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      <title>New NIH Team Science Grant to Address HIV and Substance Use Epidemics</title>
      <description>Geo-Targeted Implementation of a Novel Mobile Pharmacy and Clinic Healthcare Delivery Model with Community Health Workers for Prevention, Care, and Treatment of HIV and Substance Use is a $10 million, five-year, team science research grant funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Alcohol consumption at its lowest point in 80 years as health warnings grow</title>
      <description>The share of Americans who drink alcohol has dropped to its lowest level since the 1940s. Some people may have changed their behaviors after learning of alcohol's impact on the body. YSPH Professor Vasilis Vasilou describes the relationship between alcohol and cancer.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>What alcohol does to the body</title>
      <description>From the moment we take a sip, drinking starts to influence our biology. YSPH Professor Vasilis Vasiliou joins other experts in providing information about the impact of alcohol on personal health.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Seven-Day Injectable, Daily Tablet Buprenorphine Equally Effective for ED Patients with Opioid Use Disorder</title>
      <description>In a Yale study, researchers found that seven-day injectable buprenorphine and daily tablet buprenorphine are equally safe and effective in engaging patients with opioid use disorder in treatment after an emergency department visit.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Methadone: Public Transit is a Barrier for Accessing Treatment</title>
      <description>In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, Yale researchers examined the burdens for people who use public transit to access methadone treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) at Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) in Connecticut.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:30:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Epidemiologist Dr. Magdalena Cerdá joins YSPH as Chair of the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology</title>
      <description>Dr. Cerdá is widely recognized for her national leadership in social epidemiology, particularly for her groundbreaking work on intersecting epidemics involving substance use, violence, and other chronic diseases. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:30:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Medicaid reimbursement boosts access to opioid treatment at new facilities</title>
      <description>Yale School of Public Health researchers say that a dramatic increase in the use of opioid disorder medications in residential treatment facilities over the past decade was driven by a new Medicaid reimbursement plan and new treatment facilities entering the market. The insight may prove helpful for policymakers seeking to improve the quality of care.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Yale School of Public Health’s PopHIVE project will expand health data access thanks to major grant</title>
      <description>The support will advance PopHIVE’s efforts to integrate public and private health data sources for a variety of health conditions.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Dasgupta wins ‘genius grant’ for creative and effective harm reduction work</title>
      <description>Dr. Nabarun L. Dasgupta, PhD, MPH ’03, is a 2025 MacArthur Fellow and "genius grant" recipient. The MacArthur Foundation noted Dasgupta, an epidemiologist and harm reduction advocate, combines science with community engagement in a way that lowers deaths and other afflictions from drug use. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>How Much Alcohol Is Too Much?</title>
      <description>“If our blanket recommendation is just ‘no alcohol intake,’ patients may be concerned and fearful of talking to us about drinking,” said Jeanette Tetrault, MD, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Fentanyl and Other High-Potency Synthetic Opioids Are Changing How Doctors Initiate Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in the Hospital</title>
      <description>A new study published in JAMA Network Open assessed novel initiation approaches used by hospital-based addiction consult services (ACS) to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) around the country. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>YSPH research advances: Alcohol use drugs underutilized, air pollution linked to health concerns</title>
      <description>New studies from the Yale School of Public Health investigate the underutilization of alcohol use disorder medications, a possible link between long-term ozone exposure and respiratory mortality, and whether air pollution increases the risk of suicidal ideation in children.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>These common chemicals could be harming your liver</title>
      <description>A new review has found that exposure to particular chemicals can, when combined, enhance damage to the liver.
The researchers of the July 2025 review, published in Toxicological Sciences, found that both alcohol and PFAS chemicals—a group of widely-used compounds—damage the liver in similar ways.

