Be Well Institute on Substance Use & Related Disorders
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June 5, 2025
By Steven Lee SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 13, 2022 – With the U.S. grappling with an unprecedented opioid-related overdose crisis, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has been been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research peer recovery support services for people living with [...]
June 5, 2025
By Steven Lee UT Health San Antonio contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu Hill Country MHDD contact: Kelsi Wilmot, 830-370-6302, kelsi8310@hillcountry.org SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 7, 2022 – Be Well Texas, a statewide initiative of UT Health San Antonio, and Hill Country Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities Centers have entered into an agreement to provide substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services [...]
June 5, 2025
By Josh Peck Be Well Texas, UT Health San Antonio’s substance use disorder response program, will use a $2 million federal grant to expand opioid use disorder treatment in rural Texas counties. Many rural counties in Texas have opioid use rates that are two to three times higher than urban counties, according to data analyzed by the Washington […]
June 5, 2025
By Steven Lee Four-year, $2 million federal grant will more than double rural providers Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 1, 2022 – UT Health San Antonio has received a four-year, $2 million federal grant to expand its substance use disorder response program, Be Well Texas, to the state’s 178 rural counties that have limited or […]
June 5, 2025
By Will Sansom SAN ANTONIO (May 12, 2022) — Despite scientific evidence that the medication buprenorphine/naloxone (or Suboxone) effectively treats opioid use disorder (OUD), only one-sixth of Texas clinicians surveyed in 2019 and early 2020 said they were prescribing the lifesaving medication, according to a study from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health [...]
June 5, 2025
By Will Sansom SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 17, 2021 — In partnership with UT Health San Antonio, Be Well Texas, a new statewide addiction medicine treatment option, has launched virtual services for those seeking recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs) and mental health challenges. Through telehealth and in-person visits, services are delivered under the supervision of board-certified physicians [...]
June 5, 2025
By Physician’s Briefing Staff Survey of 126 clinicians helps pinpoint barriers to obtaining waivers, prescribing buprenorphine FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The growth in the number of clinicians with waivers to prescribe buprenorphine slowed during the pandemic, and support and mentorship are needed to facilitate obtaining a waiver, according to two studies published online […]
June 5, 2025
By Jim Lefko SAN ANTONIO – The opioid crisis has been front and center in recent years, but methamphetamine addictions – and overdoses – may be an even more pressing and overlooked problem in Texas. “By the end of this year, over 4,000 Texans will have lost their lives to a drug overdose,” says Dr. Jennifer […]
June 5, 2025
By Ali Linan CNHI Texas statehouse reporter AUSTIN — As Texas officials continue to pursue compensation from opioid manufacturers and distributors, boots-on-the-ground advocacy groups are cautiously optimistic about what settlement money could mean in ending, or at least combatting, the opioid epidemic. In 2021, Texas reached several settlements with opioid drug makers and distributors including Johnson […]
June 5, 2025
By Mark McClennan Industry-Leading Recovery App to Be Part of New Be Well Texas Virtual Clinic SEATTLE & SAN ANTONIO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WEconnect Health Management today announced it is teaming with Be Well Texas at UT Health to make its WEconnect Recovery app available to Texans as part of the Be Well Texas provider network and clinical services to treat […]
