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[ 26 Sep 2011 | 7 Comments ]
Recovery Month 2

Recently, SAMHSA hosted the third Twitter chat (#RecoveryChat) in honor of National Recovery Month (Recovery Month). The chat was co-hosted by Dr. H. Westley Clark, director of SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, and Kathryn Power, director of SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services, and focused on recovery definitions, systems of care, and support and evidence that recovery is possible.
Dr. Clark and Kathryn Power provided insight as experts in the field while participants joined from around the country to provide advice, share experiences, and raise awareness of recovery. To …

Featured, Mental Health, Prevention, Substance Use »

[ 22 Sep 2011 | 4 Comments ]
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By Wilma Townsend, Public Healthy Analyst, Center for Mental Health Services
Crossposted from USA.gov Blog
As part of National Recovery Month, National Wellness Week, which runs from September 19-25, highlights ways to live a longer, healthier life if you or someone you know is in recovery from a mental or substance use disorder. People with untreated mental and substance use disorders often die decades earlier than those in the general population.
According to Million Hearts—a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes over the next 5 years—heart disease causes one …

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[ 9 Sep 2011 | 2 Comments ]
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Guest Post: Chuck Ingoglia, Vice President, Public Policy, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
Throughout 2011, states have begun disbursing Medicaid incentive payments to healthcare providers for the meaningful use of health information technology. Among the many providers receiving these payments are several behavioral health organizations, who qualify for the program by having “eligible professionals” (physicians and/or nurse practitioners) on staff.
Grand Lake Mental Health Center in Nowata, Oklahoma – a member of the National Council – was the first behavioral health center in the country to receive incentive payments for its …

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[ 1 Sep 2011 | 15 Comments ]
Risk Ahead

With school starting this week or if its just around the corner, parents and teachers have an important role in protecting young people from abusing prescription drugs. More than 2.1 million teens abused prescription drugs in the United States in 2006.[1] The nonmedical use of prescription psychotherapeutic drugs by youth between the ages of 12 to 17 years was second to marijuana and first among 12 to 13 year olds.[2] Every day, an average of more than 2,500 adolescents, aged 12 to 17, misused a pain reliever for the first …