This could be "causing fat buildup, inflammation, and oxidative stress," Vasilis Vasiliou, one of the authors of the review, and chair and professor of environmental health sciences at Yale School of Public Health, told Newsweek.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:44:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Study: Few Mental Health Facilities Offer Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder</title>
      <description>Just 10% of mental health treatment facilities offer medications for alcohol use disorder, according to a research letter published by the Yale School of Public Health. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <link>https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/precision-policies-how-epidemiology-can-help-address-drug-overdose-and-firearm-violence/</link>
      <title>Precision Policies: How Epidemiology Can Help  Address Drug Overdose and Firearm Violence</title>
      <description>Dr. Magdalena Cerdá, DrPH, MPH ’99, director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine, recently spoke to YSPH students about how she uses social epidemiology to develop evidence-based policies that improve population health.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 04:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>CT’s health commissioners should support overdose prevention centers</title>
      <description>As the opioid overdose crisis continues to harm people across Connecticut, there is an urgent need to take bold action. One of the most promising solutions, supported by decades of evidence, is the establishment of overdose prevention centers . These centers save lives and provide comprehensive support to people who use drugs.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 04:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Opinion: The need for overdose prevention centers in Connecticut</title>
      <description>People who use drugs are members of our communities and equally deserve protection from crime; OPCs are often a safe haven for people who use drugs.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Bold action needed to further reduce CT overdose deaths</title>
      <description>Overdose prevention centers can save lives and improve the health and well-being of Connecticut people addicted to drugs – especially opioids like fentanyl, YSPH Professor Robert Heimer says in this CT MIrror commentary.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 04:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>How to close America's life expectancy gap</title>
      <description>The U.S. ranks 29th in life expectancy at birth among peer nations in the OECD. Changing that goes well beyond the health care system.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Ijeoma Opara Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers</title>
      <description>The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding early-career scientists and engineers who are federally funded. Dr. Opara is among 400 scientists who received the prestigious PECASE award from former President Joseph Biden in January.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>The link between alcohol and cancer</title>
      <description>U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has issued an advisory calling for updated warnings on alcoholic beverages, cautioning that the consumption of alcohol heightens the risk of several types of cancer. YSPH epidemiologist Vasilis Vasiliou elaborates on the concerns.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 05:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Unmasking alcohol: Yale experts debate alcohol’s cancer risk and labeling implications</title>
      <description>The News spoke with Yale experts about the U.S. Surgeon General’s recommendations for raising awareness about alcohol’s cancer risk.  YSPH Professor Vasilis Vasiliou comments.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Alcohol-related cancer kills 20K Americans per year</title>
      <description>CGTN’s Diego Laje speaks to Dr. Chen Xi, an Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the Yale School of Public Health, about warning labels for alcohol proposed by the surgeon general. </description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 05:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>CT cancer expert on U.S. surgeon general's warning about alcohol and cancer risk: ‘Cutting back makes sense’</title>
      <description>Oncologists with Yale Cancer Center are praising a report released by the Office of the Surgeon General that seeks to add a warning label on alcoholic beverages showing the direct link between drinking and fatal cancers. YSPH Professor Vasilis Vasiliou comments.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 05:00:00 Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Yale Cancer Center doctor endorses cancer warnings on alcohol</title>
      <description>YSPH Professor Vasilis Vasiliou discusses the U.S. Surgeon General's call for warning labels on alcoholic beverages due to scientific information linking alcohol consumption to cancer.</description>
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      <description>A look at Chicago's growing acceptance of sobriety in celebrations and social spaces. YSPH Associate Professor Ijeoma Opara shares her research on substance use.</description>
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      <title>Unanticipated effects of e-cigarette flavor restrictions may offset potential benefits</title>
      <description>Restricting the sale of flavored e-cigarettes may not be as protective for youth as initially anticipated, researchers say in a new study published in JAMA Health Forum. </description>
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      <title>Tobacco 21 policies could avert more than half a million premature deaths</title>
      <description>A new study led by Yale researchers with the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) Lung Working Group has determined that the NAM report grossly underestimated the number of averted deaths. The findings significantly amplify the potential impact of the T21 law and provide important new information for future state and local policy discussions surrounding tobacco regulation and public health.</description>
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      <title>Why Do So Few U.S. Psych Hospitals Use Medications for Opioid Use Disorder?</title>
      <description>A nationwide survey of U.S. psychiatric hospitals shows that fewer than 50% offer buprenorphine, methadone, and/or naltrexone, lifesaving medications that can treat opioid use disorder. </description>
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      <title>Study on Opioid Poisoning in Children Points to Prevention Strategies</title>
      <description>Most fatal pediatric opioid poisonings among children occur in their home with many following a history of maltreatment, a new Yale study finds.</description>
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      <description>A recent study by YSPH Associate Professor Gregg Gonsalves and colleagues used a special program to show the potential of location technology to increase the uptake of HIV treatment in high-risk individuals.</description>
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      <title>Report examines impact of alcohol, drug, and firearm deaths on life expectancy in the U.S.</title>
