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How To: Recovery Resource Mapping
What addiction recovery resources are there in your community and what resources are needed to support long term recovery?
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Healing Harmonies: Music therapy helps hospital patients recover, cope
Music therapy is an established health care profession that promotes wellness, manages stress, alleviates pain and promotes physical rehabilitation, according to the American Music Therapy Association. Is this something that can be or is being used in your facility? Read about some of its uses.
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New Alcohol Screening Test
The RAPS4 alcohol screening test is a four-question quiz designed for busy clinical healthcare offices that has been shown to be effective in detecting alcohol dependence in the past 12 months. The RAPS4 test has been found to be highly effective in detecting alcohol dependence in the past year across gender and ethnic groups -- white, black and Hispanic.
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HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 Crosswalk
Found this great resource while surfing. The crosswalk compares 42CFR and HIPAA and answers most of the questions you'll have about the subject. You'll need Adobe reader.
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Manual for Recovery Coaching and Personal Recovery Plan Development
The recovery coach program is an intensive, community-based case management program for people who have entered an addiction treatment program or have been screened for treatment, but have been placed on a waiting list. The program is designed as an integrated component of a comprehensive addiction treatment program. The primary purpose of the recovery coach program is to help individuals in addiction treatment gain access to needed resources, services, or supports that will help them achieve recovery from their substance use disorder
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New Evidence On Addiction To Medicines: Diazepam Has Effect On Nerve Cells In The Brain Reward System
Addictions to medicines and drugs are thought to develop over a relatively long period of time. The process involves both structural and functional changes in brain nerve cells that are still poorly understood. However, a single drug or alcohol dose is sufficient to generate an initial stage of addiction.
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Alcohol Addiction and Obesity
People who consume too much alcohol have good chance of making it to the Obesity chart. Pure alcohol contains 7 calories per gram. Endocrine disorders, hypothalamus dysfunction and pineal gland tumors can cause obesity. Would you like to stay out of trouble?
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Removing Barriers: Dual Diagnosis Treatment and Motivational Interviewing
The phase-by-phase interventions from "denial" to "abstinence" begin by assessing the client's readiness to engage in treatment. Readiness levels are accepted as starting points for treatment, rather than points of confrontation or criteria for elimination. This website has numerous articles and training resources of interest to CD and MH professionals.
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An Action Plan on Behavioral Health Workforce Development
Across the nation, there is a high degree of concern about the current state and future direction of the workforce for preventing and treating mental health and substance use disorders.
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The Importance of Validity - How to avoid garbage in-garbage out
For many consumers their only concern with validity is that their survey has it. After all, isn't validity just another of 'those statistical things'? According to the American Psychological Association, validity "...refers to the appropriateness, meaningfulness, and usefulness of the specific inferences made from test scores."
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New Inservice Training Manual to Help Improve Treatment Practices for People with Co-occurring Disorders
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Retaining Employees in a Behavioral Health Treatment Business - Part 3 of 4
One of the ways to start out right with your new employees is to assure that they feel welcomed, valued, ...
ETOH - Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
From the late 1960s through present. This site includes approximately 110,000 records, with about 400 updates monthly. Presents complete perspective ...
Why Quit.com
According to the World Health Organization, if current smoking patterns persist, more than one billion smokers will smoke themselves to ...
BUILDING A NATIONAL STRATEGIC PLAN FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Concluding a two year strategic planning process that involved over 5,000 individuals across the nation, the Annapolis Coalition has completed ...
Staffing for Technical Support
Technology staffing can be a challenge for nonprofits. You need technical services to support your mission, but technology is not ...
Your First AA Meeting - A Guide For The Perplexed
Practically nobody looks forward to going to their first AA meeting. In most cases this in fact is an occasion ...
Learning from the past, rather than living in it
Do you sometimes feel like you're an unwilling victim of your past? In my own life, having had my fair share ...
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