Your ongoing relationship with your patient makes you the ideal person to monitor substance use and refer to specialty treatment as needed.
Evidence-Based and Best Practices
Could collaborative documentation be the next big—and effective—thing in behavioral healthcare?
Transparency is also expected from our health care providers. It’s what’s behind patient listservs and organizations that work to connect patients with each other and make health information accessible. Some say sharing session notes with patients improves the treatment of substance use disorders.
Infographic: Why Mainstream Healthcare Can’t Ignore Substance Use
We cannot ignore the role that substances play in physical and behavioral health. We need to have the broadest approach to substance use possible, which means addressing substances in all facets of society, especially medical care settings.
We can’t ignore the social aspects of substance use, addiction and treatment
Neuroscientist and social critic Carl Hart brings attention to the need for interventions that better address social environments.
Infographic: Benzodiazepine Use and Medication-Assisted Treatment
Here at IRETA, we’ve been thinking about patient safety in medication-assisted treatment for a number of years, and have more recently zeroed in on the issue of benzodiazepine use among methadone and buprenorphine patients. Patient education about benzodiazepines is key.
Tips for Enhancing a Brief Intervention: Talking about sleep, nutrition, stress and anger
It’s one thing to receive training in the evidence-based practice of Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) and quite another to actually do SBIRT. IRETA offers a spring webinar series on Motivational Interviewing techniques.
Women Have Been Particularly Affected by the War on Drugs, Part II
How can we use what we know about women and the War on Drugs to create real drug policy reform? This is part 2 of “Women Have Been Particularly Affected by the War on Drugs.”
Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project at Work in Pennsylvania
Aided by IRETA, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections develops performance measures for prison mental health services.
Dr. Westley Clark on Overdose
Prevention of prescription drug abuse can start with education about the risk of overdose death.
SLAM is a Recovery High School in the Making
Advocacy continues for a high school in New York City that specifically supports abstinence.
