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The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) 
is published Monday through Friday 
during the fall and winter terms by 
students at the University of Michigan. 
One copy is available free of charge 
to all readers. Additional copies may 
be picked up at the Daily’s office 
for $2 per issue. Subscriptions for 
September - April are $250, and year-
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be prepaid. 

Legislators show 
support of ‘One U’

12 congresspeople 
sign Free Press op-ed 
supporting ‘equitable’ 
campus funding

On 
Wednesday 
morning, 
state Sen. Curtis Hertel, Jr., 
D-Lansing, 
and 
state 
Rep. 
Jon 
Hoadley, 
D-Kalamazoo, 
published an opinion piece in 
the Detroit Free Press titled 
“University 
of 
Michigan 
students in Flint and Dearborn 
are shortchanged. That has to 
stop.” Signed by a dozen state 
legislators, the article discusses 
disparities 
in 
funding 
and 
resources across the University 
of Michigan’s three campuses.
“As members of the Michigan 
State 
Legislature, 
we 
are 
incredibly proud that our state 
is home to the University of 
Michigan,” Hertel and Hoadley 
wrote. “But we were elected to 
stand up for all Michiganders — 

and today, we call on the Leaders 
and Best to do better.”
The op-ed comes one day 
before 
the 
One 
University 
Campaign 
plans 
to 
“pack” 
the final Board of Regents 
meeting to “demand equitable 
funding 
for 
(the) 
UM-Flint 
and UM-Dearborn campuses.” 
Formed 
in 
fall, 
the 
One 
University 
Campaign 
is 
a 
coalition of students, faculty, 
staff and community members 
aiming to promote equitable 
distribution 
of 
funding 
and 
resources 
between 
the 
University’s 
three 
campuses. 
The campaign also hopes to 
ensure long-term support for the 
Flint and Dearborn campuses 
from University President Mark 
Schlissel, the Board of Regents 
and the state legislature.
In a statement provided to The 
Daily, One University spokesman 
Austin Ogle confirmed the op-ed 
was written in coordination 
with the 1U campaign.

Schools host joint 
conference in 
Ypsilanti Friday

Friday night, nearly 100 health 
professionals, 
researchers, 
policymakers 
and 
community 
members 
gathered 
with 
the 
University 
of 
Michigan 
and 
Harvard University at the Ypsilanti 
Marriott Resort at Eagle Crest to 
discuss research done on the United 
States’s opioid epidemic. The seven-
hour summit, titled “Opioids: Policy 
to Practice,” featured Rear Admiral 
Sylvia Trent-Adams, Ph.D., R.N., 
F.A.A.N. as the keynote speaker. 
University President Mark Schlissel 
also gave special remarks as well 
as commentary from four other 
panels.
University professor of surgery 
Michael Englesbe began the third 
panel on health system approaches 
to opioid prescription. He explained 
the 
vast 
majority 
of 
people 
suffering from opioid abuse are 
first introduced to it by doctors and 
surgeons.
“Particularly 
disturbing 
are 
women who have had breast 
cancer … (and) survived the cancer, 
almost 20 percent of those women 
become chronic opioid users after 
that horrible journey,” Englesbe 
said. “It essentially comes down to 
overprescribing.”
According 
to 
a 
University 
of 
Michigan 
Institution 
for 
Healthcare Policy and Innovation 

brief, prescriptions often far exceed 
pain 
management 
needs 
and 
“becoming a new chronic opioid 
user is the most common post-
surgical complication.”
University 
professor 
of 
anesthesiology, 
medicine 
and 
psychiatry, Dr. Daniel Clauw, said 
he was originally trained to not 
treat chronic pain with opioids. 
According to Clauw, the industry’s 
shift came in 1997 when the Food 
and Drug Administration changed 
the label for oxycontin and deemed 
it acceptable for health professionals 
to prescribe to their patients.
“One of the things that really 
makes my head explode is when 
the narrative is driven by these 
anecdotes, by these patients that 
are brought up before the FDA … 
that say they’re on high doses of 
opioids and that they are doing 
incredibly well,” Clauw said. “I talk 
about those individuals that are on 
very high dosages of opioids that are 
doing very well. I say, ‘these are like 
unicorns: I’ve heard about them, but 
I’ve never seen them.’”
Clauw blames pharmacies for not 
stopping the distribution of opioids 
despite knowing the dangers that 
came along with it. He said they are 
no less of a cartel than the street 
traffickers.
“The 
drug 
distributors 
and 
pharmacies 
knew 
exactly 
what 
was going on,” Clauw said. “They 
knew about these drug mules and 
everything like that, but they were 
making a lot of money, and they 
weren’t doing anything to stop this.

Harvard, ‘U’ tackle 
opioid epidemic

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