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How climate change may affect addiction recovery
10/17/24

UB researcher is first to examine how climate change may affect addiction recovery.

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“When we think about oral health, we really silo it rather than thinking of it as we have one body; we have one health. But oral health is really the gateway into someone's whole health.”
2/20/25

Candace Ziglor, DSW, clinical assistant professor, University of Detroit Mercy, on integrating social work in dental care

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