Read article – Features an interview with Julianna Czum, assistant professor of radiology and of medicine, in which she discusses the impact of social media and how to differentiate a good blog post from a bad one.

Read article – Quotes Richard Barth, professor of surgery, about how he and his colleagues came up with guidelines for prescribing opioids for five different surgical procedures, and after educating residents, nurses and other physicians on the guidelines, saw opioid prescriptions dropped by 53 percent four months later. “I’m just trying to do my part as a physician to responsibly prescribe opioids,” says Barth. “I think if you do that, then fewer people are going to become longtime opioid users. It’s those people that go back to their family practitioners and keep demanding more opioids.”

Read article – Quotes James Bernat, the Louis and Ruth Frank Professor of Neuroscience and active emeritus professor of neurology and medicine, in an article that examines the definition of brain death. The article mentions that Bernat helped develop the theory of brain death that formed the basis of the 1981 President’s Commission report.

Read article – Quotes Daisy Goodman, clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, community and family medicine, and adjunct assistant professor of the Dartmouth Institute, in an article about how new mothers struggling with addiction get little attention. “We take intensive care of women during pregnancy. Postpartum, we drop them like a hot potato,” says Goodman.

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Lisa Marsch, director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and professor of psychiatry and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about research she led examining why New Hampshire’s opioid problem is so dire.

Read article – An opinion piece that comments on a New York Times story about one family’s struggle with addiction, and cites the work of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine in helping to explain why New Hampshire’s opioid problem is so dire. The Granite State ranks second behind West Virginia in opioid deaths – nearly 500 people died from overdoses in 2015 and 2016 – and first in the nation in deaths due to fentanyl.

Read article – Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, from an opinion piece previously published in The New York Times, which discussed the stricter guidelines from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.

Read article – Quotes David Jevsevar, chair and assistant professor of orthopaedics, about how a joint replacement may not eliminate all pain or restore full range of motion in a hip or knee. “We can’t take someone who is doing awful and suddenly make them perfect,” says Jevsevar.

Read article – A feature story about the 11th annual C. Everett Koop Addiction Medicine Symposium, which focused on the theme “Harm Reduction in an Opioid Era.” The article highlights conference speakers Louisa Chen, Geisel ’20, and Nasim Azizgolshani, Geisel ’20, who started a safe syringe program in Claremont, N.H., last year. Chen and Azizgolshani said that such programs can prevent the spread of diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis C, and connect drug users with critical services, including treatment. The article also quotes Charles Brackett, assistant professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how New Hampshire has the nation’s second-highest rate of fatal overdoses. (Similar coverage in the Valley News and the New Hampshire Union Leader.)

Read article – Continued coverage of comments by Lisa Marsch, director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and professor of psychiatry and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about research she led examining why New Hampshire’s opioid problem is so dire. (Similar coverage in The Washington Post.)