Michael DeWitt attended the 2024 International Field Epidemiology and Tropical Medicine course in Peru hosted by the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and the EMERGE group(Unidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Emergentes y Cambio Climático) along with students and faculty from the University of Texas Medical Branch.

.wrappingr { float: right; shape-margin: 50px; width: 40%; } .wrappingl { float: left; shape-margin: 50px; width: 40%; } #fig-structure > figure > figcaption { float: left; clear: both; } Truly Trading One Drug for Another ‘You are just trading one drug for another’ is a common refrain in the world of substance use disorders.

.wrappingr { float: right; shape-margin: 50px; width: 40%; } .wrappingl { float: left; shape-margin: 50px; width: 40%; } #fig-structure > figure > figcaption { float: left; clear: both; } What is happening when an addictive substance is used in the brain? Every addictive substance acts on a chemical in the brain called dopamine.

.wrappingr { float: right; shape-margin: 50px; width: 40%; } .wrappingl { float: left; shape-margin: 50px; width: 40%; } #fig-structure > figure > figcaption { float: left; clear: both; } Part 1: Defining Addiction A 22 year old male is sitting in bed, pale and mildly short of breath. He is recovering from a surgery on his heart valve which was badly damaged by infection he developed from injecting drugs intravenously.

There are many arguments in academic circles about how to frame and think about addiction. In my personal experience, I find one of the most helpful ways to think of addiction is the classic framework that views addiction as a ‘biopsychosocial’ disease. I like this framework because it helps us identify and then examine all of the key ingredients that go into forming and maintaining a substance use disorder.

Our second year Infectious Diseases fellow Dr. Cook presented this work on serratia endocarditis at 2022 IDWeek in Washington DC! Here at AHWFB Health we have been seeing an increasing number of infections of the heart due to the bacteria Serratia marcescens in persons who inject drugs. This is a reddish-orange bacteria commonly found in soil and water that is not a usual cause of serious infections.

How many vaccines do we need?

Tracking the Outbreak Learning lessons from the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic, we have launched a new website tracking the reported number of Monkeypox cases in North Carolina using data reported by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) as well as across the United States using data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Monkeypox virus (MPX), a double stranded DNA

There might be valid concerns about the mRNA vaccines. Then there are the clearly insane ones, such as the claims that it involves the injection of a microchip. The argument that mRNA vaccines are a form of ‘gene therapy’ are somewhere in the middle, and that makes responding to it somewhat difficult.