What in the world was I going to say to this woman to get the patient to open up to me? Patients want to trust that their physicians aren’t judging them or talking about them behind their backs.
IRETA and Our Services
Let’s be sensitive to the messages we hear about pills
Distributing candy pills at a behavioral health conference was a marketing faux pas. We can use it to spark change that will save lives.
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.
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.
IRETA’s Year in Review, 2013
Happy Holidays from all of us at IRETA! “Best Of” lists proliferate this time of year–and we’re jumping wholeheartedly onto the bandwagon. Here, from our staff, are some of the best IRETA moments of 2013.
To improve public health, researchers “program a world”
Agent-based modeling simulates the interaction between people and the environment – and may offer valuable insights about preventing substance use-related harms.
A Message from the Executive Director
“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Health Literacy Has Momentum
As the concept gains traction, how can we use it to think about addiction and substance use?
Community Conversations
IRETA asks local educators and faith leaders: “How could SBIRT help you?” SBIRT is an evidence-based practice used to identify, reduce and prevent problematic substance use.
