Bill Davis: Substance abuseSelected studies, reports, articles, major news stories and Internet resources on substance abuse and co-occurring disorders.Building capacity &151; A framework for serving Albertans affected by addiction and mental health issues (Canada)- July 25, 2005 A 54 page report, in PDF format, brought to our attention by CMHAOntario's Mental Health Notes, which describes the report as "a strategy document" which "outlines a provincial framework for service delivery for people with concurrent disorders. The document suggests a strategy of a dynamic, collaborative approach to better help people affected by addiction and mental health issues. A dynamic model allows consumers to enter into the system at any point, and move between service points as their..http://corp.aadac.com/content/corporate/about_aadac/key_initiatives/building_capacity_fram... Less than 1 percent of health plan members are diagnosed with alcohol use disorders- July 21, 2005 AMA press release reprinted at EurekAlert, based on the 2005 eValue8 RFI Initiative, which captures voluntarily reported data from more than 250 health plans nationwide - "Less than 1 percent of health plan members are actually diagnosed with alcoholism or related disorders, according to data from a national performance measurement project released today in New York City at the American Medical Association Media Briefing, Alcohol Dependence: From Science to Solutions. Based on...http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-07/ama-lt1071505.php Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2003: Area Profiles of Drug-Related Mortality- July 20, 2005 Data from the SAMHSA DAWN project - "This is the first publication of mortality data from the new Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN). Virtually every feature of DAWN, except its name, changed in 2003. In this publication, we refer to "new DAWN" to emphasize these differences. The purpose of this publication is to profile the drug-related deaths reported to DAWN by participating medical examiners and coroners (MECs) for 2003. Each metropolitan area or State is presented separately, with...http://dawninfo.samhsa.gov/pubs/mepubs/default.asp NIAAA Issues New Clinician&146;s Guide for Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much- July 20, 2005 I-Newswire press release - "The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has released a new guide for health care practitioners to help them identify and care for patients with heavy drinking and alcohol use disorders. Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much: A Clinician&146;s Guide is now available free online and in print, with a pocket version included."http://i-newswire.com/pr37105.html Trends in Employer-Provided Mental Health and Substance Abuse Benefits- July 18, 2005 Black Enterprise story - "Traditionally, employer-provided coverage for mental disorders and substance abuse treatment has been more restrictive than for other medical care benefits; recent data from the BLS National Compensation Survey show substantive changes in narrowing some of those differences, primarily as a result of State and federally- mandated benefits. Employer-provided mental health coverge has experienced dramatic changes ver the last decade. Prior to the passage of the...http://www.blackenterprise.com/yb/ybopen.asp?section=ybng&story_id=76027937&ID=bla... New Drug Abuse Treatment Shows Promise- July 13, 2005 Science Daily story - "Patients who receive buprenorphine treatment for opioid addiction in an office--based setting are more likely than those receiving methadone treatment to be young men, new to drug use, and with no history of methadone treatment, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Approved for treating heroin and prescription opiate pain killer abuse in 2002, office--based buprenorphine holds the promise of bringing new...http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050710202753.htm SAMHSA Awards $3.4 Million to Vermont to Treat Persons With Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders- July 13, 2005 SAMHSA press release - "The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced a grant award totaling $3.4 million over five years to the state of Vermont to increase the capacity of state treatment systems to provide effective, comprehensive, integrated and evidence-based treatment services to persons with co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders. SAMHSA is awarding the grant to Vermont to stimulate the state to provide accessible, coordinated...http://162.99.3.50/news/newsreleases/050712_cosig_vermont.html New Mexico First in Nation to Consolidate Publicly Funded Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services- July 10, 2005 A Value Options press release at Join Together - "The New Mexico Interagency Behavioral Health Collaborative (Collaborative) with ValueOptions New Mexico today (July 1) highlighted the new behavioral health system of care during a news conference in Albuquerque. Beginning today public mental health and substance abuse services provided andor funded by 15 separate state agencies will be managed through a single Statewide Entity (SE): ValueOptions New Mexico. 'We've come a long way in...http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/alerts/reader/0%2C1854%2C577666%2C00.html US prescription drug abusers top 15 million- study- July 8, 2005 Reuters story at Yahoo - "The number of Americans who admit abusing prescription drugs nearly doubled to over 15 million from 1992 to 2003, with abuse among teens tripling, according to a new study released on Thursday. The report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University suggested that more Americans were abusing controlled prescription drugs than cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants and heroin combined." See also the full report, Under the Counter: The..http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050707/hl_nm/addiction_dc;_ylt=Agh5uprG.HD.Kom9cvmML7zVJRIF;_... |