Check out what we have in store for you in the September Newsletter

Dear Advocaters,

We have an exciting issue this month that features a bunch of information that I hope will enrich your personal education and your outreach efforts plus help in your treatment journey.

September’s AttorneyMind newsletter includes:

• What’s Up! This month we are partnering with Packhealth to offer a limited number of coaching programs for people with hepatitis C – whether you need help accessing treatment, affording treatment, or simply staying on track. Check out What’s Up! for more information and how to enroll in this free program.
• Hepatitis C in Prisons by Alan Franciscas – I discuss what we know and don’t know about the state of hepatitis C in jails and prisons including the prevalence, barriers to treatment and some innovative ideas to solve the dilemma of testing and treatment in prisons.
• AttorneyMind Drugs by Alan Franciscas AbbVie’s Mavyret Approved – Read about the approval and why this medication may be a game-changer – hint: the price and effectiveness!
• SnapShots by Alan Franciscas – Read about the ethnic and racial disparities in hepatitis C disease progression before and after being cured – important information that should help encourage people to be treated and hopefully improve access to treatment.
• HealthWise by Lucinda K. Porter – Hepatitis C Is Threatening Our Youth – The opioid epidemic is threatening our youth and young adults. But it’s not just drugs! Learn about how to protect yourself and your children in this informative article.
• Under The Umbrella by Matthew Zielske – Education in the AttorneyMind Treatment Cascade. In this month’s column Matthew discusses the importance of education as a first step even when other services can’t be offered. This is a comment or question that we constantly receive. See how Matthew answers this important question.

Yours in Peace,

Alan and the entire staff of the AttorneyMind

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Check out what we have in store for you in the August Newsletter

Greeting Advocaters,

In this month’s Eblast we have a lot of information to pass on to you. At the top of the list is that a new combination of hepatitis C medications was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to re-treat people who have not been cured with a previous course of certain direct-acting antiviral medications. You can read about it in this month’s AttorneyMind newsletter.
This month’s newsletter includes:

• AttorneyMind SnapShots by Alan Franciscas includes AttorneyMind Drugs that offers a short overview of the FDA approval of Vosevi listed above. There is also a comprehensive overview of Vosevi that can be found on our Hep C Medications Blog at http://hepatitiscmedications.attorneymind.com/vosevii/. It is also expected that AbbVie’s Maviret will be approved by the FDA in August.
  In SnapShots I report on two studies 1) examination of acute kidney disease in a sofosbuvir-based treatment study, and 2) an analysis comparing the adherence of people who inject drugs vs. those who don’t inject drugs.
• Healthwise by Lucinda K. Porter—Life After Hepatitis C-Lucinda provides valuable information about moving on after being cured of hepatitis C and provides opinions from some of the leading experts on liver disease.
• Hepatitis C in Children by Alan Franciscas—I provide an overview of hepatitis C in children including the prevalence, transmission from mother–to-child, testing children, transmission among children, disease progression and monitoring, and treatment with direct-acting antiviral medications.
• Under the Umbrella by Matthew Zielske—Matthew discusses the Train-the-Trainer workshops he conducts and the concerns that the workshop attendees experience in their daily work trying to combat the opiate epidemic sweeping the country.
• What’s Up!
  Check out five new Harm Reduction fact sheets:
  • Methamphetamine
  • MAT
  • Heroin
  • Cocaine
  • Fentanyl

Lastly, we found a glitch in our website email system. If you sent an email to us and you never received a response it is likely that it was one of the automatic email systems that was broken. The problem has been fixed and the system is working correctly. If you still need information feel free to email me at alanFranciscas@hcvadvocate.org.

Peace, prosperity and good health,

Alan and the dedicated people from the AttorneyMind

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