Medical Association of the State of Alabama

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  • Study: Is the Opioid Crisis Response Overlooking Women?

    Study: Is the Opioid Crisis Response Overlooking Women?

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    CONNECTICUT – Women’s Health Research at Yale is calling on a government committee to revise its report on a coordinated response to the opioid epidemic so that it reflects the unique needs of women. In a commentary published in the peer-reviewed journal Biology of Sex Differences, WHRY Director Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., and Jill Becker, Ph.D., chair…

  • What If No One Was On Call [at the Legislature]?

    What If No One Was On Call [at the Legislature]?

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    2018 Recap of the Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature In times of illness, injury and emergency, patients depend on their physicians. But what if no one was on call? Public health would be in jeopardy.  However, the same holds true for the Legislature. During the 2018 session alone, if the Medical Association had not…

  • Just What the Doctor Ordered: An Alabama Perspective on the Opioid Epidemic

    Just What the Doctor Ordered: An Alabama Perspective on the Opioid Epidemic

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    Sometimes, Alabama is No. 1. In 2012, Alabama was the highest per capita painkiller prescribing state, with an average of 143 prescriptions written per 100 people — almost three times the rate of the lowest prescribing state.1 Alabama has been home to other No. 1s, too. In 2012, Dr. Shelinder Aggarwal, a former Huntsville-area pain…