Inaccurate ideas and discriminatory policies toward pregnant substance users create barriers to appropriate care. One local center is stepping up to the plate.
Evidence-Based and Best Practices
Together, Health Professional Associations Determine Core Competencies in Collaboration
In nursing school, you learn about anatomy, epidemiology, ethics. Those topics are covered in medical and dental school, too. But what about working as a team with other medical professionals? How do we teach future health professionals to work together?
Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
SBIRT pushes healthcare integration, heightens awareness of behavioral health problems. We’ve got a chance to connect more substantially with the folks who are using SBIRT in northeast Ohio, including ONE Health Ohio CEO Ron Dwinnells.
Campus recovery groups transform lives. Can they change the student body at large?
“You were the first-ever president of the student recovery group at Penn State University. That meant you were one of the first people to talk publicly about your own addiction in a university with almost 100,000 undergraduate students. And you were only 21 years old. How did that feel?”
Are medications on the menu?
New reports suggest opportunities to increase utilization of medication-assisted treatment for opiate addiction in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Recovery is Excelsior, Ever Upward
our culture and language have described these issues as nearly impossible to tackle. We even have slogans like “once an addict, always an addict.” However, the evidence paints a different picture. Let’s expand the definition of recovery during National Recovery Month.
Overdose prevention strategies for heroin and prescription drug users (who may be one and the same)
Overdose in Allegheny County: 2014 updates. 2014 began with a rash of drug overdose deaths related to a dangerous heroin/fentanyl combination that emerged suddenly in the American northeast.
Bringing New Treatment Options to Homeless Clients
I believe that being human entails both a conscious awareness of the external world and the acceptance and understanding of a self that is separate from that world. SMART Recovery bolsters those who often feel powerless, says local outreach counselor
Substance use services for Deaf communities: What are the issues?
John is Deaf and part of a community that rarely has an easy time finding services for substance use and/or mental health disorders.
Hospital SBIRT: The Reasons
Are you trying to make the case for the use of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in a hospital setting? Maybe IRETA can help.
