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	Effective Risk Management Strategies in Outpatient Methadone Treatment - Trainer's Manual	The manual was created as a guide to facilitate your successful delivery of Effective Risk Management Strategies in Outpatient Methadone Treatment. The suggested scripts and activities in each module will guide you through the entire training process. It is important that you become familiar with the content of each module so that you can easily guide the discussion of each topic (more...)
	Recovery-Focused Methadone Treatment	Recovery-Focused Methadone Treatment: A Primer for Practice Today in Pennsylvania. This document is prepared to address methadone treatment for opioid addiction scientifically and with knowledge of best practices. Section one provides responses to some of the most frequently asked questions related to methadone. Section two addresses the elements of a recovery focus to opioid addiction treatment with methadone. (more...)
	Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders in Adolescents	Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders in Adolescents. This training manual was revised in 2010. The curriculum format was updated to include the power point within each module of the trainers manual and a participant manual. (more...)
	Addictions Recovery: When Knowing the Facts Can Help	Addictions Recovery: When Knowing the Facts Can Help. This research brief outlines the economic benefits of substance use treatment, especially approaches that address addiction as a chronic condition in need of continuing care. (more...)
	Issues Facing Returning Veterans	Issues Facing Returning Veterans. These are no ordinary times for the nation and its veterans and those who care for them. For that reason, this issue of Resource Links newsletter is dedicated to understanding the complexities that returning veterans and their families face. This issue, an update to our 2004 veterans edition, will focus on the unique as well as the more fundamental issues facing our veterans today. (more...)
	Pathways to Recovery: Embrace Innovation	Pathways to Recovery: Embrace Innovation. As healthcare delivery systems change and we continue replace an acute care model with a chronic care model of addiction treatment, this issue of Resource Links outlines innovative programs and ideas for implementing change. (more...)
	Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders in Adults	Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders in Adults. This training manual is designed to be used in training addiction professionals who work with adults who have co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. The manual examines historical trends and presents an integrated approach to treatment with a focus on the recovery process. Each of the modules contains competencies, exercises and handout materials to supplement the training. (more...)
	Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support: History, Theory, Practice, and Scientific Evaluation	Peer-based Addiction Recovery Support: History, Theory, Practice, and Scientific Evaluation. Addiction treatment and recovery in the United States contains a rich "wounded healer" tradition. Formal peer-based recovery support services (P-BRSS) are now being delivered through diverse organizations and roles. This monograph examines the history and future of peer-based recovery support (more...)
	Recovery-Oriented Methadone Maintenance	Recovery-Oriented Methadone Maintenance. There are growing calls to shift the acute care model of addiction treatment to a model of sustained recovery support analogous to the long-term management of other chronic diseases. The purpose of this monograph is to explore what this shift means to the design and delivery of methadone maintenance (MM) treatment and the status of MM treatment and MM patients in the United States. (more...)
	Today	Today. IRETA and the Northeast ATTC developed this DVD which features a 1-minute commercial that attempts to undercut the stigma surrounding addiction (more...)