Department News | September 30, 2025
We’re proud to report that once again Seattle Magazine’s annual list of top doctors in the Puget Sound region features a number of faculty and courtesy faculty members from our department.
News & Stories
The siren song of forced drug treatment
PubliCola | September 25, 2025
In this op-ed, Susan Collins, PhD writes about involuntary addiction treatment and responds to Dr. Keith Humphrey's New York Times op-ed titled "Forced drug treatment isn't horrific. It's a relief.
A new Seattle clinic aims to turn an overdose into recovery
KUOW | August 26, 2025
Stabilizing someone after a drug overdose is critical to their survival, but that’s often not the end of their struggle. Caleb Banta-Green, PhD talks about a new recovery option in Seattle.
Trouble sleeping? Blame the “Black Moon”
AXIOS Seattle | August 21, 2025
David Avery, MD and other researchers have tracked bipolar patients whose sleep and mood cycles lined up almost perfectly with lunar rhythms.
Podcast: Collaborative Care for Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care
JAMA Network | August 20, 2025
Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD and Andy Saxon, MD discuss their new paper and how the collaborative care model can be adapted to treat opioid use disorder.
How your brain’s nightly cleanse keeps it healthy
Scientific American | August 19, 2025
Washing waste from the brain is an essential function of sleep — and it could help ward off dementia. Jeff Iliff, PhD is interviewed.
The country’s got kratom on the brain. What is it exactly?
KUOW | August 13, 2025
The FDA recently announced plans to restrict a substance called 7-OH, one of the compounds in kratom. Caleb Banta-Green, PhD discusses it in this interview from KUOW.
WA launches online Narcan finder amid rising overdose deaths
Columbia Basin Herald | August 12, 2025
Building on work spearheaded by ADAI, the WA State Department of Health has unveiled a new online tool to help residents swiftly locate free Narcan.
With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views
UW News | August 6, 2025
A team of researchers including Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD found that explicitly biased chatbots often try to persuade users by shifting how they frame topics.
Helping youth thrive means moving beyond incarceration
UW Medicine Newsroom | July 28, 2025
A study published in The American Journal of Public Health highlighted best practices in the closing of youth detention facilities. Study author Ben Danielson, MD talks about the findings.
