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Surgeon General Campaign Aims to Reduce Opioid Prescriptions

With opioid overdose deaths quadrupling since 1999, US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD,...

Responsibilities of Dental Providers in Recognizing Substance Use Disorders

INTRODUCTION In the last 10 years, substance use disorders (SUDs) and opioid misuse have...

Did You Just Prescribe a Teenager’s Death?

In my years of practice and teaching residents at one of the busiest residency...

Sun Life and DentaQuest Donate $100,000 to RIZE Massachusetts

Sun Life U.S. and DentaQuest, part of Sun Life U.S., have donated $100,000 to...

Dr. Rajesh Khanna Named Director of the NYU Pain Research Center

Rajesh Khanna, PhD, an internationally known expert in pain research, has been named director...

Pitt Dental Medicine Incorporates Pledge to Responsible Pain Care Management

The University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine (Pitt Dental Medicine) announced The Costello...

Dental Schools Put NIH Funding to Work in Research

Research may be essential to every dental school, but it can cost a lot...

Partnership to Support Emergency Dental Treatment for the Underserved

Delta Dental of Arizona (DDAZ) has partnered with Neighborhood Outreach Access to Health (NOAH)...

Surgeon General Visits East Tennessee Dental Clinic

When United States Surgeon General VADM Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH, visited the Healing...

Assistant Surgeon General Visits UTHSC College of Dentistry

Rear Admiral Timothy Ricks, DMD, MPH, chief dental officer of the US Public Health...