 years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 78 Americans die each day from overdoses of drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone, and heroin. Over the course of the opioid crisis, sales of prescription opioids in the U.S. have nearly quadrupled , but the amount of...
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A Weekly Advocacy Message from Mary Woolley: Opioid week

By Mary Woolley on April 28, 2016
Dear Research Advocate: In the multi-faceted context of discouraging new data that shows an increasing incidence of suicide, rapidly rising prescription drug abuse, and widespread pain and suffering due to the heroin epidemic, the House is working on legislation to address opioid abuse , approving more than a dozen bills that will be packaged and considered on the floor in early May. This is important bipartisan progress in combating challenges of frightening scope, extending beyond addressing addiction and abuse to effectively meeting the challenge of chronic pain. Even as we commit to working harder to activate what we know works in terms of prevention and treatment, we must learn much...
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Deaths in Women from Prescription Painkiller Overdoses Skyrockets Between 1999 and 2010

By rablogs on July 19, 2013
A Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month shows a staggering 400% increase in the number of women who died from a prescription painkiller overdose from 1999 to 2010. The rate of men’€™s deaths in that same category, meanwhile, rose 265% ’€” a depressing number in its own right. But the 400% increase in women means that in 2010, according to the CDC’€™s calculations, 6,600 women lost their lives because of a prescription painkiller overdose; that’€™s 18 women every day. That’€™s four times the number of deaths attributed to cocaine and heroin combined. And once every 3 minutes, an ER somewhere in America sees a woman for problems resulting...
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Deaths in Women from Prescription Painkiller Overdoses Skyrockets Between 1999 and 2010

By rablogs on July 19, 2013
A Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month shows a staggering 400% increase in the number of women who died from a prescription painkiller overdose from 1999 to 2010. The rate of men’€™s deaths in that same category, meanwhile, rose 265% ’€” a depressing number in its own right. But the 400% increase in women means that in 2010, according to the CDC’€™s calculations, 6,600 women lost their lives because of a prescription painkiller overdose; that’€™s 18 women every day. That’€™s four times the number of deaths attributed to cocaine and heroin combined. And once every 3 minutes, an ER somewhere in America sees a woman for problems resulting...
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