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With opioid overdose deaths increasing at alarming speed, naloxone, an overdose antidote, provides some hope amidst a grave, serious public health crisis. From 2014 to 2015 alone, opioid-related overdose deaths increased 11 percent in Minnesota.
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Award recognizes her outstanding commitment to raising awareness of the dangers of prescription drug abuse.
![Mike Swanoski](/sites/pharmacy.umn.edu/files/2022-10/swanoski_mike-maroon.png)
Michael Swanoski, PharmD, is the new Senior Associate Dean for the Duluth campus.
![Randy Seifert](/sites/pharmacy.umn.edu/files/2022-10/randy_seifert-maroon.png)
Randy Seifert, PharmD, professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, has been named the Peters Endowed Chair in Pharmacy
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Randall Seifert, PharmD, senior associate dean and professor at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, has been selected as the 2016 Lawrence C. and Delores M. Weaver Medal recipient.
![Derek Jennings](/sites/pharmacy.umn.edu/files/2022-10/jennings_derek-maroon.png)
According to Aristotle, “The soul never thinks without a picture.” So perhaps the image-based research Dr. Derek Jennings does could be defined as a way to ‘discover what the soul is thinking’…