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Thursday, May 16, 2019
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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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CLAIRE HAO
Summer News Editor

ALYSSA MCMURTRY
Daily Staff Reporter

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