...PART 2: CONFIDENTIALITY OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE PATIENT RECORDS. Subpart B: General Provisio... in these regulations apply to any information, whether or not recorded, which:. (i) Would identi...
Health services research is a multidisciplinary field that examines ways to organize, manage, finance, and deliver high-quality care. This specialty within substance abuse research developed from policy analyses and needs assessments that shaped federal policy and promoted system development in the 1970s. After the authorization of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), patient information systems supported studies of treatment processes and outcomes. Health services research grew substantially in the 1990s when NIAAA and NIDA moved into the National Institutes of Health, and legislation allocated 15% of their research portfolio to services research. The next decade will emphasize research on quality of care, adopt...
The over prescription of opioid medications -- such as OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet and methadone -- is not only leading to increased overdose rates on those drugs, but also may be leading to an increase in heroin use, according to an annual statewide study of drug trends. The Ohio Substance Abuse Monitoring Network's annual report, which compiles information from eight regions in the state, shows that heroin use has increased in the past six months in Dayton and statewide. The report attributes the spike in part to the wide availability of opioid prescriptions, which often lead to addiction and then heroin use when pills become too expensive.
I have to tell you, that evaluation helped us," said Otter's drug policy chief Debbie Field who, incidentally, asked for the report when she was a legislator. "We weren't managing it wisely. There are still many of those recommendations to improve operations that have not been made. "They'll say, 'I've talked to kids who've used it once and they're not addicted,'" said Georgia Girvan, the director of Boise State's Regional Alcohol Drug Awareness Resource Center, a clearinghouse of information for agencies and individuals looking for information about drug abuse and prevention. Research from the state's Inter-agency Committee on Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment shows that teen meth use is still eclipsed by the oldest poison around: alcohol. "We'll do everything we can do to mak...
Researchers Richard Spoth, director of die Partnerships in Prevention Science Institute at Iowa State, and colleague Max Guyll told attendees at the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime/World Health Organization meeting in December that studies of PPSI's Iowa Strengthening Families Program (ISFP) and Life Skills Training Program (LST) demonstrated significant cost benefits. (BJS) To order see www.ncjrs.gov/App/shoppingcart/ShopCart. aspx?item=NCJ2243908repro=0 Prisoner Reentry Collaborations Reentry Partnerships: A Guide for States & Faith-Based and Community Organizations (NCJ 224916, 66 pp.) provides recommendations on how state government officials and community-based service providers can help individuals released from prisons and jails each year to successfully rejoin their communit...
...Every dollar invested in substance-abuse prevention yields $10 in savings, according to res... the corrections field with up-to-date information on developing and practicing environmentally frien...
Last year, state legislators approved a package of bills aimed at making a dent in West Virginia's prescription drug abuse epidemic. Among other things, the new laws toughened penalties for using false information to get a prescription, and will eventually make health providers write all prescriptions on tamper-proof pads.
ATLANTA, Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) today opened its 2011 Educational Conference . The conference, Oct. 19-21, draws managed care pharmacy professionals from across the country and features a wide range of programs and activities, including educational sessions, interactive roundtable discussions, general sessions, student pharmacist programming, networking events and other activities focused on advancing the profession of managed care pharmacy. The conference's 30 educational sessions include topics on health information technology, drug benefit designs, medication adherence, drug pricing and reimbursement issues, fraud, waste & abuse, and the drug pipeline.
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