      <description>A new report co-authored by Yale School of Public Health Dean Dr. Megan L. Ranney examines how alcohol, drug, and firearm deaths have lowered life expectancy in the United States and contributed to a widening gap in life expectancy between the U.S. and other high-income countries. Investing in targeted public health interventions would have an immediate impact on reducing these preventable deaths, the authors say.</description>
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      <title>Older Gay &amp; Lesbian Adults at Greater Risk of Polysubstance Use: Study</title>
      <description>Gay and lesbian adults over age 65 are nearly 28 times more likely than heterosexual peers to engage in polysubstance use, a Yale team finds in a new study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports.</description>
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      <title>From Tragedy to Advocacy: How one YSPH student is battling the opioid crisis</title>
      <description>Dita Bhargava's fight to stop America's opioid epidemic is a personal one. A new student in the Yale School of Public Health's Executive MPH Program, Bhagarva lost her son to fentanyl poisoning six years ago. She hopes to apply the skills she learns at YSPH to prevent future opioid deaths by advocating for new government policies and community interventions.</description>
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      <title>Combination OUD Treatment Safe During Pregnancy</title>
      <description>For pregnant persons with opioid use disorder (OUD), buprenorphine and naloxone used together were associated with similar or better neonatal and maternal outcomes versus buprenorphine alone, a large nationwide population-based cohort study found. YSPH Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) Dr. Gail D'Onofrio comments.</description>
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      <title>How Much Alcohol Is Too Much for a Driver?</title>
      <description>With U.S. drunk-driving deaths rising in recent years (about 33 percent between 2019 and 2022, according to the most recent data), several other states — including New York, Washington, Hawaii and Connecticut — are now considering similar legislation to lower the legal driving limit. YSPH Lecturer Linda Degutis comments.</description>
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      <title>How QR code can help people with opioid use disorder</title>
      <description>Dr. Robert Heimer, professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, explains how a QR code can help people with opioid use disorder in an interview with News 8 at Noon.</description>
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      <title>Yale Scientists Aim to Achieve Better Understanding of Molecular Effects of Alcohol Use Disorder on Brain</title>
      <description>New research led by three Yale School of Medicine scientists aims to achieve better understanding of the molecular effects of alcohol use disorder (AUD) on certain regions of the brain.</description>
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      <title>Seven-day Buprenorphine Is Safe for Those With Minimal Opioid Withdrawal</title>
      <description>An extended-release version of buprenorphine, a treatment for opioid use disorder, can be used earlier than other medication.</description>
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      <description>The majority of the estimated $206 billion resulting from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement have not gone to address smoking or public health. Following a similar settlement of a multi-state litigation, the state of Connecticut is expecting around $600 million to address the state’s opioid overdose crisis, which resulted in 1,340 overdose deaths in 2023 alone. To avoid the experience of the Tobacco funds, Yale faculty are proactively providing recommendations on how to spend these funds.</description>
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      <title>Study Sheds Light on Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Opioid Use Disorder</title>
      <description>A new study by VA Connecticut Healthcare System and Yale School of Medicine researchers assesses how the most up-to-date genetic and psychosocial predictors of opioid use disorder compare and combine when predicting the risk of becoming dependent on opioids.</description>
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      <title>Mental health and addiction care falls short because it's not profitable</title>
      <description>Serious mental illness and addiction have a profound effect on families and communities, but their complexity and their concentration among lower-income people make them issues that the private market has little incentive to solve. YSPH Associate Professor Zack Cooper offers insight into the challenges.</description>
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      <title>Yale Emergency Physicians Pioneer Transformative Data-to-Action Infrastructure Powering Evidence-Based Care for Opioid Use Disorder</title>
      <description>Emergency departments (EDs) are essential but underutilized access points for opioid use disorder diagnosis and treatment. Harnessing electronic health record (EHR) data to drive infrastructure development and service improvement is one promising pathway toward maximizing the potential of EDs to connect individuals with opioid use disorder to care. A new clinical trial funded through the National Institutes of Health Helping End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Data2Action Initiative proposes to do just that. </description>
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      <title>People who stop drinking alcohol lower their colorectal and breast cancer risk</title>
      <description>Dr. Vasilis Vasiliou, Yale Cancer Center researcher and director of the Yale Superfund Research Center, not involved in the research, explained: “Acetaldehyde, a metabolite of ethanol, the primary component of alcoholic beverages, is classified as a Group 1 human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), indicating sufficient evidence for its cancer-causing potential. Acetaldehyde is metabolized fast in the liver except in some Asians with genetic defects in acetaldehyde metabolizing enzyme (ALDH2).”</description>
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      <title>‘This is Cause for Alarm’: Abstinence-Only Opioid Treatment Is Deadlier Than None, Study Says</title>
      <description>People with Opioid Use Disorder who receive abstinence-only treatment are more likely to die than people who receive no treatment at all, according to a new Yale study published in the Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence.</description>
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      <title>Treating Opioid Disorder Without Meds More Harmful Than No Treatment at All</title>
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      <title>How methadone, other meds are helping to lower CT opioid deaths</title>
      <description>A special advisory committee earlier this year laid out several key strategies for curtailing opioid overdoses in Connecticut. It argued that increasing the accessibility and use of methadone and buprenorphine would be the most effective approach to stemming the mounting death toll. YSPH Professor Robert Heimer helped produce the report.</description>
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      <title>Overdose-Prevention Grant Heralded On Grand</title>
      <description>Roughly $10 million in federal aid will flow to the New Haven area over the next five years to help municipal health departments take a regional approach in combating the opioid epidemic. YSPH Professor Robert Heimer is helping to lead the effort.</description>
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