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Beyond Telehealth: Treatment Brought Straight to Your …

WEBFor now, Front Door Health is a private-payer-only model, but the goal is to prove the efficacy (and cost savings) of the FDH platform. Dean says the company’s data indicate an enormous return on investment—based on clients’ previous engagement with other treatment-related services, such as inpatient and outpatient therapy—that could be …

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Steve Priest’s Spero Health Meets People Where They Are

WEBThe provider’s outpatient addiction treatment centers are reaching underserved rural communities. By Jennifer Taylor. March 24, 2021 After years of healthcare work, including in physician-practice management and kidney care, Steve Priest ended up in the addiction treatment space—specifically, at Spero Health—by accident.. …

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Ascensa’s Suzanne Shaffer: All Are Welcome, Regardless of Insurance

WEBThree decades later, Suzanne Shaffer, M.S., now leads the center, rebranded in 2020 as Ascensa Health. Named president and CEO in 2012, Shaffer has held almost every job possible in the treatment facility, working initially as a volunteer coordinator and then in case management. She later stepped into roles touching nearly …

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Alcohol Use Disorder: The Silent and Common Killer Among Us

WEBThe report no tes that harmful alcohol consumption, such as binge drinking, affects a range of health, social and economic factors. It states that alcohol: Leads to one death every 10 seconds—3 million deaths per year globally. Is a leading risk factor for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cancer, cardiovascular disease and liver

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New Findings on the State of Our Mental Health: “This Is a …

WEBAn important observation from MHA’s findings: 76% of all those screened scored positive or with moderate to severe symptoms of a mental health condition in 2021. Although that figure represents what seems to be a minor increase over 2019 (2%), it merits reframing: More than 3 of every 4 people screened by Mental Health America are …

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Report: America Has a Mental Health Crisis

WEBYouth in particular have been crushed by depression, according to Mental Health America’s data. Mental Health Spotlights. Mental Health America’s report features two spotlights, which the nonprofit describes as “a deeper dive” into its immediate policy priorities: (1) suicide prevention and access to crisis care, and (2) prevention and early …

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Addressing the Transportation Challenge for People in Recovery

WEBA bill passed by the New York State Assembly would address an oft-discussed challenge for people in addiction treatment: barriers to transportation. Recognizing that transit issues represent a large hurdle for many people in recovery from substance use, the bill calls for at least two “supportive demonstration programs,” one in …

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Halcyon Health: Linking Patients to Customized Recovery Care

WEBThe app-based program is laser-focused on developing plans that are tailored to the individual needs of clients. By Jenny Diedrich. Halcyon Health wants to set itself apart from a crowded field of virtual addiction recovery programs by building its patients’ treatment plans around their personalized needs, strengths and weaknesses.. Halcyon’s …

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Nora Volkow Shakes Up the Treatment Community

WEBNora Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), is a psychiatrist and brain imaging specialist by trade—one who has long maintained a well-defined concept of addiction. Which is why her most recent public statement appears to be causing such a fuss. Health Affairs, a peer-reviewed journal covering health policy and

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Kipu Health’s Bold Goal to Save Lives

WEBThe Kipu Patient Portal enables patients to cut through stifling red tape and maintain a healthy recovery path. By Jason Langendorf. Technology in the healthcare and behavioral health fields can take on a range of forms, from robotics and cutting-edge body scans to ingestible monitors and cool medication- or treatment-delivery gadgets that appear to …

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Five Issues to Follow in Addiction in 2022

WEBWith that, here are five issues to follow in addiction and mental health in 2022: 1. The Pandemic Fallout. The pandemic—and everything that comes with it—will continue to hang around in ’22. In the two years since COVID-19 arrived in the U.S., the virus has claimed 825,000 lives, led to 56 million reported positive cases and pushed many

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Ballad Launches Pioneering Family Addiction-Care Model

WEBBallad Health launches Strong Futures to offer new treatment and care to mothers, pregnant women and kids affected by addiction.

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David Baron: Team USA’s Mental Health Resource at the Winter …

WEBThe U.S. Olympic Committee is bringing David Baron, DO, senior vice president and provost at Western University of Health Sciences, to Beijing to serve as Team USA’s sports psychiatrist. He will stay with Team USA in the Olympic Village. Baron has had a long relationship with the Olympics, dating back to the Los Angeles Games in 1984, when he

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Newsweek Ranks Best Addiction Centers in 20 U.S. States

WEBThe highest-ranked facility in the review was Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation ’s center in Center City, Minn., with a score of 97.1%. The care provider’s facilities in Plymouth (94.8) and St. Paul (86.6) were the state’s next-highest-ranked on the list. “Over seven decades, we’ve established a brand that people and families across the

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MIND 24-7 Develops a Retail Concept for Behavioral Health Care

WEBMIND 24-7 provides urgent and crisis mental health care for youth and adults in addition to a short-term intensive outpatient program—all available around the clock and without an appointment. The provider opened its first clinic in September in Phoenix and now has three locations in Arizona, with plans to expand to Las Vegas by this summer and ultimately …

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Colorado’s Blueprint for Better Outcomes

WEBAnd by September 2020, the Blueprint for Reform was set into motion, headed by the Colorado Behavioral Health Task Force. Polis saw an urgent need to address Colorado’s behavioral health crisis. The governor was right to enact his initiative. According to WalletHub, the outlook in the state is bleak.

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We Need to Step Up Care for the IDD Population

WEBAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ), 26% of adults in the U.S. are living with a disability, amounting to 61 million people who need some form of accommodation. Some 8% of the population falls within a range categorized as IDD. For this population, state statutes determine what a disability is—meaning it’s a

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The Inverse Pyramid of Addiction

WEBAll the levels of the inverse ziggurat illustrate how addiction takes its toll on the individual in relation to Maslow’s needs. The Bottom Tier: Inverted Model. The first tier of this pyramid consists of Unhealthy Precedents and Risky Behaviors. Unhealthy Precedents refers to the patterns that disrupt our basic physiological functioning.

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The Workforce Shortage in Addiction Care Reaches a Crisis Stage

WEBBack in 2015, Pew Charitable Trusts spotlighted the problem in a first-of-its-kind “provider availability index” that showed how many behavioral health professionals—psychiatrists, counselors and social workers—were available in each state to treat the estimated 20 million people across the country with a substance use disorder (SUD).The numbers …

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