This article first appeared at http://ldh.la.gov on December 03, 2018 and contains references to work by Sarah Hamauei MD.  The Louisiana Department of Health today released the recommendations of an expert panel on how to address the opioid epidemic in the state. The recommendations call for (1) improving access to non-opioid treatments for pain; (2) expanding access to effective treatment; …

This article first appeared in the Advocate of Baton Rouge and contains contributions by Sarah Hamauei MD. “She was brilliant, and also unassuming in a lot of ways … she’s a very kind, compassionate and loving woman, but she’s also extremely naïve. I didn’t really see it that way as a child, though. I just saw her as my beautiful, …

This article first appeared in the Advocate of Baton Rouge and contains contributions by Sarah Hamauei MD. “Everyone fell in love with Bryce from the moment they met him … he would light up a room. He was very loving, he had the biggest heart of anybody I knew, and I think toward the end, that’s what killed him. He …