2 Thursday, May 16, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS SUNNY DAY puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com CASSANDRA MANSUETTI Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 opt.3 cassette@michigandaily.com RYAN KELLY Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 dailydisplay@gmail.com EDITORIAL STAFF Barbara Collins & Alex Harring Managing News Editors news@michigandaily.com Erin White Editorial Page Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Jorge Cazares & Akul Vijayvargiya Managing Sports Editors sportseditors@michigandaily.com Julianna Morano Managing Arts Editor arts@michigandaily.com Alexandria Pompei & Natalie Stephens Managing Photo Editors photo@michigandaily.com Alec Cohen & Kathryn Halverson Managing Design Editors design@michigandaily.com Silas Lee Managing Copy Editor copydesk@michigandaily.com Devak Nanua & Sam So Managing MiC Editors michiganincolor@michigandaily.com Amir Basha Managing Online Editor webteam@michigandaily.com CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom Office hours: Sun.-Thurs. 11 a.m. - 2 a.m. 734-763-2459 opt.3 News Tips news@michigandaily.com Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Letters to the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com or visit michigandaily.com/letters Photo Department photo@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Magazine statement@michigandaily.com Advertising Phone: 734-418-4115 Department dailydisplay@gmail.com 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- long subscriptions are $275. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. Subscriptions must 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 Read more at michigandaily.com CLAIRE HAO Summer News Editor ALYSSA MCMURTRY Daily Staff Reporter Read more at michigandaily.com Design by Kathryn Halverson